Yassir, Massa President! Oh, Boy! Let's have no more of that talk about Tony Blair being George Bush's poodle.

Of course there's method in Cameron's madness. HIs party can see that the Republican flakes running for the Presidency have a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected.
Sixty percent of All-Americans are against further military adventures abroad and now Motown is really beginning to hum!
Naturally Obama's team have factored in this special relationship public relations spin. The Republican contenders have buried themselves and now Obama is merely placing a tombstone on each of their graves.
Obama might even have Dave sit in the pilot's seat.

Sucker

I think it must be a full moon, Mr Dangertomyself is really angry today.

I take it the 500,000 UK nationals who have bank accounts in Switzerland are only on minimum wage?

I would if Tim Geithner ever blamed the snow?

Well we could abolish the NHS and welfare state and use the 230 Billion saving A YEAR and spend that on stimulus... not the right thing to do though. What if that was included as 'stimulus'? the article then becomes irrelevant.
UK borrowing numbers out today, they were very good (AGAIN).
Is that why Blanchflower and Krugman and all the other totally bonkers left wing 'economists' gone quiet? Or is it because somehow Europe has stabilised for now and this bodes well for the UK- wait for the left to start saying the upturn was due to outside factors (it will in part). Or are they quiet because of the unemploy,emt DISASTER in europe, one that doesn't even compare to UK numbers.
All the left EVER does is skew and misrepresent information to the detriment of those they are supposed to defend. They need to read the story of the boy who cried wolf because people are sick of their lies-just one stupid distortion after another.
A new real left wing party needed, one that defends the weakest. Oh hang on, that'l be what cameron's doing...

"...and curb the reckless financial practices that have cost our taxpayers dearly."

There is no way this part is of joint authorship. Cameron would have us believe it was all Labour's fault and refuses to implement changes to the banking system till 2019. He wants to keep taxation on millionaires to a minimum and force people to work for benefits, which rules "...to put people back to work" out of his authorship too.

This is vague enough to be his: "We're committed to expanding the trade and investment that support millions of jobs in our two countries."

A " Kleptocratic Thugocracy " still winging I see.

Is Canada a " Kleptocratic Thugocracy" too ?

You still not able to explain why " Immigrants " still feel the need to open a bank account in Switzerland. What about Ireland, France, Holland, Denmark, surely have the ability to offer bank accounts to these Foreign Nationals?

I sense your argument is not stacking up Mrdangertomyself.

"Obama introduced an extended payroll tax cut, Cameron raised VAT to a record high of 20 per cent."

You mean Obama extended a payroll tax cut and Cameron raised the top tax rate 10pp to 50%.

Oh wait no we're not allowed to criticise that tax hike, because it is a glorious class war tax hike.

"US unemployment is now at its lowest level since the recession, while UK unemployment is at its highest level"

And yet UK and US employment are virtually identical, which is why you didn't chart them.

Don't worry George, most people here are too partisan to care if your analysis is swiss cheese.

Fox
u qualify as a bona fide reason as to why mankind will probably obliterate itself in a nuke winter. Your inability to interpret reality, your repeated insistence on a point and then denial when faced with actually having to back it and refusal to carry ANY logical thought process through to a conclusion undermines your camp. You confuse opinion with fact and have zero mathematical ability or financial understandings, yet it does not prevent you from commenting on economics regularly. You are a village idiot who undermines the very cause he seeks to further but is too unaware to see or feel that.
You'd vote for a pile of excrement as long as it had a red rosette on it.

First of all, you are obsessed with the idea that these are all Swiss bank accounts. As I pointed out, they could be US or Pakistani or Japanese or anywhere. All we know is they are not UK.

"Please explain the logic, a say a Canadian or Russian national, who resides in this country, yet has a bank account in Switzerland, it is some sort of biological urge?"

Because Russia is a kleptocratic thugocracy? Because the Russia tax authorities have been know to not only steal money from people, but to murder anyone who investigates it? Again, what a moronic question!

And were you even paying attention when I pointed out that UK tax authorities REQUIRE you to use an offshore account if you want to be treated as non-domiciled?

"I can these being another bad day at the office for you Mrdangertomyself."

To be fair this sentence makes more sense than most of your arguments. Good effort.

"I seriously doubt that any so-called independent report is either a, fully independent... or b, expressly intended to make the process happen quickly"

There you go then. By simply sneering at it, you prove it wrong. No need for facts or arguments, which require dreadful amounts of effort.

Could it be that Obama is pursuing protectionist policies ?

China's growth is slowing too.

It always comes to this in the end.

Assuming they pay any tax at all. What are tax loopholes? who benefits from those tax loopholes.

Slavery was popular once.

I read that the 1% pay 24% of the total income tax take in this country. Whether it is 24% or 30%, it is an enormous amount. It sort of renders the argument that "it makes little difference" rather redundant. I would also argue, because I am a jealous lefty, that they can afford it. £150,000 and beyond as an annual salary is just beyond the imagination of most people. The other thing - that it is a dis-incentive to entrapreneurs - is also rubbish. It is actually a spur as they realise to make a real difference to their income would require a major increase in income, so they try harder. Come on, if they were going to go - they would have gone. It is political posturing. However, back to the point - what have Camoron or Osborne actually done to encourage growth, stimulate industry and get people into work (on a living wage)? Not being antagonistic, I just don't know.

Matthew fox
Please do us all a favour and shut it with your sanctimonius claptrap about taxes being paid by the honest blah blah blah... preceeding this with some waffle about the right actively encouraging theft from the state. Only a fool would write this AT THE SAME TIME as the labour mayoral candidate is exposed for his hippocrisy over taxes.
You don't even understand the seriousness of what you've writen, how offensive it is, or how you debase any serious debate with such statements.
Matthew Fox you are a monumenmtal cock breath.

And what percentage of total income do the top 1% earn?
Without that statistic the fact that they pay 30% of tax means nothing.

"Why would someone move to this country, only to set up a bank account in a country which is hundred of miles away?"

Er... maybe they had a bank account in their home country before they moved here? What a truly idiotic question.

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Look, I sympathise with the fact that that you are a clueless leftist that obediently repeats the party line without question or thought. You can't be expected to know better.

But tax evasion has existed as long as taxes. It exists in every country at all times. Everyone is always fighting it.

What happens is that whenever there is a budget crisis, the left 'discovers' tax evasion as if it is this huge pot of free money that nobody knew about before and all we have to do is reach out and take it. Problem solved! No cuts needed.

The problem with this idea is that it is utterly stupid and naive. Its like discovering crime and saying "oh lets just solve all crime, that would give the economy a huge boost". Nobody would say anything that stupid about crime, yet every day some moron is telling us about tax evasion as if it were some fantastic revelation and that nobody, until now, thought of putting a stop to it.

I can't make it any simpler for you, so if you still don't understand, please seek help elsewhere because there's nothing more I can do.

They can't simultaneously pay 30% of tax and not pay any tax at all. Surely you can figure this out.

Its rather amusing to have someone demand further facts from me when so far they have provided none of their own. Ah well that's the internet I guess.

'I find it odd that the right want to give tax cheats a tax cut by abolishing the 50p rate, who say's crime doesn't pay?'
So everyone who pays 50% tax is also stashing money in Swiss or Lichenstein, so as to, erm, avoid paying 50% tax presumably.
You're a fucking idiot cockbreath who should be put down. In war you would cost people their lives. In peace time you consume scarce resources and should be put down you're that stupid. How the fuck do u know whether people who stashed money abroad are right or left- oh, that's right, I forgot, using your shitass logic it must be right because, to quote you;
'I am not surprised you give tax cheats a free pass, stealing from the state is actively encouraged by the right.'
It's not even logic, and my hamster has more ability than you.