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Gordon Brown says global tax haven clampdown requires Britain's membership in the EU
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Gordon Brown says global tax haven clampdown requires Britain's membership in the EU
This will be the same EU that appointed as its president Jean-Claude Juncker, the man under whose leadership the EU member state Luxembourg transformed itself into one of the largest tax havens in the world?
Every day, the Remainers arguments become more and more absurd.
This will be the same EU that appointed as its president Jean-Claude Juncker, the man under whose leadership the EU member state Luxembourg transformed itself into one of the largest tax havens in the world?
Every day, the Remainers arguments become more and more absurd.
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If Gordon Brown said the sun comes up in the morning, I would have to draw back the curtains to check!
The EU isn't the world Gordon. Most of the tax havens aren't in the EU and several are British dependencies with the Queen as head of state!
It just gets more laughable.
The dishonesty of those who would have the UK remain is quite amazing. They just find something that people care about and say it's under threat if we leave.
It's doubly dishonest because almost always it's remaining in the EU that is causing the problem, an exit would lesson the problem. Think of the burden on the NHS for example.
He'll have few supporters, he's considered untrustworthy.
That maybe laying it on thick but being in the EU does make it a lot easier to co-ordinate action.
Well yes, but don't let common sense stand in the way of a good whinge! Brown's own words were of course a lot more subtle, but then you admit that, you have to address the actual argument, not just take pot-shots at what someone didn't say.
It's inevitable that the EU is in a much stronger position to take a stronger, effective, co-ordinated approach to talking tax fraud, so long as we bother to elect politicians who will prioritise that. If we keep on voting for Tories, or the international equivalents, they will just put it on the back burner while they decide what to do with their own inherited millions.
It's only a theory because the reality is very different isn't it?
Ten to twenty years ago this "theory of the EU" was trotted out and many people across Europe bought into it.
But the reality of the deal is that the EUs top-down we-know-best concept just does not work.
To be honest I may detest the man, but he did do something - Employee Benefit Trusts - which are an esoteric form of tax avoidance were outlawed on his watch. The registration of anti-avoidance schemes was also under his watch so it is not true that he did nothing.
nice use of childish language there.:D:D
please point out any brexiter on this forum who wants the UK to head for isolation.
as for the thread topic, how do we sort this global issue when only 28 countries are in the EU? wait for the rest of the world to join? brown the idiot has spoken yet again, before engaging his brain (perhaps his shoelaces are too tight).
I'm only surprised Sepp Blatter isn't running it.
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Yes, he did a lot of things during his term in office. Bringing the UK economy to its knees is his lasting legacy. The man is an incompetent bufoon. He said only 6,000 Europeans would come to work here when he sold British working people down the river. He lied.
Why??
Since when has the U.K government been hide behind the curtains shy about collecting taxes?
So let's leave the EU and you can vote for the party that you want to run the country without interference. Democracy. Great.
Not at all absurd it makes sense. If you take off your "everything is rosy on the other side of the fence" glasses for a moment you might see that.
Doesn't that happen now then?