I'm guessing that this is going to come and bite him big time.

**OwlHoot** · 26 April 2012, 17:10

He's a sad whiny little man, although I suppose having to mix with LibDems officially for several years is enough to break anyone's spirit. Basically they've pretty much hamstrung the Tories into a state of ineffectual mediocrity.

If he'd had any bottle he'd have picked a fight with them after a year or two, and triggered an election, which the Tories might well have won while still in their honeymoon period and with Milliband heading Labour.

**TimberWolf** · 26 April 2012, 17:37

And then he announced more ICTs over lunch with tax dodger supremo Blair.

**bobspud** · 26 April 2012, 19:03

I just don't think he realises who it is that votes for him. I know very few tories that are on the dole or low incomes. if he thinks he is going to overrun the Guardian reading crowd with a jump to left he's badly mistaken. All he has managed to do so far is make sure I never bother to vote again. I wonder how hard it would be to organise a walk out by every small business in the UK...

Just think if every contractor in the UK said sod it. Im not working for 2 weeks in May on mass. Im willing to bet that when the next quarters vat figures rolled in and the CT take plummeted there would be some very worried faces in the treasury. Im ****ed off with being trodden on like a criminal when I pay substantial and legal taxes for the UK government to piss up the wall.

**AtW** · 26 April 2012, 19:14

He should first comment (with full disclosure) on this -

Cameron family fortune made in tax havens | Politics | The Guardian

**vetran** · 26 April 2012, 23:56

Shark meet CMD's butt.

What the public servant did looked IR35 caught, they should have popped the new IR35 team on him. Done an audit on 'IR35 suspects' over £50K and had those as well. can't be more than a few thousand of them. The ones who you have to keep tell make a deal, the rest dump and claim you are shaking out useless middle management in the civil service.

They have beefed up the compliance teams on offshoring and artificial tax avoiding structures, they should have some successes by now, try a few test cases, if they lose in court tighten the rules. If they win maybe you will scare a few people.

You aren't going to see the big guys becoming full tax payers but you could possibly encourage them to behave a bit better publicly.

**Lockhouse** · 27 April 2012, 07:16

What about HMRC who sold all their property to a company based in a tax haven?

The Tories are done for.

**vetran** · 27 April 2012, 07:58

Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post

What about HMRC who sold all their property to a company based in a tax haven?

The Tories are done for.

That was done on Snot Goblins watch.

**Doggy Styles** · 27 April 2012, 08:09

Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post

What about HMRC who sold all their property to a company based in a tax haven?

The Tories are done for.

No, that was Labour.

**Lockhouse** · 27 April 2012, 08:10

Originally posted by vetran View Post

That was done on Snot Goblins watch.

So Cameron's not going to mix with them then?

I'm guessing that this is going to come and bite him big time.