Thread: Will we ever get to the truth about Ashcroft's tax status
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Old 08-03-2010, 17:39   #116
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Re: Will we ever get to the truth about Ashcroft's tax status
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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
I've no idea but you seem to be of the view that it's only 'Tory' liars who need to be sacked and tax status only matters when it's 'Tory' tax that isn't being paid?

How odd it is that when, over the past 13 years, New Labour has been the architect of a cynical form of government driven by lies and spin and have taken us to war based on dodgy dossiers, you say nothing whatsoever about it yet when a Tory donor (whose party is not in power) is accused of breaking personal promises with regard to his tax status you jump on the moral bandwagon. One minute it's all about the missing tax millions and the next minute it's all about broken personal promises. A very nice case of selective memory and double standards that...

I notice you again skirted around Mandelson's history and current status at the very heart of government - a man who currently has far more direct impact on what happens in this country than Ashcroft does and probably ever will. If Cameron were to copy the Bliar and Brown commitment to bringing an end to parliamentary sleaze all he'd have to do would be to sack Ashcroft and then bring him back when it suits! I dare say if he did that though you'd have plenty to say about it
The fact that he wrote to William Hague and promised that he will become resident in the UK for tax purposes and then it turns out that he had no intention of doing so would be be seen as a lie by a blind monkey, but you say that you don't know. What would it take to make you agree that he lied?

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Originally Posted by foreverwar View Post
Speaking of residencies and taxes, some interesting stuff surfacing in Guardian and Times re a previous Prime Minister.

Taxes1

Taxes2

Passports

I wonder if we'll have a non-dom ex-PM after the election (as it would be sub-optimal before)?
As far as I am aware Tony Blair is not making any substantial contributions to the Labour Party, unless you know otherwise. I also don't think his influence stretches as far in the Labour party anymore, as Lord Ashcroft's does in the Tory Party.
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