The Daily Mail is frothing at the mouth this morning. It usually is, to be fair. House prices, Labour Party people who “hate Britain” and of course house prices. Today, the Mail is seething about tax dodging Facebook.
The front page of the Mail today is, “Facebook insult to taxpayers”, followed by “Web giant pays £4327 in tax – less than average UK worker.” I was rocked to my foundations, I can tell you. I’m seething too. The good old Daily Mail, standing up to filthy rich companies who avoid paying their fair share of tax. Like…er…the Daily Mail.
Standing up to the might of the rich and privileged is the workers’ friend the Mail, owned by a non-dom and registered in Bermuda, the same Mail that raged at Kraft Foods “If you won’t pay our taxes, we won’t eat your cheese, Kraft.” That’s telling them, then. If you try to avoid paying your share of tax, a newspaper owned by tax dodgers will come after you.
I will take it a step further. I will never buy the Daily Mail. Never, ever. I’m not actually changing my views by doing that because I have never once bought the Mail in my life. It’s not only because of its ownership and rank hypocrisy of its owners, it’s because I cannot stand it. It tells lies, as many if not more than your average lying politician, it is a million miles away from what I regard as being part of the so called “free press”.
In fact, Lord Rothermere shows every evidence of actually living in this country, but such is the power of the establishment he can get away with being a so called non-dom and for every non-dom more money must be collected from those who do not have access to fancy Dan accountants and anyway believe in paying their fair share.
Spare me the Facebook tax dodging story, please. Of course I want them to pay fair taxes when people I know pay tax on minimum wage salaries and I’d rather like the government to get active in this area, but they won’t. They won’t because the Tories believe they need the ongoing support of the right wing press and have probably concluded they might get less of it if they are nasty to Lord Rothermere. It hasn’t stopped the Mail’s filthy Piggate fiction story, but the likelihood of them urging readers to vote for anything other than a true blue Tory is close to zero, unless of course another Oswald Mosley character emerges and then you never know.
