There is only limited coverage of the immigration crisis
these days. The right wing media, which
in the UK is
almost all of the media, is more concerned with ‘Brexit,’ that is the
referendum vote concerning the UK’s
membership of the EU. David Cameron, who
you will sadly recall is Prime Minister, has decided to send each and every one
of us a 14 page document telling us why we need to remain part of the EU. This is indeed one of the PM’s ‘PR stunts’
and dwelling on all the previous ones I suggest this one will fail as badly as
they.
Indeed spending some £9 million on this can be considered
upsetting to those like George Osborne the Chancellor who believe in ‘austerity,’
that is spending nothing on the people unless there is something in it for
us. Of course the ‘Brexit’ lobby are up
in arms. They see this as a biased one
sided document so unlike the thin bits of paper they have been sliding under
our doors recently. The thin bits of
paper reflect the Brexit lobby have not got £9 million of government money to
put their own biased view over to the public.
Having watched the Scottish referendum and the abuse of
democracy noted there can these people, who participated happily in that bias,
now object to seeing the same used against themselves? Tsk!
The immigrants? They are still in the mess where they were left but are not 'newsworthy' at the moment. Don't worry they will return when some editor decides he can make use of them.
The only other matter to fill the pages is the not very
surprising news that rich people have been hiding their millions in tax dodging
Panama banks. The leak of millions of pages detailing
famous peoples cash reserves in one sense does not surprise, the only question
is how many have not been named by the media who have seen the papers? These folks often forget to name all the
names, especially if they are their bosses.
Our favourite PR stuntman is once again involved. His father, now deceased, placed a great deal
of money there, David claims not to have earned a penny from this. He forgot to mention his mother (who lost her
job with Oxford Council because of David’s cuts) his mother has money in
another tax haven which he will benefit from when she goes. Now David has
admitted he sold such shares when he became PM for a mere £30,000 and paid tax,
he claims, and has no other tax dodging to speak off.
Hmmm we will see in due course.
What is it that such people get from their money? What can you do with umpteen millions? You by houses, you care for friends and
family and then what? Do a deal to get
another ten million? Every so often we
read of people doing just this and always ensuring they pay the least tax on
their cash. If they paid tax would it
hurt them? Paying £2 million tax and
having a mere £18 million left to spend, would this hurt much? How can you spend such amounts?
Money is required but we put inordinate trust in money. By having loads we can never be hurt, at
least that is the idea. However it fails
all too often. The recent crash cost
many their homes as they spent too much and had too little to cover the loss. This was caused not by buying homes required
but homes and cars they wanted rather than needed. Some lost everything.
One man has won £35 million on the Lottery, I hope he keeps
his mouth shut! The media will follow
him for ever now if he admits his cash.
So will many chancers after their share.
The clever man will buy what he needs wisely and make sensible use of
the rest, keeping quiet about it all the way.
