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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
How many times does it need to be said? He hasn't broken any laws Arthur. 
And nobody is going to be arrested for arranging their tax affairs in the most efficient way. If they were the majority of the population would be in clink. |
Indeed, all Cameron is guilty of is dragging his heels. Frankly, most of us would do exactly the same as him in his situation. Tax wise I mean, hopefully more of the population will have a bit more common sense! Stonewalling the media only results in more, rather than less scrutiny.
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Originally Posted by Osem
 Arthur's impervious to facts mate.
I wonder why few people seem to be quite so exercised about the vast sums of money being 'earned' (and tax potentially avoided etc.) by self serving football players, sports stars, TV personalities, celebrity luvvies and the like. All this venom being aimed at politicians who at least serve the country yet earn in a year what more than a few bladder kickers get in just a week or two.  |
You know something? I would be accusing you of creating strawmen if it wasn't for the fact that there really are people who see "Person X, in this case, Cameron = bad" and find anything to stick on them rather than separating the person from the story and realising that frankly, this is a complete non issue. That being said, hypocrisy knows no political colours, and is a human trait, rather than a trait of any political leanings.
Cameron didn't help himself when he vowed to crack down on "aggressive tax avoidance" while never quite defining it. the fact that he has embarked on pretty mundane tax avoidance takes a back seat however and things have got a bit silly.
Still waiting on some proper analysis of this whole story though and rubbish such as this doesn't really do anything but muddy the waters.
Oh, and as above, if a footballer started railing against tax havens and aggressive tax dodging while doing it themselves, I'll be the first to call them a bit of a plonker too. I couldn't give a stuff about the opinions of "celebrity lurvies" etc either.