Fraudster Chaytor convicted

[flash]

Oh, ok, Chaytor is certainly bent and deserves punishment but I am just concered that so many others about whom the public were outraged seem to be avoiding any real punishment.

I recall a lot who had just to pay the money back after they effectively stole it in the first place. The capital gains tax flippers especially, I do consider them to be theives. If we did that we might well face procecution (at least I think so).

Exactly. But this is what I was getting at above. They had a fucked up set of rules to work within and this was inevitably what was going to happen. Now what do you want to do about this - have them in jail as well? Correct me if I'm wrong but our Chief Secretary to the Treasury did this or something along those lines:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...chief-avoided-capital-gains-tax-on-house.html

Key statement: "There is no suggestion that Mr Alexander has broken any tax laws"

Their world was fucked up in the first place and still is - but still you could send him to jail along with the rest of them....... This is what I'm getting at, the media seems hell bent on raising public outrage and sending people on witch hunts and how does that help the situation?

 

[tbaldwin]

There was a female MP who was somewhere like Luton who spent something like £22k on a house in Southampton which had nothing to do with her work.

Nothing seems to have become of her.

Also nothing to the flippers.

What about them?

And what about all the tax dodgers like GEORGE OSBORNE......

 

[weltweit]

It just seems some of them are teflon coated and others are not.

Most strange, I have forgotten most of the names involved but plenty seem to have escaped the noose!

 

[weltweit]

And what about all the tax dodgers like GEORGE OSBORNE......

I am not excusing that.

But I do think the woman from Luton was worse.

 

[pk]

Face it, Chaytor is the proverbial lamb to the slaughter... we all know there are at least 20 worthy of jail, but this is what they throw to the lions to appease the masses so they can get back to their Eastenders at the end of the day, yeah?

It's the same as the banks and the bonuses.

Let's talk about Ponzi schemes but let's keep quiet about the bigger picture...

 

[flash]

Face it, Chaytor is the proverbial lamb to the slaughter... we all know there are at least 20 worthy of jail, but this is what they throw to the lions to appease the masses so they can get back to their Eastenders at the end of the day, yeah?

Exactly - welcome to the morally fucked up, fair "we are all in this together " country in which we live in. When the MP's aren't even all in it together, how can they expect us to believe we are.

Re: the point about Osbourne, it's the dubious "avoidance isn't illegal but evasion is" principle - as it's natural I guess to not to want to pay more tax than you have to. It doesn't help I guess but if he can legally set up a trust fund

BTW good points in the Jack Straw thread.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Cheater going down must be applauded. When the others go down I shall smile some more. That smile will be not as big as it should be as there are many more that should be going down. If you looked hard enough probably half of the cunts on this issue alone. (For years I've been moaning about Roy & Anne Keane, why the fuck are they not doing porridge???). And that don't even start on the bent shit that the other half do to secure their directorships once they quit with their guilt edged pensions.

In my world the growth industry would be wall building. There's enough of the cunts that need lining up against them.