Tony Blair and the £8million tax 'mystery'
08 January 2012, 03:10 PM
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Tony Blair and the £8million tax 'mystery'
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair channelled millions of pounds through a complicated web of companies and paid just a fraction in tax, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...x-mystery.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...x-mystery.html
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08 January 2012, 08:27 PM
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But that other 'dyed-in-the-wool' socialist, you know the one, Billy Liar's best mate, has been working his socks off for his constituents ... http://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.u...lection-threat ...
Good to see Flash's famous Protestant work ethic here .... 
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GORDON BROWN faces calls to stand down as an MP because he has been on money-spinning engagements around the world and barely working for his constituents.
The Scottish Sunday Express can today reveal the jet-setting ex-Prime Minister earned £1million in 2011 and spent up to 100 days on trips pursuing his own private business.
The Scottish Sunday Express can today reveal the jet-setting ex-Prime Minister earned £1million in 2011 and spent up to 100 days on trips pursuing his own private business.
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09 January 2012, 12:19 AM
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And will HMRC investigate him. I doubt it. They will concentrate on small business, as is their remit for this year.
Seems the Government, or was and is, can do what they like, but Joe Bloggs trying to make a living, is to be given some grief.
Seems the Government, or was and is, can do what they like, but Joe Bloggs trying to make a living, is to be given some grief.
09 January 2012, 11:38 AM
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It died with Clause IV and Clause IV had to go after '89 and '89 had to happen after Gorbachev and Gorbachev had to happen after only partially evolved humans had a go at implementing the ideas of the highly evolved Marx. There aren't enough clever people in the World with commensurate purity of heart for the principles of socialism to have primacy and prevail and deliver on its promise. The very best we can hope for is Christian capitalism which, apparently, Blair represents. I didn't realise tax-dodging was in its charter.
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09 January 2012, 11:57 AM
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It died with Clause IV and Clause IV had to go after '89 and '89 had to happen after Gorbachev and Gorbachev had to happen after only partially evolved humans had a go at implementing the ideas of the highly evolved Marx. There aren't enough clever people in the World with commensurate purity of heart for the principles of socialism to have primacy and prevail and deliver on its promise. The very best we can hope for is Christian capitalism which, apparently, Blair represents. I didn't realise tax-dodging was in its charter.
As for Blair it was he who drove the change in the Labour Party to remove and replace Clause IV and he has stated that he prefers being thoght of as a social democrat than a socialist!
Either way he seems to be a tax dodger so it's probably academic really
09 January 2012, 12:25 PM
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Exactly, sad though that is. A difference between an ideal and reality I guess.
As for Blair it was he who drove the change in the Labour Party to remove and replace Clause IV and he has stated that he prefers being thoght of as a social democrat than a socialist!
Either way he seems to be a tax dodger so it's probably academic really
As for Blair it was he who drove the change in the Labour Party to remove and replace Clause IV and he has stated that he prefers being thoght of as a social democrat than a socialist!
Either way he seems to be a tax dodger so it's probably academic really
09 January 2012, 01:12 PM
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It died with Clause IV and Clause IV had to go after '89 and '89 had to happen after Gorbachev and Gorbachev had to happen . There aren't enough clever people in the World with commensurate purity of heart for the principles of socialism to have primacy and prevail and deliver on its promise. The very best we can hope for is Christian capitalism which, apparently, Blair represents. I didn't realise tax-dodging was in its charter.
Racist!
09 January 2012, 01:19 PM
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Any human who's unable to master his own desires and defer to the greater good is, in my book, under-evolved. If Frodo had led the storming of the Winter Palace we'd have been alright.
09 January 2012, 01:33 PM
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I'm not sure cster was aiming to justify, perhaps more trying to understand.