The so called Paradise Papers seem to be dominating the news today. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, and just when they had found a new low, they manage to sink even further.
I for one am getting increasingly cheesed off with being on the PAYE system. PAYE affords me absolutely no opportunity to cheat and to shift my tax obligation onto the shoulders of those less able to pay. It simply isn’t fair and it’s not what I expect from a Conservative government. Shame on them.
I was also amused to read that U2’s fancy spectacled, refugee hugging front man Bonio has been squirrelling his obscene wealth away, out of sight of the tax man. I can still see him, not so very long ago on the telly, guilt tripping us all into dig deep in order to buy to a Big Mac for a starving African. But little did we know that if he’d paid his taxes that Big Mac could have, “gone large” with extra chips and unlimited Coke refills. Oh the shame Bonio.
But the good news is that Aston Merrygold has controversially crashed out of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. The tax sideshow will soon be overshaddowed by this dancing news and we can all carry on being exploited and taken for fools.