I have a strong feeling that this is going to be a case of “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”. Just a bullshit act to try and hide the fact he’s another tax dodging Tory piece of shit
About time the foreign billionaire resigned from his role as Chancellor. The fact he was ever in the role to begin with, knowing what we now know, is a scandal. Absolute joke government.
I’ve always followed the rules (while ignoring the fact that I play a part in making sure the rules don’t apply to me or my ilk and only to poor people).
He might as well have said nothing.
I legitimately have little doubt he hasn’t broken the rules.
But that’s an indictment of the rules not a defence of the man.
I don’t think anyone has accused Sunak of breaking the rules. The problem is a man in his position using the rules to avoid paying taxes.
He got the job, because the previous brown skinned guy was thrown under the bus by Boris.
History repeats.
There’s a difference between acting within the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
Sing it with me everybody, one more time!
*all rules were followed and no laws were broken*
‘I have always followed the rules’ doesn’t mean anything, given that his party is the one writing the rules – and adding the loopholes.
He is trying to claim its unfair that we mention his wife’s huge income when his ‘rules’ dictate that my wife’s tiny income is incredibly important when it comes to me getting any tax credits.
Literally playing by his own rules, what does he want, a fucking medal.
Perhaps he has always followed the rules, perhaps… just those rules that apply to the ultra wealthy, and his wife may have skirted around the edges of even those.
“I have always followed the rules” is the go to answer for anyone caught doing something they knew was morally wrong.
And it’s a bigger joke when it’s the people who make the rules
Of course he will be found to have complied with the rules as the investigator’s mandate will almost certainly be limited to the question of whether he declared his and his wife’s interests in the register of interests upon taking office.
The two questions that will not be answered are:
whether he tried to deceive the electorate by implying that the non-dom status was required as India did not permit dual citizenship; and
Whether he has breached the Nolan principles by acting whilst conflicted. Declaring the interests is one thing. The real question is, did he participate in any decision making in which a member of the public, having full knowledge of his and his wife’s interests, would consider him to have had a potential bias. It is difficult to conceive how he would not be so conflicted in any decisions relating to income tax as he would have a potential bias from the outset to steer away from any form of taxation that would negatively impact his family, even though it would benefit the country as a whole (I.e. close the loopholes that allow for the rich to avoid taxes before upping NI).
Even if he did disclose his interests at the outset, his subsequent lying defence and the fact that he has participated in decisions that have benefitted wealthy tax avoiders whilst the rest of us struggle with higher taxes and bills whilst he has had a significant conflict of interest means he should go.
Having said that he is no worse than the rest of the self-promoting lying, out of touch, narcissistic, sociopaths in the Tory government. He merely happens to have gotten himself too popular for Bojo’s comfort.
*IF* his claim is true, then the rules need to be seriously tightened up.
Jimmy Carr was technically “following the rules”. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t taking the piss.
Well we clearly know he wasn’t following the Americans rules (Green Card holders are not allowed to serve in a foreign government) so I’m assuming he casually broke UK rules as well.
He’s doing a great job of keeping all of this in the headlines. I’m really not sure what he’s hoping to achieve here.
I have always followed the rules says man who writes the rules and just had to reverse his rule following tax position when it became public…
>However, it is vital that the public can see the ‘big’ things that might influence votes and decision-making.
When your wife has investments on such a large scale, and you are the chancellor, we should know about those investments and have clarity on how your judgements affect them. The fact the Tories refused to add a windfall tax to the energy companies who made huge profits is indicative there could be paranoia about collusion.
France adopted the windfall tax option. Even the chairman of one of the energy companies stated “they had so much money they did not know what to do with it”. This was part of a question from Starmer for Johnson during a PMQ session. France’s energy bills went up 4% where as we took a 50% hit.
Ah covid is back. I think its getting jealous Ukraine is getting all the news
Wonder what would happen if it were, I dunno, me perhaps. I wonder if they would let me off so lightly.
Similarly if I had had a party during lock down and fined. If it would have been the same as them
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I have a strong feeling that this is going to be a case of “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”. Just a bullshit act to try and hide the fact he’s another tax dodging Tory piece of shit
About time the foreign billionaire resigned from his role as Chancellor. The fact he was ever in the role to begin with, knowing what we now know, is a scandal. Absolute joke government.
I’ve always followed the rules (while ignoring the fact that I play a part in making sure the rules don’t apply to me or my ilk and only to poor people).
He might as well have said nothing.
I legitimately have little doubt he hasn’t broken the rules.
But that’s an indictment of the rules not a defence of the man.
I don’t think anyone has accused Sunak of breaking the rules. The problem is a man in his position using the rules to avoid paying taxes.
He got the job, because the previous brown skinned guy was thrown under the bus by Boris.
History repeats.
There’s a difference between acting within the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
Sing it with me everybody, one more time!
*all rules were followed and no laws were broken*
‘I have always followed the rules’ doesn’t mean anything, given that his party is the one writing the rules – and adding the loopholes.
He is trying to claim its unfair that we mention his wife’s huge income when his ‘rules’ dictate that my wife’s tiny income is incredibly important when it comes to me getting any tax credits.
Literally playing by his own rules, what does he want, a fucking medal.
Perhaps he has always followed the rules, perhaps… just those rules that apply to the ultra wealthy, and his wife may have skirted around the edges of even those.
“I have always followed the rules” is the go to answer for anyone caught doing something they knew was morally wrong.
And it’s a bigger joke when it’s the people who make the rules
Of course he will be found to have complied with the rules as the investigator’s mandate will almost certainly be limited to the question of whether he declared his and his wife’s interests in the register of interests upon taking office.
The two questions that will not be answered are:
whether he tried to deceive the electorate by implying that the non-dom status was required as India did not permit dual citizenship; and
Whether he has breached the Nolan principles by acting whilst conflicted. Declaring the interests is one thing. The real question is, did he participate in any decision making in which a member of the public, having full knowledge of his and his wife’s interests, would consider him to have had a potential bias. It is difficult to conceive how he would not be so conflicted in any decisions relating to income tax as he would have a potential bias from the outset to steer away from any form of taxation that would negatively impact his family, even though it would benefit the country as a whole (I.e. close the loopholes that allow for the rich to avoid taxes before upping NI).
Even if he did disclose his interests at the outset, his subsequent lying defence and the fact that he has participated in decisions that have benefitted wealthy tax avoiders whilst the rest of us struggle with higher taxes and bills whilst he has had a significant conflict of interest means he should go.
Having said that he is no worse than the rest of the self-promoting lying, out of touch, narcissistic, sociopaths in the Tory government. He merely happens to have gotten himself too popular for Bojo’s comfort.
*IF* his claim is true, then the rules need to be seriously tightened up.
Jimmy Carr was technically “following the rules”. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t taking the piss.
Well we clearly know he wasn’t following the Americans rules (Green Card holders are not allowed to serve in a foreign government) so I’m assuming he casually broke UK rules as well.
He’s doing a great job of keeping all of this in the headlines. I’m really not sure what he’s hoping to achieve here.
I have always followed the rules says man who writes the rules and just had to reverse his rule following tax position when it became public…
Except no, he wishes to hold his wife’s earnings as private. The fact she made £12m while resident in this country just shows how off this is. The [ministerial code](https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/7999/documents/82638/default/) states
>However, it is vital that the public can see the ‘big’ things that might influence votes and decision-making.
When your wife has investments on such a large scale, and you are the chancellor, we should know about those investments and have clarity on how your judgements affect them. The fact the Tories refused to add a windfall tax to the energy companies who made huge profits is indicative there could be paranoia about collusion.
France adopted the windfall tax option. Even the chairman of one of the energy companies stated “they had so much money they did not know what to do with it”. This was part of a question from Starmer for Johnson during a PMQ session. France’s energy bills went up 4% where as we took a 50% hit.
Ah covid is back. I think its getting jealous Ukraine is getting all the news
Wonder what would happen if it were, I dunno, me perhaps. I wonder if they would let me off so lightly.
Similarly if I had had a party during lock down and fined. If it would have been the same as them