Whatever Comes Over Blowhard Politicians?

[douglas9401]

http://news.sky.com/story/1674737/pm-evaded-question-but-has-not-avoided-damage

Will Dave take the Icelandic route or have we days, weeks and months of drawing out the truth?

[naomi24]

-Talbot-, // Shouldn't he have declared this Panama connection on becoming a MP? //

Why?

[-Talbot-]

Register of Members' Financial Interests
The main purpose of the Register is to provide information about any financial interest which a Member has, or any benefit which he or she receives, which others might reasonably consider to influence his or her actions or words as a Member of Parliament.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...Talbot has given you the answer here.

[naomi24]

-Talbot- //which others might reasonably consider to influence his or her actions or words as a Member of Parliament. //

I didn't see anyone jumping up and down about any of this in 2001, when David Cameron first entered parliament. Did you? Or you, Mikey? I'm assuming that he, along with everyone else in the House who had similar arrangements never for a moment considered that it would influence his or her actions or words as a Member of Parliament. It's a complete nonsense.

[-Talbot-]

I didn't see anyone jumping up and down about any of this in 2001, when David Cameron first entered parliament.


If he didn't register it how could they?

[naomi24]

-Talbot-, but no one was jumping up and down about anyone else's legal financial affairs either. There was no jumping to be had. It wasn't an issue. This has all arisen recently.

[Quizmonster]

'No government has done more than this one to crack down on tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance.' (Cameron quote 2015)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-camerons-past-attacks-on-tax-evasion-after-admitting-to-profiting-offshore-trust-following-a6974001.html
As we all know, tax avoidance is not in itself illegal but, in the quote above, Cameron himself combines that with some forms of tax evasion which should be. It seems to me that putting one’s money into a fund upon which no tax will be charged is pretty “aggressive”…ie “Keep away, you genuine taxpayers; there’s nothing to interest you here!”
In the recent hoo-haa, he has desperately tried to conceal the truth, not to say downright lied. I can’t remember which of his several separate “explanations” claimed he had not profited and would not profit from any offshore trust only later to admit that he had. The fact that he may have paid tax on any profits from them does not delete the claim that he never had any profits.

[naomi24]

Quizmonster, //would not profit from any offshore trust only later to admit that he had.//

Yes, but not from his own investment. Had it been your father's legacy to you, what would you have done with it? This really is utter nonsense.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...the reality here is that all this info had to be dragged out of Dave, bit by bit. Whether he has done anything wrong is besides the point. If he had come across with the truth on the first day, this would all have been put to bed long before now.

Dave is beginning to lose the plot....he presided over a shambles of a Budget and now this. No wonder he wants to retire soon.

[douglas9401]

https://cdn.meme.am/instances/64293204.jpg

[ladybirder]

Whoever's advising him needs sacking.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //Whether he has done anything wrong is besides the point.//

No. It's precisely the point. He hasn't done anything wrong, but nevertheless you want him to resign. This is a witch hunt.

[bazwillrun]

"Whether he has done anything wrong is besides the point."

really !?

so why should he have to justify not doing anything wrong ?

and lets be clear, if this were a lying bore politician, sorry clown then they would have fessed up to doing nothing wrong immediately i suppose..what alternative universe do you live in ?

[bazwillrun]

people like mikey should spend more time and put the same effort into sorting their own sad little lives out rather than putting so much into worrying about others...

as always its the politics of envy so loved by the left...

[jomifl]

So the parallel between pension fund investments and Cameron's dad is to be ignored by those who choose voluntary blindness?

[douglas9401]

Mr Cameron replied: "The two things I'm responsible for are my own financial affairs and for the tax system of the United Kingdom. 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. I have no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds, nothing like that. And so that I think is a very clear description."

Errr, oh yes, errr, there was that other thing that errr..............

THAT'S the problem. Not the arrangement, the money, the location, just the errr, hope that it'll all go away.
Quite childishly naive at best with a hint of arrogance and entitlement.

Looking forward to the Gideon report now.

[-Talbot-]

Unfortunately for Cameron it isn't you that decides what is morally right or wrong, naomi ... it is Mr Cameron himself and he says it is morally wrong.


Considering his attack on Jimmy Carr (Gary Barlow he was pally with so he ignored him)

Why hasn't mikey posted 'hoisted by one's own petard'?

[naomi24]

-Talbot-, perhaps he does think it's morally wrong - and perhaps that's why he isn't doing it.

How about the bandwagon riders here address jomifl's post at 08:59?

[Svejk]

There's not much doubt that we'd all do something similar. (and mikey should be careful casting the first stone, given Labour's prominent tax avoiders) But, MPs are held to a higher standard, especially those that citicize others for the same thing.

[Svejk]

Don't you want to get shot of Cameron, Naomi? You might get a Tory PM when he's gone.