I can't see another thread on this recent topic - apologies if I have missed it.
Hard to articulate this in a single post and so I won't try to cover it all but I have read what I can and it still seems to me that if you put your personal views re Cameron, his politics etc. to one side (tough I know) but this whole story has been drawn out and the reporting has implied he has done something terribly wrong. I suspect that most people have been left with the impression that he has. Now this has gone to the point of suggesting all public figures (including journalist :D :D should publish their tax and wider financial affairs.
Has the world gone mad?
The implication now being that anyone that has invested in any institution that has gained in some way from a lower tax status that the individual should be ashamed and not fit for office etc. Taken literally, this probably means most people that have ever owned shares, everyone with a pension, etc. etc.
Worse still, apparently this is retrospective. So the mood, being led by Corbyn (in great seriousness) is that irrespective of common practice or the law at the time that the morale code expected by Jeremy is that no one should have invested that way. Today he is demanding 'information' of Cameron's financial affairs prior to 2010 and yet still hasn't released his own detail (having promised it last week due to problems with his paperwork :) ).
I know it's emotive. I agree with the stamping out of tax evasion but if tax avoidance (I think I have this the right way round) is a reason to retrospectively persecute people then surely the Tax Accountants are the devils incarnate and should take their place at the top of most hated profession list.
I am just finding this Victorian attitude that pervades society of late is going too far and this fascination for what happened years ago instead of dealing with today is doing my head in.
This isn't intended to be a political point albeit the 2 sides/characters here are political by definition My bigger concern is this weird culture emerging where we are taking a holier than thou approach, doing it retrospectively and in some sort of over zealous, puritanical way.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition...........
Hard to articulate this in a single post and so I won't try to cover it all but I have read what I can and it still seems to me that if you put your personal views re Cameron, his politics etc. to one side (tough I know) but this whole story has been drawn out and the reporting has implied he has done something terribly wrong. I suspect that most people have been left with the impression that he has. Now this has gone to the point of suggesting all public figures (including journalist :D :D should publish their tax and wider financial affairs.
Has the world gone mad?
The implication now being that anyone that has invested in any institution that has gained in some way from a lower tax status that the individual should be ashamed and not fit for office etc. Taken literally, this probably means most people that have ever owned shares, everyone with a pension, etc. etc.
Worse still, apparently this is retrospective. So the mood, being led by Corbyn (in great seriousness) is that irrespective of common practice or the law at the time that the morale code expected by Jeremy is that no one should have invested that way. Today he is demanding 'information' of Cameron's financial affairs prior to 2010 and yet still hasn't released his own detail (having promised it last week due to problems with his paperwork :) ).
I know it's emotive. I agree with the stamping out of tax evasion but if tax avoidance (I think I have this the right way round) is a reason to retrospectively persecute people then surely the Tax Accountants are the devils incarnate and should take their place at the top of most hated profession list.
I am just finding this Victorian attitude that pervades society of late is going too far and this fascination for what happened years ago instead of dealing with today is doing my head in.
This isn't intended to be a political point albeit the 2 sides/characters here are political by definition My bigger concern is this weird culture emerging where we are taking a holier than thou approach, doing it retrospectively and in some sort of over zealous, puritanical way.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition...........
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