Panama Papers

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-35918844

well well well, who'd-a thought it?

can we expect high level fall-out from these disclosures, or is the matter just going to die the death after an initial flurry of indignant tut-tutting?

[youngmafbog]

//did Call Me Dave's dear old dad pull any flankers?//

And would you be responsible for what your parents or friends did or do?

What you should have asked is :

Does Daves family still have a stake in any off shore fund?

Much of this smacks of the politics of envy.

[douglas9401]

Oh, is that what it smacks of? I knew it smacked of something.

Thanks for that youngmafbog, I'm ALWAYS asking the wrong questions and there's never usually anyone around to correct me.
You're a saviour.

[Peter Pedant]

blimey all the people who insist the mustachioed muslims are coming to kill us in our beds ....
dont seem to mind if they dont pay their taxes on the way ...

Shweik 3T and the rest all uphold immigration law
and then say of revenue law - oh it affects me and I wouldnt pay it .....

and as someone on the wrong end of a tax investigation I can happiily aver I take care to pay all the tax on my affairs within the time given

and Yes schweik from experience
taxes are due from the fambly if the decd has left his own affairs in a tax shambles ...
and think of IHT - that is due to be paid by the inheritors ( well executors actually - but heavens this is AB )

and here we have a family paying off a dying man's debts...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-great-and-not-so-goodman-1074673.html

well if you read the ref which no one on AB does
then it wasnt quite like that
but the myth persists that the Goodman fambly paid back the millions that Lord Arnold Goodman - yes two-dinners Goodman the great labour fixer, pilfered during his puggy dirty little light fingered life - light fingered ? more like biscuit barrel - sausage rolls actually

yup chmn of the arts council had his fingers in the till all that time .....

[Peter Pedant]

I am sorry YMF fambly ties may do in someone in the news

Jimmy Savile's brother had done time for child molesting twenty years ago.
and Lord Goodman's family said: our fathers fraud has everything to do with us.

Boris - another Old etonian man-of the people - his father was entrapped by a reporter over a christmas present he WOULD buy for himself
a lovely bird's eye maple bureau plat - cost £19,000
well the old boy is a retired diplomat on a pension we all pay for ....

and osborne's brother - struck off for screwing a patient of his

[ToraToraTora]

can someone translate PPs usual BS

[mushroom25]

//screwing a patient //

do you mean fiscally, or literally, or both?

[-Talbot-]

fiscally or physically?
My money would be on both.

[mikey4444]

Try as I might, I just can't seem to find Corbyns name in these papers !

[-Talbot-]

Why did you even bother ...he's got no money.

[mikey4444]

Talbot....maybe he is too honest !

Here is Steve Bell, in this mornings Guardian :::

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/apr/04/steve-bell-david-cameron-panama-papers-cartoon

[saintpeter48]

In 2011, Cameron blasted Jimmy Carr for tax avoidance, describing him as 'morally wrong', so what does Dave think about his own father then, after all, we are all in this together!

[ToraToraTora]

"Try as I might, I just can't seem to find Corbyns name in these papers ! " - he's a socialist Mikey, he spends other peoples money.

[mikey4444]

TTT...a very weak attempt to defend the current Leader of the Tory Party...you are going to have to do better than that !

[ToraToraTora]

I'm not defeninmg anyone mikey. They are only doing what we all would do if we were rich enough to make it worth it. If I could avoid paying tax I would so would you.

[Khandro]

hypo; //so all that stuff, sloshing around in offshore banks accounts, is yer actual sweat of yer workin' class (and some middle class, in da' management).//

The old tired Marxist/Leninist line. Some people have taken enormous personal risks to obtain their wealth, sometimes losing everything and then starting over again and again. As long as it is legal, I would want to stash some away as an insurance against future failure.

[bazwillrun]

"Talbot....maybe he is too honest ! "

laughable...its because he doesnt have the brains or the capacity let alone the nous to earn big money

[youngmafbog]

Try as I might I cant find Camerons name in the papers.

His fathers maybe, but I doubt very much he had any choice in that.

[bazwillrun]

Well the Blatantly Biased C£$%S Radio2 jeremy vine show earlier made sure everybody was aware that Ian Cameron who was the late father of DC was involved whilst discussing the panama issue...they could have picked any number of people so far named to headline and use as a "feature" name to discuss, but no they had to make sure they cleverly used the association to involve DC...imstead of saying we make no inference or suggestion that DC was involved or had knowledge of his fathers affairs blah blah...

[saintpeter48]

youngmafbog .... his father stashed it away in offshore accounts and paid for his sons private education with the cash, young Camerons name is not in the papers, so that makes it ok then?

[saintpeter48]

bazwillrun, they used Camerons name because he is a big fish, he is after all Prime Minister, the biggest name out there, he has been banging on for years about tax avoidance, ie Jimmy Carr, Amazon, Starbucks, Google etc ..... lets hear what Dave has got to say about his fathers tax dodging affairs!!