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Cameron finally admits he owned shares in an offshore trust, which he sold in 2010
British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he and his wife Samantha owned shares in an offshore trust set up by his late father, before selling them for £30,000 in 2010. The PM has faced questions over Blairmore Holdings, an offshore company set up by his late father, Ian, and finally on Thursday he old ITV News he had paid all UK taxes due on the profits he made from the sale of the shares and said the firm had not been set up to avoid tax. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBlairmore Holding?
Apr 08th, 2016 - 08:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Blair more?
That dad of his certainly had an acid humour!
I guess conqueror will send HMS Royal Fart up the Thames to shell Cameron out of no. 16. Or will he?
Apr 08th, 2016 - 09:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0After all, he worked so hard & for so many years; to earn all that loot! Like Putin and most of the others, the Poor Guy should have denied the report!
Apr 08th, 2016 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0What a load of old clap-trap about nuffin. David Cameron cleared his plate years ago before becoming PM. For heavens sake there are greater issues at stake than his former association with his dad's Blair more (but what an apt name!). Give the PM a breather and focus on what is best for UK/Europe and within that context the Falklands.
Apr 08th, 2016 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 03- Read and learn idiot- He inherited it - he did not earn it nor place it there himself! Any interest it accrued before he sold it which he transferred to UK - he will have paid tax in like all others that have similar investments do!
Apr 08th, 2016 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cameron is no different from anyone else in trying to make a bit of money and hang on to it. The only thing this proves is that government is out of control -- it's taking too much of everyone's money, and taking too much control over people's lives, businesses and property. If government was doing only what is necessary, and keeping taxes at a tolerable level, one wouldn't have to take money and business dealings elsewhere to avoid being taxed into poverty.
Apr 08th, 2016 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We have heard the tip of the iceberg, we need to know his tax returns from 2005 when he became leader of the conservative party. So happy the Labour Party are keeping up the pressure on him and not letting it drop, I truly hope this brings him down and we cab get someone more in touch with the British people, because this guy is so far detached from real life.
Apr 08th, 2016 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's not whether he did or didn't, or whether it's illegal or immoral..
Apr 08th, 2016 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As Alastair Campbell put it - once YOU are the story, and it lasts more than 2 days, then the only way to stop the story is to resign.
His arrogance or hubris meant he thought he could get away with slagging off Jimmy Carr and the like for having offshore accounts, and that no-one would notice that he had one. It doesn't matter if it was a different type of account, or whether he paid his tax - he comes over as hypocritical, and he obviously didn't want this to become public. He is now a liability, and he will have to make way for Boris. Gawd 'elp us!
@ 8 womble
Apr 08th, 2016 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“He is now a liability, and he will have to make way for Boris. Gawd 'elp us!”
If you are 'lucky' you could have Teresa 'Tits' May! :o)
Always remember the truism “here's my new boss, same as the old boss”.
Where is [ conqueror ]
Apr 08th, 2016 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I hope your argy special forces aint kidnapped him..
@8
Apr 09th, 2016 - 04:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ he comes over as hypocritical”
Err, well, duh. He is afterall, an ANGLO.
It's like asking salt why it ain't sweet.
”Exists that way Dave..
Apr 09th, 2016 - 05:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'll pick up the keys later.
Jeremy C.
@8 “As Alastair Campbell put it - once YOU are the story, and it lasts more than 2 days, then the only way to stop the story is to resign.”
Apr 09th, 2016 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So you would give the power to the media? Think about it.
(8) & (13)
Apr 09th, 2016 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As we say in Patagonia...:
Never trust a Campbell.
@14 - or as the sign in the Clachaig Inn, Glencoe says - “No dogs or Campbells”.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13 - No, I'm not saying that. He can carry on of course. But he has lost so much credibility with the ham-fisted way he dealt with predictable and straightforward questions. He had over 5 years to come up with an explanation, but he tried to bluster his way out.
Or...... we don't serve Campbells ;-)
Apr 09th, 2016 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@15 Campbell loved to control the media and they would love to control the country. I think we should never give in to media pressure.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Has Cameron done anything illegal? If not then this is just the politics of envy. Give in to media pressure over something a politician did that was not illegal and we take a dangerous step. We don't live by mob rule; we have a democratic process that has to be respected and maintained.
I have no particular love of Cameron as PM but I do care about our democratic system.
@17, Elaine, you don't have to do something illegal to resign. No-one is suggesting illegality.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is hypocrisy and hubris - to think he is untouchable. That's what often brings people down. How can he publicly criticise Jimmy Carr (and reveal his private tax affairs) and others for doing something he did and kept secret. He should come clean, apologise and try to move on. “We are all in it together”, remember.
@18 He has admitted it. He inherited some share and disposed of them. Why should he resign?
Apr 09th, 2016 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No it is not hypocrisy or hubris. He is not untouchable. If he does something illegal he should resign. The media whipping up the mob over something they have decided he should resign over is something we should resist. Unless we want to be entirely controlled by media.
As a PM, I am not a fan but I support the process of our laws.
Sensationalism and 'dirt' ignites passions and sell newspapers.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Proper perspective needs to be maintained.
Its difficult to discern what all the kerfuffle is about. Knowing nothing about Cameron my own research in the public domain months ago revealed that his father had deposited funds off-shore. If I was aware of this how come journalists and the Labour Party are now feigning surprise?
Apr 09th, 2016 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@21 TH
Apr 09th, 2016 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0especially the professional muckrakers...
Keep Calm, at least no farm animals were harmed this time.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0except in Santa Cruz, perhaps.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And yet,
Apr 09th, 2016 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0According to the latest polls.
David is still ahead, Amazing that, considering the bad week he has had,
maybe he will have a better month ahead.
“Keep Calm, at least no farm animals were harmed this time”
Apr 09th, 2016 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I will like to add to my comment that somehow animals are always involved in Cameron scandals...
David Cameron earns £28,000 a year from Tiger Tiger - ultimate hen party crap nightclub.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/06/the-cameron-network-inherited-wealth-and-family-companies#
So envious.
Apr 09th, 2016 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@26 Marcos
Apr 10th, 2016 - 02:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ ...ultimate hen party crap nightclub”
- you would know about that.
How many times you been?
LOL, weak-minded twit.
David Cameron has still been a safe pair of hands after the banking crisis, by Blair's Labour party that extended rich-poor difference. He's not dealing with excessive figures compared with housing in south-east England. And he's sorted a lot of his own issues out 6 years ago, plus wider issues in politics.
Apr 10th, 2016 - 08:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0I would drag his accussers' through the mill of judgement to see how they stood up to scrutiny.
(Isn't a certain CFK going to court for millions siphoned off from govt. accounts?!) I don't see a comparison.
Plus, David Cameron has stood up for the Falklands and UN rights, self-determination versus Corbyn who's allegiances are mis-placed, plus has no understanding how our nuclear deterrent works in the viewpoint of those who would wish us harm. Corbyn is a threat to this country and the Tories should give more to the poor and tax the rich more to undermine Corbyn.
I can't help remembering how he berated Jimmy Carr for operating a similar scheme. At that time his family were also involved in off-shore accounts.
Apr 10th, 2016 - 09:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not so smug now !!
Its funny how lefties pounce on the littlest things on the right while they have sensational scandals left unsaid on their own side.
Apr 10th, 2016 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0How come nobody is talking about Bill Clinton's many trips with Prince Andrew to Child Rape Island?
Inconvenient I suppose.
Better to make much ado about nothing attacking the right.
@31 YB/Luci
Apr 10th, 2016 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“How come nobody is talking about Bill Clinton's many trips with Prince Andrew to Child Rape Island? ”
Wow!!
That is quite something to say about 'your' President!!
I would have thought any real USA American would be deeply ashamed.
Still, a 'necessary' diversion, I suppose... !
Here's a good one,
“Lucifer”: Defender of the Right
LOL, the irony and the triple entendre are killing me!!!
27 ElaineB
Apr 10th, 2016 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“You can tell a man who boozes,
By the company he chooses”
Cameron relationship with animals nothing to be envious about.
@33 Marcos
Apr 10th, 2016 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're off topic.
Funny obsession you have - sex with animals.
Sweet dreams.
Apparently David has done nothing wrong,
Apr 10th, 2016 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so why is labour persistently hounding him,
if he is innocent then leave him alone,
so they say.
President or not both Clinton's should be in jail.
Apr 10th, 2016 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@36 YB/Lucy
Apr 10th, 2016 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow!!
First YOU are deciding who is educated enough to vote??
And now, YOU are deciding who should be in jail? ? ?
As a USA American with your super-duper “genius” IQ, you should know that is against America's Democratic principles, and Rights and Freedoms.
@37 YB is a very bitter man.
Apr 10th, 2016 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0YB/Lucifer/Chronic Trump is stumped, Cruz is… .creepy, Hillary and Bernie are still battling. Will she be to tbe left of Obama? You bet!
Apr 10th, 2016 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Meanwhile Argentina comes begging in the City of London. We are going to make them pay through the nose. Shouldnt have been sooo nasty my Preciosssss
@38 , 39 Elaine and THE Voice
Apr 11th, 2016 - 02:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ted Cruz is creepy!
The Republican Party is shovelling tens of millions of dollars at Cruz to fund his campaigning against Trump!!
Can you believe it!!??
They have shown their true selves - perverting 'democratic' outcome.
The Republicans want America to be an Oligarchy.
Cruz is scarier, because he might win and has GOP backing!
Check out his policies.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=+Gollywog&aq=f&oq=&aqi=p5-k0d0t0&fkt=2317&fsdt=383360&mshr=&csll=&action=<oken=b041648f&gws_rd=ssl#q=Ted+Cruz+issue+stances&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPge8QYxi3w8sc9YSnfSWtOXmN05xIIyM_JLMlMzkzM8ywuLk0tFtLi4kKICclw8Upx6ufqG5hnmZVUajBIcXMhuELsXKxgXTwA3FlMyFsAAAA&eob=m.07j6ty//short
Scroll down and contrast Cruz's platform to Bernie Sanders and the other candidates.
Cruz will take the US back 100 years. He will outlaw abortion. He will remove Federal Gov. oversight from Education and Environment. He will disband the Board of Education, the EPA, and send America to war.
Cruz: “What's good for America is good for the world”
I can see why FAKE 'Americans' like YB support the likes of Trump and Cruz.
It's a great way to discredit real Americans.
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