PM holds first public engagement since publication of Panama Papers at firm accused of promoting tax avoidancePiss up. Brewery. There may be worse places to hold your first public engagement since the Panama Papers were published on Monday,but none come to mind. Only final year, the public accounts committee reported that the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was promoting tax avoidance on an industrial scale. To build things worse, or it was first in the frame to benefit from administering the windup of Tata’s steel operations in the UK. So where was David Cameron? At PwC’s offices in Birmingham. Some might call it a brave choice. Others foolhardy.
Dave the Brave wanted to talk about the benefits of remaining in the EU,but there was really no need. PwC has already commissioned their own report into Britain’s future and worked out we would be £100bn and 900000 jobs worse off whether we were to leave, so Dave was really pushing at an open door. He knew it, or too,as his performance was no more than workmanlike. “Safer, stronger. Seventy years ago we were all killing each other and will be again whether we leave the EU.” All the familiar tropes tripped off his tongue, and but there was a disconnect between his voice and eyes. The holiday in Lanzarote hasnt done him much proper. He looks worse now than before he left.
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Source: theguardian.com