To me that is the key issue. There is no suggestion of illegality or wrong-doing here. Tice has, in fact claimed he was investigated by HMRC and received a tax refund as a result. So the question is a political and ethical one.
Why would a person who so much wanted to be a UK politician and who has made patriotism such a key part of his supposed appeal have an offshore trust?
To stop cunts being able to spend his money.
So, he paid 100% of the taxes he was legally required to?
The problem here is?
The problem is that Richard Tice is not as unimpeachably nationalist as Richard Murphy.
There is no suggestion of illegality or wrong-doing here.
The down-market ham (formerly from Downham Market) hasn’t forgotten the Bank of Belize and doesn’t want to move into a prefab bungalow.
To avoid taxation on imaginary gains in the value of the assets resulting solely from the fall in the value of sterling during a Labour government (e.g. an unchaged $1000 suddenly moving from £208 6s 8d to £357 2s 10d under Attlee or from £357 14p to £416 66p under Wilson)
I like the sound of an offshore trust. How do I get one?
Oh dear. A quick google suggests that my first step would be to get much much richer than I am. I do hope that Sir Two-Tier will put that right so that even working people can take advantage of the arrangement.
This is reprehensible behaviour from the blighted Potato, but as it’s Murphy entirely predictable.
The man who constantly rails against populism, makes a populist comment and blog and his comment is speculative, opportunistic, politically partisan and, again because it’s Murphy, wrong.
And of course, he’s in bed with the equally repellent Jolyon Maugham, whose continuing membership of the Bar I find astonishing. I live in hope that when the prosecutions over trans malpractice start, Maugham is one
of those in the dock.
I wonder if any other MP’s have benefited from offshore trusts
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3060029/Labour-s-Hodge-1-5m-shares-offshore-tax-haven-Senior-politician-accused-hypocrisy-following-earlier-fierce-criticism-tax-avoidance.html
Move along, nothing to see
The Mirror asked Jo Maugham KC of the Good Law Project and me for comments on this. Our sentiments were pretty similar.
Because you’re both twats?
why would anyone who says they believe so strongly in the government of the UK
Is Ritchie retarded or something? Is that his problem?
Steve
I don’t think he is retarded – he is evil in a fashion that many thought impossible outside of a work of fiction, however
Steve
From the Sopranos:
‘Wash your F&&King mouth out with soap – he was slow’
(I can’t say that Murphy is handsome like the Late Actor, George Raft – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Raft as he is a fat b^%&ard but I know you enjoy that show….)
Funny how we have a PM who has a special law protecting his pension and yet its Reform MP’s who are investigated and singled out for tax avoidance
VP – I believe Furio was referring to Ritchie and Jolyon.
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BraveFart: ’…whose continuing membership of the Bar I find astonishing.’
Really? Membership of a profession that accepts its job is to lie with a straight face and defend the indefensible if paid for that?