The good old plod, just doing their job.... Anyone else sick of the police, who are in the same boat as the rest of us, but continue to do the dirty work. Traitors. Why don't you guys get some balls and educate yourselves and stand back and observe, instead of being on the side of Vodafone. Lets face it, police pensions have taken the hit like everyone else and it's because of the likes of these tax dodgers that this has happened. There is a big club and you an i are not in the big club.
Vodophone enjoy the societal safety benefits paid for by other (thereby disadvantaged) companies that pay UK corporation tax, but do not pay fully themselves! This is anti-competitive parasitism, a killer & predatory intentional loophole in EC law.
Answer: wealth or asset tax (WT) to be paid by corporations deductible from corporation tax (CT) though complexly.
For Vodolike example:
£6billion Wealth Tax deductible from £6 billion CT = £0 to pay.
Another reason to be angry at vodaphone: they obviously didn't pay enough for the right to use British airwaves (the right to this use being sold to them by the government). If they had paid the real market value, they wouldn't be making the obscene profits they currently are - and all for a business that has very little in the way of overheads. We were robbed by our own government - as usual.
Also, regarding George Osborne lower the corporation tax, it was done to try and encourage companies to stay in the UK, after all if you were a business and you could either have your offices in the UK and pay a fortune or move abroad into an emerging market and pay no or very little tax which would you choose??
Another example of people who have no idea about how businesses work.
Sorry just watched the whole video, a couple more things I picked up on.
Vodafone HAVE paid tax, the video implies they haven’t paid any.
The video also says they should pay "their fair share", well technically speaking they pay a MUCH higher percentage tax than all the protesters there do, so doesn’t that mean that the protesters should technically pay more tax, after all if they’re so concerned why don’t they dig a little deeper?
I'm sorry I have to pick up on one blatant error the commentator made in that video.
At the beginning she says "Tax evasion" actually what Vodafone is doing is "Tax avoidance" which is perfectly legal (whether morally right or wrong is a separate thing). Just thought I'd point out your mistake.
@eastielover As a technical term, you could be right (although recent resignations suggest something dodgy was going on). In any other sense, you're wrong. Vodafone evades paying its tax. Most people would call that tax evasion. Companies like this simply do deals with the Treasury, paying whatever they like. They don't pay the tax that they owe. Little people like me can't do deals with the Treasury whether we want to or not.
@spicealbert He's not right btw. @eastielover The were found to be evading tax by trying to pay it in Luxembourg(at a cheaper rate). They even asked HMRC if it was OK to do this. They said no. Vodafone took the risk and did it anyway. Whether or not Vodafone evaded tax is not in dispute. They did. The only murky part of it is by how much they tried to evade.
@nowthatsinteresting1 Wow-what wonderful propaganda. Don't think that you can hide behind your Vodafone sortie. UK Uncut was responsible for those riots and property destruction. There's nothing wrong with protest but now you're practically advocating violence.
At 1:46, "We're physically stopping them". That's not the right way to bring about change. And you're blaming this on George Osborne? Why? It was Labour who got the UK into the mess. BTW Miliband admitted Labour was out of touch.
@1221doowesor What IS the right way to bring about change. We've voted Labour, we've voted Tory and Lib Dem - no change. If there is no change and people want change, violence will erupt. You can't pretend history doesn't show that. Violence is bad - but state violence exists, too. We see the state committing acts of vile aggression - no surprise if someone throws the odd rock on the street.
If I was a pub owner, i would not let the local alcoholic run up a bar tab. I would either throw him out of the pub or get somebody to kick the shit out of him until he coughed up what he owed.
Unfortunately (in this country) the Local alcoholic is owed a favours by the Pub owner and the pub owner doesn't want to upset his favourite customer. The local alcoholic keeps threatening to go to another pub, but everyone with a half a brain knows that he is bluffing.....
@TheSimonsalmon he actually said "The fat cats they rob all money, that's the point. I've been sacked in 2008 in this city and left with 70 pounds". Please get your ears checked, or learn the Queen's English? He stated that his employer left him with 70 pounds. I did not hear him discuss his bank balance, nor assets, did you? Also within the European Union, Europeans can work and travel freely. If you were educated and not a mindless bigot you would realize this before commenting : )
You people play into the hands of politicians, you spoil the hard work 250,000 people done to get there massage to British nation. click Justice party UK.
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) did indeed list a series of weaknesses on the supply side of the UK economy, including a FAILURE TO COLLECT MORE THAN 60 PER CENT OF TAX REVENUES – one of the worst records in the developed world – and shortcomings in education, housing, planning and environmental policy.(The Independent 17/03/11).
The public sector is so bloated, it needs the tax revenue to pay for useless quango's and execs on way too much money.
Public sector needs shrinking drastically to encourage private entrepreneurs/business to employ more people.
Don't rely on the state for employment or we get shafted our selves with huge tax bills. We are already paying up to 70% of our income to Government agencies, when will people be happy? When they have 100% of your income and employ you at the same time? Madness.
Whether you believe the tax calculations of people that aren't numerically competent and economically challenged like ukuncut are, is one thing, another perspective is that if vodafone paid more tax, there would less money for pensioners who rely on there vodafone income along with other companies to pay there retirement. You don't have to worry about such things if your a public servant because you get a gold plated pension whatever the state of the economy now that's unfair.
@SuperGmarks Are you aware of tetra pack moving their British production to Switzerland ,now the owner of tetra pak only employs 2 people in Britain,the tax that they avoid paying is 90 million pa.
That tax would pay the wages of 4500 nurses.
Why would the rich move abroad when we are so keen to allow them not to pay their way
if we followed WeAreTheBritish perspective, vodafone would simply move base to less costly tax country, and theres plenty of them around. altho it doesn't suit your unrealistic world view.
What we need is less tax to encourage business to set up, and reduce the dependent society that labour depend on for their votes.
We be able to keep all those front line services you demand if Public service wasn't so wasteful. 5/7 of Public service expenditure is not on frontline services. yet all the administrators & political appointees keep their jobs while nurses, bobbies etc. get sacked - makes vodafone insignificant.
I worked in a Vodafone store for over 4 years. I have seen how it is run from the inside. It is so inefficient, and some of the executive decisions can only be described as uneducated and downright stupid. I completely agree with these protesters. The fact that we are told that we 'need' to cut important services, while at the same time allowing rich corporations to get away with criminal amounts of unpaid tax is nothing short of kleptocracy. These protests give me hope.
i got court soon for not paying council tax i owe 1000 pounds they said i can pay in 14 days or go for being bankrupt im hoping the goverment will let me off tax to i wonder if vodafone was told pay in 14 days or go bankrupt
Don't get me wrong, i support this idea but when in the video it says that cuts to ethnic minorities, it sounds a bit dodgy to me (i don't get special payments for being black although if i'm missing out, hook a brother up) (comments at 1.55)
@nowthatsinteresting1 No, you dont pay more if they dont pay taxes, you pay the same thing, because the tax they used to pay...then pass on to you, you now pay directly - instead of handing it to them, who they in turn hand it to the government. You can call them corporate "individuals" all you want, but they get to hand down their tax burden to you and I via increased item costs. Its a hidden tax on us... I simply ask that we quit playing games and let people know what they are paying overall.
NO ! .. don't just boycott vodaphone .. STOP using it altogether along with All the companies that it trades with and All companies that promote vodaphone.
TV channels, Practically all lifestyle magazines, Cinemas, Bus/coach services .. and anywhere else you come across a connection or association to vodaphone.
This takes committment and is non violent. There is no way we will ever see a piece of the 6bn. So, do what you can, to shut them down in an intellegent and non violent way.
Police Protect the Corporations but not the people ....... why was the shutter remaining 2/3 down ...... was it to show how stupid the demos are or to show how caring the police are as they shouted "we are only trying to protect you" as they dragged demos out from under it. OH, why not fully open the shutter.... Was it mysteriously jammed at that point ...... have a good look.
3 vodafone workers didn't like this video? what a fucking shame! I hope these bastards will pay up the tax, but sadly the tax will only go to the elites and to fighting wars in the middle-east....it's a lose-lose situation for us the citizens....
I wouldn't worry about staff at these shops being out of pocket. Vodafone Group has more than enuf money to pay. There doing quite well I'd say goo DOT gl FORWARDSLASH NHmXv
God people are retarded about economics. Businesses don't PAY taxes, they COLLECT taxes and pass them on to consumers. It goes into the cost of the product just as much as any other component. All corporate and business taxes are, are a stealth tax on the individual. It's only the individual that ultimately suffers. They should be done away with so people can see the full amount of taxation they pay directly, without tricks like this.
@cosmicv1 That's one way to look at it. The other way it that when anyone earns money, they pay tax, because of the services they use. Corporations have the legal status of invididuals and so have to pay tax on their earnings - we're not talking about VAT here. If we adopt your view, corporations pay no tax and us normal people pay more. The underlying theme here is that companies think they can evade their fiscal duties and the rest of us certainly can't.
oh and has anyone asked the obviously over-priveledged narrator if her daddy's business has avoided the tax man at some point this year? im always speaking to small and medium business leaders who have a big house, drive a posh car and boast about ways in which they didnt declare some sort of taxable income. it gives me a headache to be honest. Maybe you should check that with daddy first, love?
STUPID IDIOTS! where is the evidence that vodafone has not piad tax or used loopholes in the system? NOWHERE! This is blatently some disillusioned students hopping on a non-existent band wagon. Its also unfair on the staff working in those stores, they earn commission, they pay income tax on their salaries and that commission, which subsidises these students' education...so why prevent them from doing their job and forcing a store to close? go bark up a different tree losers!
@scattyscott0988 Well yeah actually there is alot of evidence, vodafone were taken to court several times over the matter and lost, they were on the ropes ready to pay until the government decided to let them off, Peoples views may differ from mine on this but I would never work for a company that rips off the country for 6bn and I have no respect for anyone that does,
@scattyscott0988 oh and yeah I do understand that there income tax helps to pay for universities but I also pay tax, probably a lot more than a vodafone shop assistant and I understand that I pay tax for our universities so that the working class of this country can get a good education and not just the rich elite. And before you label me as student, Ive never been to uni, Im an honest tradesmen and I had to pay for my college course myself
This really makes me sick, how can a company be let off paying 6 billion in taxes!! The tory scum yet again favouring the rich. You don't see the government letting us off without paying, why are vodaphone/philip green any different?...oh i forgot they're billionaires! my bad
How come the usual idiotic commentators aren't making ad hominem attacks on the protesters because some of them have beards? The hirsute police putting them off?
@tomtaylor1: The bonus payments to bankers should be taxed at 90% at least. It was their irresponsible loans gambling, which lead to the taxpayer funded bailout. This caused the borrowing, which the tories use to excuse these cuts in public spending! The low tax rate on bankers bonus payments encourages them to make badly secured loans.
@studentnewscom I wasn't offended in the slightest thanks, I was merely trying to steer the discussion away from the one sided bashing you comprehensively gave it in your multiple posts. For future reference, brake in the context you may or may not have been implying is spelt "B-r-e-a-k". Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this was a peaceful protest... Thanks to whoever exclaimed "This peaceful protest is being disrupted by police violence", he is the real hero in this clip.
To day we observe the stupidity of the masses, there is a urban myth that Vodafone need to pay 6bn in tax. This is untrue. £1.2bn was the tax bill and Vodafone was willing to pay 2.2. Yet the socialist, the communists, the “oh so opinionated” students and tree huggers and not forgetting the humble anarchists are all getting out of bed nice and early to protest and come sit Vodafone stores and have a jolly chat about it all. Undoubtedly they will try to brake something as well.
@studentnewscom ROFL. students, "tree huggers", communists.. all one in the same eh? i can only hope you're having a laugh by throwing these vague classifications into one big homogenous lump as if environmentalism is now somehow synonymous with being a red. your rant (rounded off perfectly with your concern over things being broken - oh noes!) makes you sound like some sort of rebel-fearing guardian of corporate greed. v. strange indeed!
@monogirl3 you made me smile,and if im honest a little giggle came out. Better than the dude below who just made me confused by missing the point altogether, my rant being nothing to do with me burning the queen face that was mealy a outrageous capitalist one finger salute to all my friends in Tree huggers alliance. As for my homogenous lumping im sure the environmentalist wont be to offended, if they are, I will make a special effort to hug a Polar-bear the next time I see one.
@studentnewscom vodafone bought Mannesmann via a Luxembourg holding company to avoid tax charges that it would incurre .it many be a legal loop hole it does not make it right or ethical or remotely fair. 18 billion euros in profit was payed into the Luxembourg company by vodafone and thats where your 6 billion tax doge comes from. no myth just mathematics.why would any one in the right mind would want to defend them.hell boy i have some vodafone shares and i think its shitty.
@studentnewscom further more ,the main reason vodfone got out of its 2.2 billion bill is because of John Connors who up until vodaphone pouched him worked for..... dun dun daa HRMC negotiation vodafones tax bill .shenanigans?to fuckin right .and you have the cheek to call the people who got of there ass hand hold vodefone to account stupid.honestly son i dont know you i wouldn't call you stupid ,but your not much of a human being and
Its amusing how in this video the above named groups get the police on side by saying the police will be missing out on there shear of the 6billion suggesting that the above groups are also hypocrites because in the next sentence there shouting about police brutality. There’s nothing I enjoy more than hypocrisy. I digress, where was i...oh yes, Get over your selves and stop for gods sake believing anything you see or read.
Its ridiculous, everyone you can see in video, and indeed if your one of them reading this, CHECK YOUR SOURCE! Who told you that Vodafone was dogiing tax? Your mate? The news? Or did you do research in to Vodafone tax records...I’m assuming the first two are more likely. Clearly today you have shown how stupid you are but there’s always tomorrow.
Also “you and i films” are putting a total spin on the whole story listen to the language used, the editing is sensationalist, the little interviews (vox pops) are absurd and one sided-“media for a better world”? Yer right, again hypocrisy is thick in the air. Either way my day will be fun, and tonight as I light my Cigar with a £20pound note just after Iv ate some goose I'll reflect on what was a good day to day was. Viva la Vodafone!
@studentnewscom RE: "...Either way my day will be fun, and tonight as I light my Cigar with a £20pound note just after Iv ate some goose I'll reflect on what was a good day to day was. Viva la Vodafone!
studentnewscom 18 hours ago"
Viva la ignorancé. Keep wasting the resources available to society and see how things turn out for you mate. What gives you the right to burn the Queen's head and waste £20GBP to light up a thick expensive cigar when you can still buy a box of matches for 10p?
what a silly protest, wtf vodafone has to do with welfare? it's the government who is spending the money, not them. Why you're not protesting against too generous welfare instead?
Does anyone know what this group is? I would like to join them. We need to be more like the French in this country and stop sitting in our front rooms and not doing anything about this sort of thing.
Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao,trousered £2.66m in salary and bonus, up from £2.26m in the previous year, as his bonus jumped from £881,000 to £1.25m.
Vodafone chief financial officer Andy Halford pocketed £1.73m for the year to the end of March 2010, up from £1.5m.
The head of Vodafone's European region, Michel Combes, received pay and bonus of £1.8m and group technology officer Stephen Pusey £1.3m.(Guardian).
Directors of FTSE 100 companies saw their total earnings soar an average of 55 per cent during the past year, prompting fresh calls from politicians for executive pay restraint.The findings are from Incomes Data Services, the pay monitoring group.
a cheaply made film from a tiny struggling south london outfit that specialises in trying to cover student protests ignored by main stream media
highlights the fact that the only people demonstrating were dumbed down and easily led blair era students - none of whom understand tax law and corporate finance
@WeAreTheBritish you are a traitor to your fellow briton and would prefer the brits to be unemployed rather than the people at vodaphone to pay there taxes.
THANKS TRAITOR
YOU DONT NEED A PHD IN SOCIAL STUDIES TO KNOW WHEN YOU ARE BEING MUGGED.
Are you aware the torys and labour conspire when it comes to robbing us
@tjwright55 Doesn't sound like you're a very bright person. If you sit tight and do nothing about this sort of thing then things will get a whole lot worse.
@vanderrhuc ha and sitting on a bike outside vodafone and stopping people from buying a phone will make it a whoooole lot better won't it. Why on earth are these twats so rude to the police too? It's a joke. I agree if vodafone have done something so seriously wrong and it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt then something should be done. However, getting a load of unemployed or worthless students to go and chant shit outside a shop is not the best or most effective course of action at all
bunch of stupid jobsworths and foreigners. Tax avoidance is not illegal whatever you might think. You know google pay 2% tax in every country they operate in. Nothing wrong with it.
@tjwright55- try and think beyond fears ego, insecurities and what the television Programmes you with!
even better still do some research- treaty 1213 and verona! did you know america is a corporation owned by britain?
tell me who said n wot their connection is to it all- "I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply."
@VATICANCREATEDISLAM Since I don't watch TV that is a massively false statement. You are delusional. What has Hitler got to do with Vodafone and tax avoidance which again is not illegal and so so very far from uncommon
Today I changed my mobile phone provider from Vodafone to a reputable U.K. company,which does not wash it's profits through an offshore company to avoid tax.
50,000 or 100,000 or more of us doing this would make this issue very difficult for business & politicians to ignore.
@2LisbonTreaty today I changed my contract to vodafone. They give me discount. If you think every big company does not use measures of tax avoidance then you are so so so naive
@tjwright55 Tax avoidance can be legal. Tax evasion is not, as the Govt.of India have informed Vodafone, which lost it's appeal against a £1.6 billion tax bill there.
I also was given a discount by a U.K. competitor to Vodafone when I changed my account.
@WATBYou are probably from a dysfunctional home in an impoverished part of Scotland. With no prospects you drifted into the army to be indoctrinated with 'off the shelf' imperialism. You hide your shameful roots beneath regurgitated fanaticism and yearn to be part of the section of society whose interests this government sets out to protect, but it is apparent you are one of those sadly deluded members of the majority whose votes were necessary to this government to be elected. You sucker!
Our Government LIE to us yet they are not held to account because the people will not act with their VOTE, the only voters are the people who believe their shit.
If anyone reads the profile of a prolific commenter on this video, he states that the British should 'take themselves back' or something. Goes on to state he doesn't like EU products, Lists his favourite composers (all European, non British). Films (all financed by the US or mostly filmed there - ATTN nitpickers don't bother) and lists one of his favourite books as a British book which towards the end is largely allegorical to capitalism. Only other things that are British are the Rock bands!
Vodafone passed my alleged debt to them of £70.63 to Lowell Portfolio for a song, perhaps we could just ring up one of those DCA's and present them with stupid letters with lots of zero's on them.
For years now, Vodafone has been refusing to pay billions of pounds of taxes to the British people that are outstanding. The company – which has doubled its profits during this recession – engaged in all kinds of accounting twists and turns, but it was eventually ruled this refusal breached anti-tax avoidance rules. They looked set to pay a sum Private Eye calculates to be more than £6bn.
Why to go! The people MUST raise! I hope the Boiled Frogs Nations, f.k.a. as Americans would finally move their fat assess and start protesting the raping and pillaging of their own country.
@4:43. are the police there to protect a store that doesnt need protecting...OR are they joining in. Its money from there pockets and there jobs that are going to go, if every large corporation buys off the govenment.
I am shocked and saddend by those who responded to this short film in such an ill informed, un supportive way. I worked as an executive for Vodafone along with Singlepoint 4u Ltd. Singlepoint got away with charging VAT on international calls when non was due and effectively laughed at all you stupid customers... Vodafone is doing the same and no matter what you think about the protesters the cuts will effect you from Judges right the way down to road sweepers, keep laughing.. your next!
Great article from todays Independant - Johann Hari : Protest works. Just look at the proof - "Yes, you can choose to do nothing. But you will be choosing to let yourself and your family and your country be ripped off."
"There’s a mood that we have been stitched up by forces more powerful and devious than us, and all we can do is sit back and be shafted.
This mood is wrong. It doesn’t have to be this way – if enough of us act to stop it."
2:25 ish police man hitting someone... only a little hit but if it was the other way round that person hitting the police it wouldn't be allowed would it.
Look, either put up or shut. This country was sold down the river a long, LONG time ago. The police own you, the police are owned by the government, the government is own by corporations, corporations are owned by the banking elite and royal class who all hate your f***king guts and want you dead. So either you stop funding the machine, exposed the new world order, remove all your money from your bank, leave your job and get Britain out of the EU. S**t will stay the same. Peace!
Oh Yeah it's already started and I'm a Happy Camper with these bunch of Clowns posing as police men. Let this be a lesson to you folks in America when the Government has confiscated all their weapons and push you around like a bunch of grown up children. Get GUNS....The rest is up to you. They will rob you all until you can no longer support yourself and then KILL YOU DEAD. Time has come to do unto THEM AS THEY WOULD DO UNTO YOU BLOKES.
you know the government are thieving corrupt conmen,they give the bankers billions when its the banks who got the country in this mess to start with,yet who are the government targeting the most,thats right people on benefits the poorest in our country,vodaphone are just the same as any other big company,fucking horrible thieving bastards,if the government gave the billions to the public the recession would have ended overnight
Don't the police in this video understand that it's their jobs on the line here, since police funding has been slashed, and companies like Vodafone are directly to blame? Why are they supporting them?
@WeAreTheBritish - Wow, well done - It must have taken you a few hours to come up with that - But I guess Organisations like The Private Eye (BRITAIN’S £6BN VODAFONE BILL - First published in Private Eye 1273, 3-16 Sept, 2010), The Guardian, This is Money as well as The Telegraph reporting on Vodafones £1.6bn Indian tax bill, starts alarm bells and raises concerns.But Hey if you would rather support Welfare,Education and Housing cuts than look at alternatives then please feel free to explain it.
Just an update, cross border tax is unlawful and illegal, but am sure you know that. So your up for the corruption?
Going by your name your one of the "Very Highly paid" bnp, or other associated scum, that are makeing a profit from others ppls grief.
As for the small out fit, its getting bigger and bigger in so many ways, and the ideology ppl like you encourage is getting closer to a prison cell. Enjoy your mental squalor, cell time soon. : )
@youandifilms You got me on the knowledge front. Well played sir. However, i have to ask, do you think it's OK for Vodaphone and the government to allow such an injustice? Especially in the time we live in right now?
I'm afraid it's you who is ill informed. Good on those protestors. How dare you call yourself WeAreTheBritish. Maybe you should stand up for your fellow countrymen if you think you are British.
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dhirun4 2 months ago
Eastielover is a government spy.
Joonagoona 2 months ago
I keep seeing the number 107. Why? What does it mean?
duckbiter 2 months ago
Good work guys! UKUncut are my heroes of 2011!
hennimore1 2 months ago
The good old plod, just doing their job.... Anyone else sick of the police, who are in the same boat as the rest of us, but continue to do the dirty work. Traitors. Why don't you guys get some balls and educate yourselves and stand back and observe, instead of being on the side of Vodafone. Lets face it, police pensions have taken the hit like everyone else and it's because of the likes of these tax dodgers that this has happened. There is a big club and you an i are not in the big club.
park3r7 2 months ago
Vodophone enjoy the societal safety benefits paid for by other (thereby disadvantaged) companies that pay UK corporation tax, but do not pay fully themselves! This is anti-competitive parasitism, a killer & predatory intentional loophole in EC law.
Answer: wealth or asset tax (WT) to be paid by corporations deductible from corporation tax (CT) though complexly.
For Vodolike example:
£6billion Wealth Tax deductible from £6 billion CT = £0 to pay.
£6 billion WT from £10 CT = £6 billion to pay.
cloudbusterman 4 months ago
Another reason to be angry at vodaphone: they obviously didn't pay enough for the right to use British airwaves (the right to this use being sold to them by the government). If they had paid the real market value, they wouldn't be making the obscene profits they currently are - and all for a business that has very little in the way of overheads. We were robbed by our own government - as usual.
nowthatsinteresting1 5 months ago
A made up figure as an excuse for any unemployed bums to 'protest'. If they got a job and paid taxes there wouldn't be an issue
pharrison0072010 6 months ago
The old lady at 1:45 has got it spot on!
morrismagic08 6 months ago
@WhyPoliceLove
Oh come on!
I am more than willing to have a grown up debate with you but calling them "murders and thieves" is truly ridiculous!
eastielover 7 months ago
Also, regarding George Osborne lower the corporation tax, it was done to try and encourage companies to stay in the UK, after all if you were a business and you could either have your offices in the UK and pay a fortune or move abroad into an emerging market and pay no or very little tax which would you choose??
Another example of people who have no idea about how businesses work.
eastielover 7 months ago
Sorry just watched the whole video, a couple more things I picked up on.
Vodafone HAVE paid tax, the video implies they haven’t paid any.
The video also says they should pay "their fair share", well technically speaking they pay a MUCH higher percentage tax than all the protesters there do, so doesn’t that mean that the protesters should technically pay more tax, after all if they’re so concerned why don’t they dig a little deeper?
eastielover 7 months ago
I'm sorry I have to pick up on one blatant error the commentator made in that video.
At the beginning she says "Tax evasion" actually what Vodafone is doing is "Tax avoidance" which is perfectly legal (whether morally right or wrong is a separate thing). Just thought I'd point out your mistake.
eastielover 7 months ago
@eastielover As a technical term, you could be right (although recent resignations suggest something dodgy was going on). In any other sense, you're wrong. Vodafone evades paying its tax. Most people would call that tax evasion. Companies like this simply do deals with the Treasury, paying whatever they like. They don't pay the tax that they owe. Little people like me can't do deals with the Treasury whether we want to or not.
spicealbert 2 months ago
@spicealbert He's not right btw. @eastielover The were found to be evading tax by trying to pay it in Luxembourg(at a cheaper rate). They even asked HMRC if it was OK to do this. They said no. Vodafone took the risk and did it anyway. Whether or not Vodafone evaded tax is not in dispute. They did. The only murky part of it is by how much they tried to evade.
fronswa 2 months ago
'Doctors, police, general public owe us money.'
You sir, were a member of the general public. fucking nonce.
appleobsessive 8 months ago
Check your upgrade bill this company will charge you as much as 80% on top of your bill for a renewal – rip off
hertscountynews 10 months ago
well dont vote the torries for the next election. same old torries. make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
OblongTeaFilms 10 months ago
Well it's a protest - I support ANY protest!
nowthatsinteresting1 10 months ago
@nowthatsinteresting1 Wow-what wonderful propaganda. Don't think that you can hide behind your Vodafone sortie. UK Uncut was responsible for those riots and property destruction. There's nothing wrong with protest but now you're practically advocating violence.
At 1:46, "We're physically stopping them". That's not the right way to bring about change. And you're blaming this on George Osborne? Why? It was Labour who got the UK into the mess. BTW Miliband admitted Labour was out of touch.
1221doowesor 8 months ago
@1221doowesor What IS the right way to bring about change. We've voted Labour, we've voted Tory and Lib Dem - no change. If there is no change and people want change, violence will erupt. You can't pretend history doesn't show that. Violence is bad - but state violence exists, too. We see the state committing acts of vile aggression - no surprise if someone throws the odd rock on the street.
nowthatsinteresting1 8 months ago
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Great video
Make sure you check out Broken Dialect - Song From the Heart
An amazing hip hop video filmed at the massive demonstration against the cuts in London 26/03/11
viva la revolution!
kingmonkey69 10 months ago
If I was a pub owner, i would not let the local alcoholic run up a bar tab. I would either throw him out of the pub or get somebody to kick the shit out of him until he coughed up what he owed.
Unfortunately (in this country) the Local alcoholic is owed a favours by the Pub owner and the pub owner doesn't want to upset his favourite customer. The local alcoholic keeps threatening to go to another pub, but everyone with a half a brain knows that he is bluffing.....
capitalistbotherer 11 months ago
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"The fatcat's, the rob all money, i've been sacked and left with 70 pounds"
Well then try saving money when employed? Not too complicated. Also if you aren't a UK citizen perhaps that's your cue to go home.
TheSimonsalmon 11 months ago
The fatcat's, the rob all money, i've been sacked and left with 70 pounds"
Well then try saving money when employed? Not too complicated. Also if you aren't a UK citizen perhaps that's your cue to go home.
TheSimonsalmon 11 months ago
@TheSimonsalmon he actually said "The fat cats they rob all money, that's the point. I've been sacked in 2008 in this city and left with 70 pounds". Please get your ears checked, or learn the Queen's English? He stated that his employer left him with 70 pounds. I did not hear him discuss his bank balance, nor assets, did you? Also within the European Union, Europeans can work and travel freely. If you were educated and not a mindless bigot you would realize this before commenting : )
les1chercheur 7 months ago
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TheSimonsalmon 11 months ago
I agree with this protest. Well done.
Chelseacasual 11 months ago
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You people play into the hands of politicians, you spoil the hard work 250,000 people done to get there massage to British nation. click Justice party UK.
justicepartyuk 11 months ago
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) did indeed list a series of weaknesses on the supply side of the UK economy, including a FAILURE TO COLLECT MORE THAN 60 PER CENT OF TAX REVENUES – one of the worst records in the developed world – and shortcomings in education, housing, planning and environmental policy.(The Independent 17/03/11).
2LisbonTreaty 11 months ago
The public sector is so bloated, it needs the tax revenue to pay for useless quango's and execs on way too much money.
Public sector needs shrinking drastically to encourage private entrepreneurs/business to employ more people.
Don't rely on the state for employment or we get shafted our selves with huge tax bills. We are already paying up to 70% of our income to Government agencies, when will people be happy? When they have 100% of your income and employ you at the same time? Madness.
wobbers99 1 year ago
Whether you believe the tax calculations of people that aren't numerically competent and economically challenged like ukuncut are, is one thing, another perspective is that if vodafone paid more tax, there would less money for pensioners who rely on there vodafone income along with other companies to pay there retirement. You don't have to worry about such things if your a public servant because you get a gold plated pension whatever the state of the economy now that's unfair.
SuperGmarks 1 year ago
@SuperGmarks Are you aware of tetra pack moving their British production to Switzerland ,now the owner of tetra pak only employs 2 people in Britain,the tax that they avoid paying is 90 million pa.
That tax would pay the wages of 4500 nurses.
Why would the rich move abroad when we are so keen to allow them not to pay their way
portsanity 1 year ago
if we followed WeAreTheBritish perspective, vodafone would simply move base to less costly tax country, and theres plenty of them around. altho it doesn't suit your unrealistic world view.
What we need is less tax to encourage business to set up, and reduce the dependent society that labour depend on for their votes.
SuperGmarks 1 year ago
We be able to keep all those front line services you demand if Public service wasn't so wasteful. 5/7 of Public service expenditure is not on frontline services. yet all the administrators & political appointees keep their jobs while nurses, bobbies etc. get sacked - makes vodafone insignificant.
Why aren't you protesting against that waste?
SuperGmarks 1 year ago
The big companies are protected by the pigs and we can fock off.
people wake up!
steadystef36 1 year ago
brilliant!
y08grants 1 year ago
I worked in a Vodafone store for over 4 years. I have seen how it is run from the inside. It is so inefficient, and some of the executive decisions can only be described as uneducated and downright stupid. I completely agree with these protesters. The fact that we are told that we 'need' to cut important services, while at the same time allowing rich corporations to get away with criminal amounts of unpaid tax is nothing short of kleptocracy. These protests give me hope.
Slossius1983 1 year ago
i got court soon for not paying council tax i owe 1000 pounds they said i can pay in 14 days or go for being bankrupt im hoping the goverment will let me off tax to i wonder if vodafone was told pay in 14 days or go bankrupt
butchd2010 1 year ago
Good for the people who did this. I salute you.
flybynight420 1 year ago
Don't get me wrong, i support this idea but when in the video it says that cuts to ethnic minorities, it sounds a bit dodgy to me (i don't get special payments for being black although if i'm missing out, hook a brother up) (comments at 1.55)
jiinxbeats 1 year ago
@nowthatsinteresting1 No, you dont pay more if they dont pay taxes, you pay the same thing, because the tax they used to pay...then pass on to you, you now pay directly - instead of handing it to them, who they in turn hand it to the government. You can call them corporate "individuals" all you want, but they get to hand down their tax burden to you and I via increased item costs. Its a hidden tax on us... I simply ask that we quit playing games and let people know what they are paying overall.
cosmicv1 1 year ago
Is there a list of companies that dodge paying UK tax, so I can boycott them?
I'll join the next demo in London.
RememberToday4ever 1 year ago
@RememberToday4ever It's almost all of them - lets do it!
nowthatsinteresting1 1 year ago
NO ! .. don't just boycott vodaphone .. STOP using it altogether along with All the companies that it trades with and All companies that promote vodaphone.
TV channels, Practically all lifestyle magazines, Cinemas, Bus/coach services .. and anywhere else you come across a connection or association to vodaphone.
This takes committment and is non violent. There is no way we will ever see a piece of the 6bn. So, do what you can, to shut them down in an intellegent and non violent way.
lallybaba1 1 year ago
Police Protect the Corporations but not the people ....... why was the shutter remaining 2/3 down ...... was it to show how stupid the demos are or to show how caring the police are as they shouted "we are only trying to protect you" as they dragged demos out from under it. OH, why not fully open the shutter.... Was it mysteriously jammed at that point ...... have a good look.
lallybaba1 1 year ago
burn the bankers
ufewl 1 year ago
3 vodafone workers didn't like this video? what a fucking shame! I hope these bastards will pay up the tax, but sadly the tax will only go to the elites and to fighting wars in the middle-east....it's a lose-lose situation for us the citizens....
mmaghfai 1 year ago
start killing the elites , thats the only way to stop it !!!!
Barbitua 1 year ago
If they really care about not wasting money, they should demonstrate against the mass-immigration from the 3rd-world.
Chrijz 1 year ago
I wouldn't worry about staff at these shops being out of pocket. Vodafone Group has more than enuf money to pay. There doing quite well I'd say goo DOT gl FORWARDSLASH NHmXv
johnvile 1 year ago
God people are retarded about economics. Businesses don't PAY taxes, they COLLECT taxes and pass them on to consumers. It goes into the cost of the product just as much as any other component. All corporate and business taxes are, are a stealth tax on the individual. It's only the individual that ultimately suffers. They should be done away with so people can see the full amount of taxation they pay directly, without tricks like this.
cosmicv1 1 year ago
@cosmicv1 That's one way to look at it. The other way it that when anyone earns money, they pay tax, because of the services they use. Corporations have the legal status of invididuals and so have to pay tax on their earnings - we're not talking about VAT here. If we adopt your view, corporations pay no tax and us normal people pay more. The underlying theme here is that companies think they can evade their fiscal duties and the rest of us certainly can't.
nowthatsinteresting1 1 year ago
oh and has anyone asked the obviously over-priveledged narrator if her daddy's business has avoided the tax man at some point this year? im always speaking to small and medium business leaders who have a big house, drive a posh car and boast about ways in which they didnt declare some sort of taxable income. it gives me a headache to be honest. Maybe you should check that with daddy first, love?
scattyscott0988 1 year ago
STUPID IDIOTS! where is the evidence that vodafone has not piad tax or used loopholes in the system? NOWHERE! This is blatently some disillusioned students hopping on a non-existent band wagon. Its also unfair on the staff working in those stores, they earn commission, they pay income tax on their salaries and that commission, which subsidises these students' education...so why prevent them from doing their job and forcing a store to close? go bark up a different tree losers!
scattyscott0988 1 year ago
@scattyscott0988 Well yeah actually there is alot of evidence, vodafone were taken to court several times over the matter and lost, they were on the ropes ready to pay until the government decided to let them off, Peoples views may differ from mine on this but I would never work for a company that rips off the country for 6bn and I have no respect for anyone that does,
smellybearrr 1 year ago
@scattyscott0988 oh and yeah I do understand that there income tax helps to pay for universities but I also pay tax, probably a lot more than a vodafone shop assistant and I understand that I pay tax for our universities so that the working class of this country can get a good education and not just the rich elite. And before you label me as student, Ive never been to uni, Im an honest tradesmen and I had to pay for my college course myself
smellybearrr 1 year ago
This really makes me sick, how can a company be let off paying 6 billion in taxes!! The tory scum yet again favouring the rich. You don't see the government letting us off without paying, why are vodaphone/philip green any different?...oh i forgot they're billionaires! my bad
sanaabanana87 1 year ago
How come the usual idiotic commentators aren't making ad hominem attacks on the protesters because some of them have beards? The hirsute police putting them off?
hairyruin 1 year ago
the vicious cuts upon students and working people would not be needed if the government dealt seriously with tax avoidance.
tomtaylor1 1 year ago
@tomtaylor1: The bonus payments to bankers should be taxed at 90% at least. It was their irresponsible loans gambling, which lead to the taxpayer funded bailout. This caused the borrowing, which the tories use to excuse these cuts in public spending! The low tax rate on bankers bonus payments encourages them to make badly secured loans.
2LisbonTreaty 1 year ago
lots more of this stuff to come next year
BibleWinScienceFail 1 year ago
Where is the evidence that they haven't paid their tax? I can't find it anywhere!
OddThomas88 1 year ago
"Vodafone has confirmed the shop will remain shut until it is safe to open it again."
- Is it that easy?????? Same should apply to the banks;
watch; Eric Cantona "Kill The Banks"
69salford69 1 year ago
I dnt think think u should be mad at Vodafone. It's hmrc that authorised the tac to be written off. Protest to them
U thickos!!!!
cromeconcept1 1 year ago
@studentnewscom I wasn't offended in the slightest thanks, I was merely trying to steer the discussion away from the one sided bashing you comprehensively gave it in your multiple posts. For future reference, brake in the context you may or may not have been implying is spelt "B-r-e-a-k". Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this was a peaceful protest... Thanks to whoever exclaimed "This peaceful protest is being disrupted by police violence", he is the real hero in this clip.
zerodegreeburn 1 year ago
To day we observe the stupidity of the masses, there is a urban myth that Vodafone need to pay 6bn in tax. This is untrue. £1.2bn was the tax bill and Vodafone was willing to pay 2.2. Yet the socialist, the communists, the “oh so opinionated” students and tree huggers and not forgetting the humble anarchists are all getting out of bed nice and early to protest and come sit Vodafone stores and have a jolly chat about it all. Undoubtedly they will try to brake something as well.
studentnewscom 1 year ago
@studentnewscom ROFL. students, "tree huggers", communists.. all one in the same eh? i can only hope you're having a laugh by throwing these vague classifications into one big homogenous lump as if environmentalism is now somehow synonymous with being a red. your rant (rounded off perfectly with your concern over things being broken - oh noes!) makes you sound like some sort of rebel-fearing guardian of corporate greed. v. strange indeed!
monogirl3 1 year ago 15
@monogirl3 you made me smile,and if im honest a little giggle came out. Better than the dude below who just made me confused by missing the point altogether, my rant being nothing to do with me burning the queen face that was mealy a outrageous capitalist one finger salute to all my friends in Tree huggers alliance. As for my homogenous lumping im sure the environmentalist wont be to offended, if they are, I will make a special effort to hug a Polar-bear the next time I see one.
studentnewscom 1 year ago
@studentnewscom HOW FUCKING MUCH DID VODAFONE PAY YO U TO LIE FOR THEM OR ARE VODAFONE YOUR SELF
EminemDirtyDozen 1 year ago
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@studentnewscom HOW FUCKING MUCH DID VODAFONE PAY YO U TO LIE FOR THEM OR ARE YOU VODAFONE YOUR SELF
EminemDirtyDozen 1 year ago
@studentnewscom vodafone bought Mannesmann via a Luxembourg holding company to avoid tax charges that it would incurre .it many be a legal loop hole it does not make it right or ethical or remotely fair. 18 billion euros in profit was payed into the Luxembourg company by vodafone and thats where your 6 billion tax doge comes from. no myth just mathematics.why would any one in the right mind would want to defend them.hell boy i have some vodafone shares and i think its shitty.
MUDSHARK111 1 year ago
@studentnewscom further more ,the main reason vodfone got out of its 2.2 billion bill is because of John Connors who up until vodaphone pouched him worked for..... dun dun daa HRMC negotiation vodafones tax bill .shenanigans?to fuckin right .and you have the cheek to call the people who got of there ass hand hold vodefone to account stupid.honestly son i dont know you i wouldn't call you stupid ,but your not much of a human being and
it would seem ignorant .
MUDSHARK111 1 year ago
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Its amusing how in this video the above named groups get the police on side by saying the police will be missing out on there shear of the 6billion suggesting that the above groups are also hypocrites because in the next sentence there shouting about police brutality. There’s nothing I enjoy more than hypocrisy. I digress, where was i...oh yes, Get over your selves and stop for gods sake believing anything you see or read.
studentnewscom 1 year ago
Its ridiculous, everyone you can see in video, and indeed if your one of them reading this, CHECK YOUR SOURCE! Who told you that Vodafone was dogiing tax? Your mate? The news? Or did you do research in to Vodafone tax records...I’m assuming the first two are more likely. Clearly today you have shown how stupid you are but there’s always tomorrow.
studentnewscom 1 year ago
Also “you and i films” are putting a total spin on the whole story listen to the language used, the editing is sensationalist, the little interviews (vox pops) are absurd and one sided-“media for a better world”? Yer right, again hypocrisy is thick in the air. Either way my day will be fun, and tonight as I light my Cigar with a £20pound note just after Iv ate some goose I'll reflect on what was a good day to day was. Viva la Vodafone!
studentnewscom 1 year ago
@studentnewscom RE: "...Either way my day will be fun, and tonight as I light my Cigar with a £20pound note just after Iv ate some goose I'll reflect on what was a good day to day was. Viva la Vodafone!
studentnewscom 18 hours ago"
Viva la ignorancé. Keep wasting the resources available to society and see how things turn out for you mate. What gives you the right to burn the Queen's head and waste £20GBP to light up a thick expensive cigar when you can still buy a box of matches for 10p?
zerodegreeburn 1 year ago
@zerodegreeburn Well done you! Missing the point altogether! Woop go you!
studentnewscom 1 year ago
@studentnewscom AND wearethebritish go and F Ll C K EACH OTHER PAIR OF FAGGOTS
EminemDirtyDozen 1 year ago
@studentnewscom incorrect my friend.
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studentnewscom 1 year ago
what a silly protest, wtf vodafone has to do with welfare? it's the government who is spending the money, not them. Why you're not protesting against too generous welfare instead?
zielaty 1 year ago
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2:26 what a fucking prick
Guitarded270 1 year ago
Does anyone know what this group is? I would like to join them. We need to be more like the French in this country and stop sitting in our front rooms and not doing anything about this sort of thing.
vanderrhuc 1 year ago
Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao,trousered £2.66m in salary and bonus, up from £2.26m in the previous year, as his bonus jumped from £881,000 to £1.25m.
Vodafone chief financial officer Andy Halford pocketed £1.73m for the year to the end of March 2010, up from £1.5m.
The head of Vodafone's European region, Michel Combes, received pay and bonus of £1.8m and group technology officer Stephen Pusey £1.3m.(Guardian).
2LisbonTreaty 1 year ago
Directors of FTSE 100 companies saw their total earnings soar an average of 55 per cent during the past year, prompting fresh calls from politicians for executive pay restraint.The findings are from Incomes Data Services, the pay monitoring group.
Vodafone is of course a FTSE 100 company.
2LisbonTreaty 1 year ago
a cheaply made film from a tiny struggling south london outfit that specialises in trying to cover student protests ignored by main stream media
highlights the fact that the only people demonstrating were dumbed down and easily led blair era students - none of whom understand tax law and corporate finance
WeAreTheBritish 1 year ago
@WeAreTheBritish you are a traitor to your fellow briton and would prefer the brits to be unemployed rather than the people at vodaphone to pay there taxes.
THANKS TRAITOR
YOU DONT NEED A PHD IN SOCIAL STUDIES TO KNOW WHEN YOU ARE BEING MUGGED.
Are you aware the torys and labour conspire when it comes to robbing us
portsanity 1 year ago
@portsanity why don't you fuck off and work in Russia/Cuba/North Korea as you are obviously a socialist/communist prick.
What ever you say you are still better off here than anywhere else. You are a idealistic and naive idiot
tjwright55 1 year ago
@tjwright55 BILLYNOMATES
portsanity 1 year ago
@portsanity Congratulations, you're an idiot
tjwright55 1 year ago
@tjwright55 IM AN IDIOT WITH FREINDS
portsanity 1 year ago
@portsanity yes you are, correct
tjwright55 1 year ago
@tjwright55 cross party collusion
portsanity 1 year ago
@tjwright55 ITS AS GOOD AS YOU MAKE IT!!
portsanity 1 year ago
@tjwright55 Doesn't sound like you're a very bright person. If you sit tight and do nothing about this sort of thing then things will get a whole lot worse.
vanderrhuc 1 year ago
@vanderrhuc ha and sitting on a bike outside vodafone and stopping people from buying a phone will make it a whoooole lot better won't it. Why on earth are these twats so rude to the police too? It's a joke. I agree if vodafone have done something so seriously wrong and it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt then something should be done. However, getting a load of unemployed or worthless students to go and chant shit outside a shop is not the best or most effective course of action at all
tjwright55 1 year ago
@WeAreTheBritish Are you right in the head mate? We has a country are being taken for a ride.
Nellynoodlebums 1 year ago
bunch of stupid jobsworths and foreigners. Tax avoidance is not illegal whatever you might think. You know google pay 2% tax in every country they operate in. Nothing wrong with it.
Stupid idiots
tjwright55 1 year ago
Great idea, I will encourage others to join the boycott.
truthseeker444 1 year ago
rersearch the treaty 1213 and treaty verona and venture into the rabbit hole! its what it all boils down to!!
hitler was funded by american corporations and banks. america is a corporation owned by britain!!
we can't let fascist nazi elements get away with this sort of thing!!
"a dream we dream alone is just a dream, a dream we dream together is reality!"- john lennon.
all thought all action is creative energy, what sort of world do you want to create??
we are the ones we've been waiting 4!
VATICANCREATEDISLAM 1 year ago
@VATICANCREATEDISLAM sensationalist bullshit
tjwright55 1 year ago
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VATICANCREATEDISLAM 1 year ago
@tjwright55- try and think beyond fears ego, insecurities and what the television Programmes you with!
even better still do some research- treaty 1213 and verona! did you know america is a corporation owned by britain?
tell me who said n wot their connection is to it all- "I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply."
VATICANCREATEDISLAM 1 year ago
@VATICANCREATEDISLAM what on earth are you on? Moron
tjwright55 1 year ago
@tjwright55- do you really need to start insulting people. is that as clever as you are? does it make your ego feel better?
like i said, use your brain, think beyond fears, egos, insecurities and what the tv has Programmed you with!!
VATICANCREATEDISLAM 1 year ago
@VATICANCREATEDISLAM Since I don't watch TV that is a massively false statement. You are delusional. What has Hitler got to do with Vodafone and tax avoidance which again is not illegal and so so very far from uncommon
tjwright55 1 year ago
Today I changed my mobile phone provider from Vodafone to a reputable U.K. company,which does not wash it's profits through an offshore company to avoid tax.
50,000 or 100,000 or more of us doing this would make this issue very difficult for business & politicians to ignore.
2LisbonTreaty 1 year ago
@2LisbonTreaty today I changed my contract to vodafone. They give me discount. If you think every big company does not use measures of tax avoidance then you are so so so naive
tjwright55 1 year ago
@tjwright55 Tax avoidance can be legal. Tax evasion is not, as the Govt.of India have informed Vodafone, which lost it's appeal against a £1.6 billion tax bill there.
I also was given a discount by a U.K. competitor to Vodafone when I changed my account.
2LisbonTreaty 1 year ago
@tjwright55 Don't lie you troll.
Nellynoodlebums 1 year ago
@WATBYou are probably from a dysfunctional home in an impoverished part of Scotland. With no prospects you drifted into the army to be indoctrinated with 'off the shelf' imperialism. You hide your shameful roots beneath regurgitated fanaticism and yearn to be part of the section of society whose interests this government sets out to protect, but it is apparent you are one of those sadly deluded members of the majority whose votes were necessary to this government to be elected. You sucker!
ringlandboy 1 year ago
thankyou...heavy handed shithead at 2:27
ltroonster1 1 year ago
Our Government LIE to us yet they are not held to account because the people will not act with their VOTE, the only voters are the people who believe their shit.
ukbands 1 year ago
If anyone reads the profile of a prolific commenter on this video, he states that the British should 'take themselves back' or something. Goes on to state he doesn't like EU products, Lists his favourite composers (all European, non British). Films (all financed by the US or mostly filmed there - ATTN nitpickers don't bother) and lists one of his favourite books as a British book which towards the end is largely allegorical to capitalism. Only other things that are British are the Rock bands!
pigeonshouse 1 year ago
Vodafone passed my alleged debt to them of £70.63 to Lowell Portfolio for a song, perhaps we could just ring up one of those DCA's and present them with stupid letters with lots of zero's on them.
pigeonshouse 1 year ago
BOYCOT VODAFONE! SHIT THEM DOWN! SMASH THEM!
DaneVincentVid 1 year ago
The people must use their voice. Great action.
Thank you for posting.
Whorulesnow 1 year ago
Your government loves you, suck it up, pay YOUR taxes & be good little people.
Sit in front of your TV, stuff with fast food & be happy, never mind you brother man.
Beware though, your turn will come, but it'll be too late then to get off that fat arse and do something.
The Bankster Elite are in total control, if you can't see that Now, then you never will. !!!
Great Video & Work, stay strong. 5+
Peace.
freemanshrout 1 year ago
For years now, Vodafone has been refusing to pay billions of pounds of taxes to the British people that are outstanding. The company – which has doubled its profits during this recession – engaged in all kinds of accounting twists and turns, but it was eventually ruled this refusal breached anti-tax avoidance rules. They looked set to pay a sum Private Eye calculates to be more than £6bn.
fourmanfilms 1 year ago
I am glad to see this is getting many hits. It is really one rule for the individual and another for the corporation.
miscpro 1 year ago
Hope this protest has the desired effect.
Corrie121 1 year ago
Unbelievable behaviour. Daylight robbery.
silvercorn 1 year ago
Muse -The Uprising
Daruka2009 1 year ago
cancel your Vodaphone contract and get another carrier.
Daruka2009 1 year ago
Well done all involved. "share the pain" means the little person not companies like this.
griffinrob 1 year ago
Why to go! The people MUST raise! I hope the Boiled Frogs Nations, f.k.a. as Americans would finally move their fat assess and start protesting the raping and pillaging of their own country.
wozzek22 1 year ago 3
@4:43. are the police there to protect a store that doesnt need protecting...OR are they joining in. Its money from there pockets and there jobs that are going to go, if every large corporation buys off the govenment.
richarddale76 1 year ago
fuck the police! fuck them pigs and corporate slaves!
shawnshawn27 1 year ago
The fascist corporation protectors looking after their paymasters.
They also double as revenue collectors, catching speeding motorists, etc.
ukpropaganda 1 year ago
Smash the Vodafone shops.
Smash the banks up.
Burn the UK parliament, Brussels and Strasbourg down to the ground.
ukpropaganda 1 year ago
Thanks for bringing attention Vodafone's tax evasion.
I shall change my mobile account from Vodafone to another provider.
Boycott this company.
2LisbonTreaty 1 year ago
You guys are legends!! Awesome sit in!
ThePiXiE13 1 year ago
Swell job folks!!! Thank you for doing this and fighting for people!
stromak 1 year ago
well done to Vodafone - delivering value to shareholders, job security for employees and expanding services for customers
WeAreTheBritish 1 year ago
exellent. Well done all
steveisscum27 1 year ago
I am shocked and saddend by those who responded to this short film in such an ill informed, un supportive way. I worked as an executive for Vodafone along with Singlepoint 4u Ltd. Singlepoint got away with charging VAT on international calls when non was due and effectively laughed at all you stupid customers... Vodafone is doing the same and no matter what you think about the protesters the cuts will effect you from Judges right the way down to road sweepers, keep laughing.. your next!
aufo8mycow 1 year ago
LOL!! tree huggers strike again!! Get a job you lot, will ya?!!!!! Jeez
markymarc70 1 year ago
@markymarc70 wow, you are so original and clever!!
WELL DONE EVERYONE, LETS HAVE MORE OF THESE ACTIONS
cramphound 1 year ago
Fucking joke! Same old story, the rich get away with everything while the poorer people have to suffer!
MrPerfectVision 1 year ago 2
6bil tax break. Will vodafone be creating more jobs in this country with this money? As if. LOL!
darrenpollard1st 1 year ago
Smash all the stores up, it's the only way.
MickeysHits 1 year ago
Great article from todays Independant - Johann Hari : Protest works. Just look at the proof - "Yes, you can choose to do nothing. But you will be choosing to let yourself and your family and your country be ripped off."
"There’s a mood that we have been stitched up by forces more powerful and devious than us, and all we can do is sit back and be shafted.
This mood is wrong. It doesn’t have to be this way – if enough of us act to stop it."
youandifilms 1 year ago 13
@youandifilms great article from the independent. Of course you would think that because it is biased towards the left
tjwright55 1 year ago
Boycott Vodafone and all the other theiving corporate businesses.
LizzieBGood 1 year ago
I wonder why the BBC didn't cover this?
TheMightyAntar 1 year ago
2:25 ish police man hitting someone... only a little hit but if it was the other way round that person hitting the police it wouldn't be allowed would it.
andrewcul 1 year ago
Look, either put up or shut. This country was sold down the river a long, LONG time ago. The police own you, the police are owned by the government, the government is own by corporations, corporations are owned by the banking elite and royal class who all hate your f***king guts and want you dead. So either you stop funding the machine, exposed the new world order, remove all your money from your bank, leave your job and get Britain out of the EU. S**t will stay the same. Peace!
alan87guitarist 1 year ago
STARVE THE SYSTEM...
IF THEY DON'T LISTEN, THEY HAVE TO FEEL..
Boycott governments, taxes, big companies..
GLOBAL NON COMPLIANCE!!
optimizzo 1 year ago
If anyone still pay the government Taxes after this... God help them... Criminals and murderers have got out of control..
BOYCOTTTHEBEASTTV 1 year ago
Oh Yeah it's already started and I'm a Happy Camper with these bunch of Clowns posing as police men. Let this be a lesson to you folks in America when the Government has confiscated all their weapons and push you around like a bunch of grown up children. Get GUNS....The rest is up to you. They will rob you all until you can no longer support yourself and then KILL YOU DEAD. Time has come to do unto THEM AS THEY WOULD DO UNTO YOU BLOKES.
BabylonsKing 1 year ago
you know the government are thieving corrupt conmen,they give the bankers billions when its the banks who got the country in this mess to start with,yet who are the government targeting the most,thats right people on benefits the poorest in our country,vodaphone are just the same as any other big company,fucking horrible thieving bastards,if the government gave the billions to the public the recession would have ended overnight
davyro66 1 year ago
Don't the police in this video understand that it's their jobs on the line here, since police funding has been slashed, and companies like Vodafone are directly to blame? Why are they supporting them?
StockportJambo 1 year ago
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well done to the Police for eviciting these ignorant and ill-informed silly little attention seeking students
WeAreTheBritish 1 year ago
@WeAreTheBritish - Wow, well done - It must have taken you a few hours to come up with that - But I guess Organisations like The Private Eye (BRITAIN’S £6BN VODAFONE BILL - First published in Private Eye 1273, 3-16 Sept, 2010), The Guardian, This is Money as well as The Telegraph reporting on Vodafones £1.6bn Indian tax bill, starts alarm bells and raises concerns.But Hey if you would rather support Welfare,Education and Housing cuts than look at alternatives then please feel free to explain it.
youandifilms 1 year ago 19
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@youandifilms I'm truly sorry that corporate finance and cross-border tax legislation is beyond you, but that's just the way it is
you're a small outfit with a small outlook on life ......you won't change anything, I promise you
WeAreTheBritish 1 year ago
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NeilGOwen 1 year ago
@WeAreTheBritish
Just an update, cross border tax is unlawful and illegal, but am sure you know that. So your up for the corruption?
Going by your name your one of the "Very Highly paid" bnp, or other associated scum, that are makeing a profit from others ppls grief.
As for the small out fit, its getting bigger and bigger in so many ways, and the ideology ppl like you encourage is getting closer to a prison cell. Enjoy your mental squalor, cell time soon. : )
"that's just the way it is".
Tomken12345 1 year ago
@Tomken12345 you're right - I am highly paid 'cross border tax is unlawful' - lol.....
bless you.....,any more howlers or are you done for the night?
WeAreTheBritish 1 year ago
@WeAreTheBritish Not if everyone bins their Vodaphone phones they will then be the small outfit.
Big things always start small you should know that!
But by your Brains perhaps things always stay small?
why are you backing up a French company ripping off The British People through the British Government.
Are you paid by Vodaphone perhaps?
It is time the BRITISH PEOPLE stopped this ripp off
Join them in their quest for a fairer Britain for ALL of the people in our land.
NeilGOwen 1 year ago
@youandifilms You got me on the knowledge front. Well played sir. However, i have to ask, do you think it's OK for Vodaphone and the government to allow such an injustice? Especially in the time we live in right now?
ranmax2001 1 year ago
@WeAreTheBritish mm manager of Vodaphone?
Do you pay your taxes if so why shouldn't Vodaphone pay theirs.
They are nothing special so souldn't have special privilages.
So what is ignorant about what they are doing other then that the powers to be will stop them and restore the corruption to the country.
NeilGOwen 1 year ago
@WeAreTheBritish
I'm afraid it's you who is ill informed. Good on those protestors. How dare you call yourself WeAreTheBritish. Maybe you should stand up for your fellow countrymen if you think you are British.
captainshifty 1 year ago