Cameron Tax Dodger

michaels

Tromking wrote: »

'Call Me Dave' is guilty of naught but rank hypocrisy. Hence his difficulty in getting this of the front pages and moving on. Cameron`s displays of deep uncomfortableness this past week has been a joy.

Those who think this is a story either don't understand or deliberately pretend not to understand that using a company based outside the UK to manage their investments is no different from using a company based in the US to manage their music library (iTunes).

Tromking

michaels wrote: »

Those who think this is a story either don't understand or deliberately pretend not to understand that using a company based outside the UK to manage their investments is no different from using a company based in the US to manage their music library (iTunes).

Then why is it a story nonetheless?

System

Tromking wrote: »

Then why is it a story nonetheless?

Because it sells to people like you.

Generali

Tromking wrote: »

Cameron spent the first week of this whole saga batting off enquiries not because he`d done anything illegal but because he feared being accused of hypocrisy. Private citizens not in public office can be hypocrites, politicians who've previously gobbed off about the moral repugnance of tax avoidance can't.

David Cameron is being accused of being 'posh'. This is just the ludicrous British obsession with class being played out.

Tromking

Joeskeppi wrote: »

Because it sells to people like you.

lol!
A case of mass delusional class envy I suppose?
I am aware that this discussion is taking place on a website where the antics of the Cameron Family makes them heroes to the terminally money savvy posters on here, but understand to ordinary simple voters, this behaviour is a mystery to them.
I suppose this non-story didn't drag Cameron`s sorry backside to the Commons this afternoon either?

Thrugelmir

Tromking wrote: »

'Call Me Dave' is guilty of naught but rank hypocrisy. Hence his difficulty in getting this of the front pages and moving on. Cameron`s displays of deep uncomfortableness this past week has been a joy.

However increasingly makes Corbyn and co look totally incompetent.

kabayiri

People (well, the mass of the public) don't understand what the positive purpose of an offshore fund in a tax haven really is.

So...they fill in the blanks, and everyone likes a juicy scandal (if they didn't the tabloids wouldn't exist).

It basically comes down to a question of public trust. How can you trust something you don't really understand. Something which has only really existed in recent decades. We have had banks based here for much longer, and they seemed to function well on the whole.

You'd have to trust the people telling you these things are a good thing. The reality is, many people don't trust Cameron / Osborne / Milliband / Blair now. They just think they are in it for themselves.

The other week it was Google; today it is Offshore and tax havens; tomorrow it will be something else.

chucknorris

Thrugelmir wrote: »

However increasingly makes Corbyn and co look totally incompetent.

To be fair though Corbyn manages that quite well himself, without any help from Dave.

Thrugelmir

kabayiri wrote: »

People (well, the mass of the public) don't understand what the positive purpose of an offshore fund in a tax haven really is.

There's been very clear explanations given not least by the BBC economics editor on the Jeremy Vine show. Even Jeremy was so into rottweiler mode that the Conservative respondent had to point out what had been said previously and that Jeremy was straying into slanderous terrority. Making a story appears to be the name of the game rather than a factual discussion to educate and inform. Politics has returned to the dark days of Punch and Judy.

chewmylegoff

Tromking wrote: »

'Call Me Dave' is guilty of naught but rank hypocrisy. Hence his difficulty in getting this of the front pages and moving on. Cameron`s displays of deep uncomfortableness this past week has been a joy.

He is guilty of total incompetence in his PR strategy as he should have just been upfront from the start; by issuing a number of carefully worded press releases designed to skirt around the issue he demonstrate poor judgement in my view.

He isn't guilty of hypocrisy re tax avoidance as he hasn't avoided any tax.