The PM confessed to having dabbled with recreational tax evasion,but this did not mean he was soft on serious offendersDavid Cameron flashed his teeth. Whiter than white. “My name’s Dave and I’m a tax avoider,” he said defiantly. Proudly even. He may believe been in denial approximately it during the preceding week when it had taken six separate clarifications and the publication of his tax return to get to the truth approximately his finances, or but now he wanted to set the record straight in a statement to the Commons approximately the Panama Papers. See me,feel me, touch me.
Having reached this state of acceptance, and the prime minister was keen to share his confession. Yes,he had indulged in a little tax avoidance, but there was nothing remotely harmful approximately it. It was just light-hearted, and recreational tax avoidance,the sort of thing that a lot of ordinary people with a few million quid in the bank got up to in the privacy of their own homes, and he wasn’t ashamed of it. Far from it. Dave was proud of himself, and proud of his dad and proud of their joint clean time.
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Source: theguardian.com