Mark Watkinson
@nobigfish.bsky.social
Pro freedom of movement, anti-Brexit 🇪🇺. Rallying against the unjust #LoanChargeScandal ⚖️. Music 🎶, travel 🧳, laughter 🤣, food 🥨 & drink 🍻. I also like street art . Be nice.
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"Plainly I am not independent"
(Ray McCann 2019) - quite the admission from 'independent' reviewer #LoanChargeScandal #McCannReview on eve of publication of his review (into settlement terms).
Thank you to Angus Macdonald MP
for written question.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
(Ray McCann 2019) - quite the admission from 'independent' reviewer #LoanChargeScandal #McCannReview on eve of publication of his review (into settlement terms).
Thank you to Angus Macdonald MP
for written question.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"Plainly I am not independent"
(Ray McCann 2019) - quite the admission from 'independent' reviewer #LoanChargeScandal #McCannReview on eve of publication of his review (into settlement terms).
Thank you to Angus Macdonald MP
for written question.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
(Ray McCann 2019) - quite the admission from 'independent' reviewer #LoanChargeScandal #McCannReview on eve of publication of his review (into settlement terms).
Thank you to Angus Macdonald MP
for written question.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
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🚨 BREAKING: Damning new reports expose key roles played by #charteredaccountants & #recruitmentagencies in the #LoanChargeScandal. There was industrial mis-selling for profit for huge commissions & fees, yet the Government refuses to tackle perpetrators.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Damning new reports expose key roles played by #charteredaccountants & #recruitmentagencies in the #LoanChargeScandal. There was industrial mis-selling for profit for huge commissions & fees, yet the Government refuses to tackle perpetrators.
hmrcloancharge.info/new-reports-ex…
hmrcloancharge.info/new-reports-ex…
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Here is my latest #LinkedIn article: HMRC’s “Smoke and Mirrors”: How the Taxman Falsely Claims Crackdowns While Loan Scheme Victims Suffer.
#HMRC #LoanChargeScandal
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#HMRC #LoanChargeScandal
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HMRC’s “Smoke and Mirrors”: How the Taxman Falsely Claims Crackdowns While Loan Scheme Victims Suffer
In March 2020, the Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) released a report that exposes a lengthy and deeply troubling pattern: HMRC and the Treasury have orchestrated a campaign of mislead...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Here is my latest #LinkedIn article: HMRC’s “Smoke and Mirrors”: How the Taxman Falsely Claims Crackdowns While Loan Scheme Victims Suffer.
#HMRC #LoanChargeScandal
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#HMRC #LoanChargeScandal
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Here is my latest article
#HMRC Standing instructions critique
#LoanChargeScandal
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#HMRC Standing instructions critique
#LoanChargeScandal
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HMRC Standing instructions critique
The United Kingdom's taxing authority suffers bad attitudes and actions that flow from the following standing instruction: What is the Loan Charge 67,000 people are being pursued by HMRC under a piece...
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July 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Here is my latest article
#HMRC Standing instructions critique
#LoanChargeScandal
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#HMRC Standing instructions critique
#LoanChargeScandal
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This is the #LoanChargeScandal. Let's blow the lid of the toxic #UKGovernment #HMRC #LoanCharge policy, its destroying lives
👉 67,000 victims
👉 10 Suicides
👉 14 Attempted Suicides
👉 24 Serious Injuries
#STOPtheLoanCharge #SaveLives
@labouruk.bsky.social #RachelReeves #KeirStarmer #JamesMurray
👉 67,000 victims
👉 10 Suicides
👉 14 Attempted Suicides
👉 24 Serious Injuries
#STOPtheLoanCharge #SaveLives
@labouruk.bsky.social #RachelReeves #KeirStarmer #JamesMurray
This thread is a list of #LoanCharge articles that give important information. #LoanChargeScandal victims need an INDEPENDENT #LoanChargeReview and a FAIR RESLOLUTION STOP #HMRC destroying lives. #STOPtheLoanCharge. STOP the #LoanChargeSuicides #SaveLives
April 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This is the #LoanChargeScandal. Let's blow the lid of the toxic #UKGovernment #HMRC #LoanCharge policy, its destroying lives
👉 67,000 victims
👉 10 Suicides
👉 14 Attempted Suicides
👉 24 Serious Injuries
#STOPtheLoanCharge #SaveLives
@labouruk.bsky.social #RachelReeves #KeirStarmer #JamesMurray
👉 67,000 victims
👉 10 Suicides
👉 14 Attempted Suicides
👉 24 Serious Injuries
#STOPtheLoanCharge #SaveLives
@labouruk.bsky.social #RachelReeves #KeirStarmer #JamesMurray
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Representation in action! After working as a motorcycle instructor, wrote to my local MP about the currently woeful legislation re. learners & compulsory basic training (CBT) in particular.
It was actually asked in parliament. There is a lot of momentum behind this, hopefully it will get somewhere.
It was actually asked in parliament. There is a lot of momentum behind this, hopefully it will get somewhere.
March 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Representation in action! After working as a motorcycle instructor, wrote to my local MP about the currently woeful legislation re. learners & compulsory basic training (CBT) in particular.
It was actually asked in parliament. There is a lot of momentum behind this, hopefully it will get somewhere.
It was actually asked in parliament. There is a lot of momentum behind this, hopefully it will get somewhere.
In my local, rural, community we are fighting against a large quarry being started on what currently are green fields. It would be great if my followers could follow this campaign account on @stopnewquarry.bsky.social and repost some of the posts. Thank you 🙏
#StopTheQuarry
#StopTheQuarry
March 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In my local, rural, community we are fighting against a large quarry being started on what currently are green fields. It would be great if my followers could follow this campaign account on @stopnewquarry.bsky.social and repost some of the posts. Thank you 🙏
#StopTheQuarry
#StopTheQuarry
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Protect the health of people who live near quarries
Living near a quarry brings increased risk to the health of people in the nearby communities.
At the moment there are no standards laid down by government, relating to how far away quarries have to...
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March 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement
FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
March 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement
FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
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Not sure if crashing the stock market counts as a "little disturbance."
March 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Not sure if crashing the stock market counts as a "little disturbance."
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It was my first foray into what they were.
I can see them being very useful if not used in a malicious manner.
But you are most certainly correct, it’s not worth wondering how you got on a list. Chances are in my case, I don’t want to know this person, so trash takes itself out 🤷🏻♀️
I can see them being very useful if not used in a malicious manner.
But you are most certainly correct, it’s not worth wondering how you got on a list. Chances are in my case, I don’t want to know this person, so trash takes itself out 🤷🏻♀️
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It was my first foray into what they were.
I can see them being very useful if not used in a malicious manner.
But you are most certainly correct, it’s not worth wondering how you got on a list. Chances are in my case, I don’t want to know this person, so trash takes itself out 🤷🏻♀️
I can see them being very useful if not used in a malicious manner.
But you are most certainly correct, it’s not worth wondering how you got on a list. Chances are in my case, I don’t want to know this person, so trash takes itself out 🤷🏻♀️
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Get It Together
Beastie Boys, Q-Tip · Ill Communication · Song · 1994
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February 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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I stumbled upon this by accident after getting added to a list called “blockenheimer” (?) by someone IDK and it’s kind of a crazy story…
Anyway, I thought this exchange was sweet.
Anyway, I thought this exchange was sweet.
March 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I stumbled upon this by accident after getting added to a list called “blockenheimer” (?) by someone IDK and it’s kind of a crazy story…
Anyway, I thought this exchange was sweet.
Anyway, I thought this exchange was sweet.
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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Cartoon by David Sipress.
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Cartoon by David Sipress.
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Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.
March 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.
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If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
March 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
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Trump & Vance unfit for their positions.
March 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Trump & Vance unfit for their positions.
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Trump has only been in 1 type of bunker, unlike Zelensky.
Trump isn't fit to be in the same room as Zelensky and he proved that yesterday.
Trump isn't fit to be in the same room as Zelensky and he proved that yesterday.
March 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Trump has only been in 1 type of bunker, unlike Zelensky.
Trump isn't fit to be in the same room as Zelensky and he proved that yesterday.
Trump isn't fit to be in the same room as Zelensky and he proved that yesterday.
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Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮
#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮
#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦