Panama Papers: 'House Of Cards' Chirps British PM David Cameron On Twitter
Cameron, 2015 tweet on taxes:
I have a simple view that if you have done the right thing – worked, saved and paid your taxes – you should be rewarded, not punished.
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) May 2, 2015
HOC, from the rafters:
.@David_Cameron pic.twitter.com/BrgljZmAHu — House of Cards (@HouseofCards) April 7, 2016
Ruthless. Being called corrupt is one thing; every powerful person is considered corrupt on some level. But being called Frank-Underwood-corrupt is a whole different bear. Guy threw the hot chick from Shooter in front of a train and framed the suicide of Russo. Also shares cigs with his wife and shares his wife with the Secret Service detail. That’s real psycho stuff and you never want to be compared to it.
As the Guardian reports, David Cameron has admittedly had “a difficult few days” since the Panama Papers implicated him of benefiting from an offshore company set up by his late father. England’s Labor MP, who’s a member of the Treasury selection committee, is calling for Cameron’s resignation for having “covered up and misled” Brits.
The obvious implication is that he profited from funds in offshore accounts but did not pay English taxes on those profits.
Are you seeing a theme with the Panama Papers perpetrators yet?
Cameron yesterday admitted to being a beneficiary but added, “I obviously can’t point to the source of every bit of money and dad’s not around for me to ask the questions now.”
He’s taking heat for this admission, mostly because both his spokesman and Downing Street have offered four different bullshit statements over the course of the week:
Downing Street initially insisted it was a private matter, but Cameron then said he had “no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds”. His spokesman later clarified: “The prime minister, his wife and their children do not benefit from any offshore funds.”
The Panama Papers leak has already eliminated the prime minister of Iceland and the head of the Chilean branch of Transparency International, a group that loves transparency. I don’t think I have to tell you that, while those figures are important, seeing the fall of a major world power’s prime minister would be the heaviest blow the leak has dealt yet.