Gabrielle O'Donovan
@GabrielleO61890
#ExcludedUK. Award-winning author of memoir "Gino's Contraband" . https://www.amazon.co.uk/sk=gino%27s+contraband&crid=HKSDN9QBJF @gabrielleod.bluesky.social
#memoir #ginoscontraband 'Editor's Pick' 🤩& "Chilling story of one woman's battle against mistaken identity" @booklife by @publishersweekly 🙏🤗; 'Indie Books We Love' 🤩& "A shocking and emotive tale shining a light on a harrowing experience that leaves people feeling isolated,…
"For at least two decades, our political class has been playing with fire over the issue of immigration, repeatedly promising to get numbers down but invariably failing to do so. And now a storm is gathering." My debut column for the GB News website. ⬇️ gbnews.com/opinion/epping…
The elephant in the room which Dale has not addressed is that wealth taxes cannot be done. He is trying to frame the objections, but missing the big one. Ask him for a copy of his draft legislation - he doesn’t have one. Dreadful campaigner - empty handed.
With extreme poverty at one end of the scale and extreme wealth at the other - with difficult spending choices to make - a wealth tax makes good sense and is in any event a moral issue. The one reason we hear for not doing it (and it’s in this interview again) is rich people…
Hi all. 😀 After a very long and hard slog over the past few months, I am thrilled to share the cover of my audiobook, 'Gino's Contraband' (which I narrated myself in my Irish dulcet tones), and which will be on sale soon across many platforms. 🥳To learn more and listen to a…
#PostOfficeScandal #ICAS “They were essentially stealing money off Sub-postmasters, not knowing what to do with it, giving up and then putting it into their profit account” Interesting piece with @nickwallis. 👇👇👇 camagazine.icas.com/ca-june-2025/t…
"Forty-three days, we raise our voice, For those accused, we seek rejoice." Lyn 💙🧡💙 #IFAD9S @Elsie2127 @FACTukorg @W @LiebevollerPapi @m0wpg @00_Nessie @leetronix @v301xx @jcherrera @MastermanDavies @scott8ishop @Cocopoppers123 @Oldsoldier8585 @sheilaoliver16 @MalePsychology
What’s daft is that @DaleVince has spent considerable time campaigning for something for which he’s provided no draft legislation to flesh out his ideas. He is empty handed. A tax populist.
A wealth tax is daft apparently but a tax on the poor, to pay for a new nuclear power station - that’s OK, it’s not like they have better things to spend their money on, is it... on.ft.com/4lMh7Ty
Day 1,659 : Ten #LoanChargeSuicides @CommonsTreasury & @Meg_HillierMP why are you not investigating the #LoanChargeScandal ? @Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner @RachelReevesMP @darrenpjones @jamesmurray_ldn @SpenceLivermore #StopTheLoanCharge ⚖️ @thetimes @GeorgeGreenwood 👇🏻
I am constantly worrying – I have a terminally ill wife and two young sons to support. I have no idea how much they will try to claw back... I worry that this will all be taken away as soon as HMRC issue their demands @LCAG_2019 @loanchargeAPPG #LoanChargeScandal
The true figure is conflated with 'recovered' funds from other avoidance. In the same way HMRC claim aggregate hours of loan promoters jail time, which later turns out to be unrelated to loan schemes. #LoanChargeScandal - behind the control narrative, is anything what it seems?
Am in process of appealing with support from new Accountant company. My original accountants, Ad Valorum, put me onto the schemes It amounts to me being asked to pay my earnings for 4 years @LCAG_2019 @loanchargeAPPG #LoanChargeScandal
Hannah Hampton. Super star - and a Baggies supporter as well. Boing bloody boing. Congrats to England. Congrats to Hannah.
Emotionally crippled to the point of needing long-term medication. With 10 #LoanCharge-linked suicides, multiple attempts and self-harms, the tax authority's belated afterthought was to 'partner with' Samaritans, rather than drop the failed high suicide-risk #LoanCharge policy.
Richard Burgon is trying to sell everyone a lemon. He is not stupid, so must know his plans will never work or happen. So, what is his agenda? #wealthtax More on why he is wrong: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/07/22/uk-…
There has been a staggering 150% surge in UK billionaire wealth since 2010: ▪️2010: £250 Billion ▪️2025: £620 Billion The Government should not be making cuts. It should be introducing a Wealth Tax on the very wealthiest in our society.
Rachel Reeves considers overruling supreme court in £44bn car finance scandal uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/rachel-re… This is astonishing! If true and if she does this, how would she and the Government not then become an accomplice or co-conspirator in one of the largest unlawful series of…
Countries can get by when the economy is struggling but there are high levels of trust and social cohesion. They can also get by when the economy is thriving but trust and social cohesion are in short supply. But they will almost certainly run into massive problems when the…
Published five years ago. I wouldn't change a word.
Not the only instance of a retrospective change in the law having a significant impact on lives. Check out the #loancharge which has lead to 10 suicides so far and more than likely more to come.
As one of the traders who served time, Jay Merchant, once told me, the really unsettling thing is the way they retrospectively criminalised something no-one thought was wrong at the time. If this could happen to them, he says, "this could happen to you." bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
Day 1,656 : Ten #LoanChargeSuicides @CommonsTreasury & @Meg_HillierMP why are you not investigating the #LoanChargeScandal ? @Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner @RachelReevesMP @darrenpjones @jamesmurray_ldn @SpenceLivermore #StopTheLoanCharge ⚖️ @FT @EmmaAgyemang 👇🏻
It's high time @jamesmurray_ldn @RachelReevesMP @HMRCgovuk abandoned their cruel and unjustifiable retrospective taxes against honest people #LoanChargeScandal and instead prosecuted promoters rather than this farce
Everyone in these schemes were not breaking the law at the time and we wrongly advised. The law was changed to enable HMRC to seek the employee instead of the employer for recovery of monies ...contemplated suicide a few times @LCAG_2019 @loanchargeAPPG #LoanChargeScandal