One reason why Jezza has to be very careful is for when he is asked the question “How many of the Super RIch actually paid the high rate taxes when your lot were in power the past 50 years?”
No doubt we will start to hear that besides Politics, Branson & Sugar, Coldplay & Adele etc the EPL’s finest and of course anyone in Banking pay less total tax than my Cousin on minimum wage at Waitrose
It’s only the Muggles that ever have to pay tax
I think in that sense, New Labour holdouts and the Tories have done his work for him. From the moment he got nominated, they went out of their way to portray him as something different, something dangerous and something unelectable. Of course, what makes it hilarious is that this lot didn’t get elected on their platform - and one of the key reasons was that they offered no substantive differences in approach. They were shit scared of the Tories rhetoric on austerity, for example.
The public aren’t clued up on much when it comes to politics, but I’d wager the majority know Corbyn represents a significant break from New Labour. Fuck, the media went to enough trouble to point that out.
Welcome back, and I (predictably) quite like this perspective. As I indicated yesterday, the story was quickly becoming about non-Western leaders (still is, judging by the hysteria over Syria and Russian involvement today).
Ties into the “why is this on the news” thing quite nicely.
He added: "In terms of my own financial affairs, I own no shares.
“I have a salary as prime minister, and I have some savings which I get some interest from and I have a house which we used to live in which we now let out while we’re living in Downing Street, and that’s all I have.”
Ok, I will take that at face value - if however, it turns out that he is getting income from offshore tax havens or that he is the benficiary of an offshore trust, then he has to go.
Fair play to Corbyn, who said when asked if PM should resign if he had benefitted, “Let’s take one thing at a time. We need openness, we need an examination, we need a decision after that”
That’s not good enough for me, unless Dave comes out and publicly takes a massive shit on his own dead dad’s grave, then I will be voting for the CORBYN VOTE HARVESTER, who at least had the good sense to hide his ill gotten gains in Switzerland rather than Panamas
Let’s be honest, if Dave can hide his dick in the mouth of a dead pig and get away with it , he is not going to worry about a few quid tucked away off shore.
Easy tiger, light hearted jest, nothing else doing
I know, and sorry if the reply came off a bit harsh. I thought the Clarkson-era Top Gear comment at the end would at the necessary levity, but clearly it did not.
I have to admit that I did briefly consider that people who actually went to Clarkson-era Top Gear recordings and Sotonians may intersect. I also appreciate that the label I gave them is subjective, and that to some people, they may seem like nice polite young people, laughing along to Jeremy’s bantz.
Others, like me, constantly petition the BBC to start The Running Man for real in 2017, claiming that “we’ve already got a vast pool of potential contestants” and “the beauty is, you’ve got most of them on file”
Very sticky wicket for Corbyn with Dave. Has to be so careful not to throw stones in a Greenhouse. Think it will fizzle out very quickly and leave everyone to watch the rest of the planet melt down
Seems that the offshore trust stuff was actually declared a long time ago. Likewise the “Cameron Family Wealth” goes WAY back to when one of them joined Rothschilds in the 1860’s.
Offshore Funds are obviously Tax efficient vehicles, but at the same time they are 1) Legal and 2) a very important part of International Business.
One reason that Labour have to tread carefully is of course Ken Livingstone…
