Cameron facing probe and possible resignation, Thatcher idicted

[mentalfloss]

"All this started with Mrs Thatcher. She stopped all the regulation; people were allowed to move their money abroad, start not paying their taxes."


Cameron facing probe amid calls for him to resign

John Mann, the MP for Bassetlaw, said he would refer the prime minister to the Parliamentary Standards commissioner over whether he had breached the code of conduct.

In the rules, it says MPs should "be open and frank in drawing attention to any relevant interest" they may have while serving.

Mr Cameron appears not to have alerted the House of Commons to the fact that he had a stake in an offshore fund until January 2010, when he sold up.

Mr Mann said: "David Cameron has broken the rules on Standards in Public Life that he, along with me and others, voted for.

"No interpretation of his actions could conclude that he has acted in an 'open and frank' way, in line with the Code of Conduct for MPs.

Transparency

"It is only now, with the Panama revelations, that David Cameron has been forced to admit that he did not register his financial interests.

"This is a matter of transparency and integrity. David Cameron has shown neither of these qualities and should resign as prime minister."

Mr Mann's office cited a part of the code of conduct: "Members shall fulfil conscientiously the requirements of the House in respect of the registration of interests in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. They shall always be open and frank in drawing attention to any relevant interest in any proceeding of the House or its Committees, and in any communications with Ministers, Members, public officials or public office holders."

As the pressure rose on Mr Cameron over the revelations, Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London, told the TV channel RT that David Cameron should face a term behind bars.

"I think it is incredibly damaging. All this started with Mrs Thatcher. She stopped all the regulation; people were allowed to move their money abroad, start not paying their taxes. And Cameron's father just spent 30 years laundering money through Panama and did not pay a penny of tax to Britain. And then his son was in denial, refusing to be honest about all of this.

Cameron facing probe amid calls for him to resign - Independent.ie

 

[Johnnny]

Blackleaf... Any comment?

 

[mentalfloss]

Blackleaf:

YEAU STEUPID YANKS

 

[JLM]

What does "idicted" mean?

 

[lone wolf]

Means it didn't quite go IN, her being dead and all....

 

[Blackleaf]

I don't see what all the hoop-la is all about. Mr Cameron has done nothing illegal and has paid all his taxes (although, to be honest, I don't see why ANYONE should have to pay taxes).

Having said that, the more bad news that keeps coming along for pro-EU Cameron - and this is just the latest in a string of bad news stories to hit him in recent weeks - the more likely it may well be that Britain votes for Brexit on 23rd June. Those pro-EU propaganda leaflets - which cost £9.3 million of taxpayers' money, causing quite a lot of anger - that his government is about to send us all through the post have probably also provided a boost for Brexit. I'm still debating on whether or not to mail my leaflet back to Cameron with a letter telling him in no uncertain terms that I am going to vote to Leave and that I also hope most voters do or whether I should just use it as toilet paper.

By the way, Cameron won't resign over this - he's going to resign on Friday 24th June, the day after the British people vote to leave the EU.

 

[mentalfloss]

The Panama Papers and David Cameron’s great sin - The National Post

 

[Blackleaf]

I received my glossy, nice-smelling, taxpayer-funded, pro-EU propaganda, Government leaflet in the mail yesterday. I'm going to send it back to Cameron with a long letter explaining to him why Britain will be better off outside the EU and that I'm going to vote Leave and that I hope he does the decent thing and resigns the day after he loses the referendum.

 

[mentalfloss]

What happened to your respect for the taxpayers?

 

[Blackleaf]

What happened to your respect for the taxpayers?

What happened to the GOVERNMENT'S respect for the taxpayers, that's the question that needs to be asked here. There's been uproar about this leaflet in the UK. People aren't happy that £9.3 million of taxpayers' money has gone to fund pro-EU propaganda, and it's backfired on Cameron spectacularly.

 

[mentalfloss]

Did you actually read it?

 

[Blackleaf]

Did you actually read it?

Nope.

Brexit supporter 'livid' after his photo appears in Government's pro-EU leaflet without permission

Norfolk photographer Mike Page who is furious that the government have used one of his photos without permission or payment in the referendum booklet Credit: Archant Norfolk

Michael Wilkinson, Political Correspondent
12 April 2016
The Telegraph

A Eurosceptic photographer was left furious after the Government used one of his photographs in its £9million pro-EU leaflet without permission or payment.

Mike Page, from Norfolk, was surprised to see one of his own pictures of the Port of Felixstowe in his copy of the referendum leaflet which has this week been sent to households.

The pro-Brexit photographer told the Eastern Daily Press that he was “livid” to find the shot had been used without his knowledge or permission in the taxpayer-funded document.

The document has come under fire from leave campaigners who are angry that public money has been spent but it does not set out the case for exiting the European Union.

Mr Page, 76, has accepted a charity donation from the port and said he would not be taking it further.

He said: “I had a quick look at it and thought ‘that looks like mine’. I checked, and it was.

"I do not make any money out of my aerial photography and any money I receive is paid straight into a charity account. When I supplied the picture to the port, the agreement was that it should not be passed to a third party.

"They were very apologetic when I called and pointed it out and they have now settled it by making a further donation."

"I totally disagree with what they are doing, particularly producing this brochure. They are submitting that to every house in the UK and it has cost us a fortune and a lot of the stuff they are putting in there is total rubbish. But the point is they used it without asking.”

The photograph had been given to the Port of Felixstowe by Mr Page, whose photos have raised thousands of pounds for charity over the years, but he said he had not given permission for it to be used by anyone else without his permission - and he would not have consented to it being used for a pro-EU leaflet.

A Port of Felixstowe spokesman said: “It was one of a number of photographs we provided to the government. On this particular image there was a misunderstanding on the copyright but this has been resolved to Mike Page’s satisfaction.” A Downing Street spokesman added that the port had supplied the image.

Mike Page's stunning shot of the Port of Felixstowe Credit: Mike Page/Archant

The port has been visited twice by David Cameron in the last year, with the Prime Minister setting out the case for remaining in the EU during his last visit.

Mr Page, who runs a garage and flies aeroplanes in his spare time, is voting to leave the EU in the June 23 referendum. He told his local paper that he wanted Britain to quit the bloc because EU legislation had affected flying, adding extra costs for licence renewal and medical checks.

He also said it had negatively impacted his garage business in Strumpshaw.


Brexit supporter 'livid' after his photo appears in Government's pro-EU leaflet without permission

 

[Walter]

More Clingon stuff.

 

[Blackleaf]

It's not the first time that the Remain idiots have done something like this. A few weeks ago a letter was sent to a national newspaper from, supposedly, a number of business leaders in which they gave their views as to why Britain should remain in the EU. It subsequently transpired that at least one of the "signatories" to the letter had, in fact, nothing at all to do with the letter and is actually a Eurosceptic planning on voting to Leave. Dirty tricks from the Remain camp.

And this won't be the last of the dirty tricks from the EUphile mob. Should Britain vote to Leave the EU on 23rd June I suspect that nothing much will happen for a few months until the government eventually comes up with an excuse, however lame, as to why there should be a SECOND referendum and that we will, accordingly, be forced to vote again on the matter (as we learnt from Ireland's referendum on the Lisbon Treaty several years ago, in which the Irish were forced to vote again after giving the "wrong" result the first time around, the EU doesn't like its people to defy it and will make you vote again and again until you make the "right" decision) and, the second time around, the government will tell us that we have voted to stay in the EU this time around - even if we still actually vote to Leave. There's no way the EU and the Europhile British ruling class will allow a simple thing like a vote to Leave the EU in the referendum to allow us to actually leave the EU. I predict it'll take mass riots and protests and tanks on the street to get Britain out of this undemocratic behemoth.

 

[mentalfloss]

So you are whining about something you don't even know about because you couldn't take the time to read it.


Smrt

 

[Blackleaf]

So you are whining about something you don't even know about because you couldn't take the time to read it.

Smrt

Yeah. I'm whining about a piece of taxpayer-funded pro-EU propaganda, likely filled with all the usual scare stories we are hearing from them everyday about what would happen if Britain left the EU - swarms of locusts, water turning into blood, an outbreak of boils, diseased livestock, the death of all firstborns, darkness for three days etc etc etc. And the Remain side have to resort to such scare stories but they haven't got any good arguments as to why Britain should remain in the EU.

 

[mentalfloss]

Isn't Cameron a Conservative?

How can it be simply propaganda if he still cares about sovereignty?

 

[Blackleaf]

Isn't Cameron a Conservative?

How can it be simply propaganda if he still cares about sovereignty?

He doesn't care about Britain's sovereignty. He's a rabid EUphiles.

 

[mentalfloss]

Didn't he just recently promote the fact that Britain has its own currency?

 

[Blackleaf]

Didn't he just recently promote the fact that Britain has its own currency?

He did. And he's also campaigning for the Remain side.