Leeds

34 days ago

Peak 2025: the case of the rent boy on welfare Islamist asylum seeker burning a Police car Hakam Gaith

Watching Rachel Reeves this morning it is quite clear that my wife and I are going to see material tax rises over the next year despite our household income actually falling. My proposed solution is to sell up in wet and windy Wales and move to our mountain eco palace in sunny Greece where we could either retire on our savings and home school the kids or carry on working and, actually, pay less tax. The Mrs has no plan B but I fear plan B it will be. We will just soldier on and feel cheated and unhappy.

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2229 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: ref the photo below, questions, questions & more questions for Versarien

In today’s podcast I look at the news for Neil Woodford dog Xeros (XSG) and what it says about the company, its new Nomad and Broker FinnCap (FCAP) and about the hapless auditors at Grant Thornton Leeds. Then with reference to the photo below it is questions, questions, questions for shameless share ramper Neill Ricketts and Versarien (VRS)

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2338 days ago

PWC Leeds office in the soup for a third time – PTSG and the £540k payments to CEO

The other day the Leeds office of PWC was fined heavily and slammed by the FRC for professional negligence in the case of not spotting accounting fraud at Redcentric (RCN). It was the second such notice in two years for PWC Leeds and the office is on a warning. Thus I am sorry to say but it is in the soup again over the massive undeclared payments going, over many years, to the CEO of Premier Technical Services Group (PTSG), Mr Paul Teasdale, which I exposed in full on Saturday HERE. Now here is why PWC is in the soup…

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