Hypocrite Labour The Day After Lambasting The Queen

[lindapalmara]

After all the talk of tax Evasion Labour is also at it.

Don't get me wrong I am totally against anyone who avoids tax, who tend to be super rich to begin with like Lewis Hamilton who, by landing his private jet once in the Isle of man can avoid £3.3m VAT which should go to the exchequer, it's a bit rich for an onto be involved.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5056363/Jeremy-Corbyn-great-tax-hypocrite.html

[dannyk13]

Corbyn is a great believer in "Do as I say not as I do"

[Cryptical]

Tax is a curse.
I think it started with the tithe,and we are all being screwed today.
Plus our taxes are being given away in foreign aid etc.

[Baldric]

Yep, that ^^^ sounds about right.

[Baldric]

That was @ Dannys' post

[Kromovaracun]

//Tax is a curse.//

Only insofar as street lighting, waste disposal, policing, functioning militaries etc. are a curse...

[Togo]

Don't forget "benefits".

[Spicerack]

And foreign aid. Yay.

[ToraToraTora]

the basic problem is the insidious temporary law of direct taxation. Abolish that and move forward. This all goes away.

[Kromovaracun]

Indirect tax cannot raise enough to fund features of modern societies (e.g. state pension).

[Gromit]

All a bit desperate trying to paint Labour as hypocrits.
While the Conservative Party’s largest donor, who has given the party £millions, has evoided huge amouts of tax, the best the Mail can come up with is:
// Mr McDonnell receives a Westminster Council pension which comes from a fund managed by a Guernsey-based firm. //
McDonnell has no say over who Conservative Westminster Council appoint to run their pension fund. And McDonnell never worked for Westminster Council, so it might be some legacy from the GLC.

Yep really desperate reporting.

[cassa333]

For goodness sake they are all as bad as each other. The hypocrites are the ones who shout fowl loudest usually (but not always) first.

Labour are the biggest hypocrites because they purport to be of the people for the people. But as Diane Abbott shows that ain't the case.

Anyway... super rich know how to pay less taxes... is the pope catholic and do bears sheit in the woods. Yes of course. We knew that already. So it is only righteous indignation because others aren't in that situation. Given the opportunity I bet 90% of the population would do the same.

[webbo3]

I’ll just leave this here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/labour-avoided-paying-tax-on-43-million-worth-of-profits-last-ye/

[gulliver1]

Why is someone on this post using Bonnie Langford as his avatar?

[Deskdiary]

From the Telegraph article...

"In 2015, Labour ran a surplus of £4.3 million, but paid zero tax, while the Conservative Party ran a surplus of just over £1 million and paid £238,000 in tax."

That is absolutely priceless.

[naomi24]

We can add the Guardian, the newspaper that revealed all this news, to the list of hypocrites.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/will-the-guardian-now-investigate-its-own-tax-arrangements/

[cassa333]

People in glass houses and all that comes to mind.