YOU CAN FOOL ME ONCE, BUT YOU CAN’T FOOL ME TICE: Tax dodging economic migrant “Tricky Dicky” Tice claims that almost £600,000 of unpaid tax was simply ‘resting in my account’.
Tricky Dicky was one of those leading the hue-and-cry over Angela Rayner and her alleged tax avoidance. Now it comes out that he was up to the same old shenanigans. Who would have guessed?
We know about Are Great Leader, Nigel Farage, and the financial inconsistencies around a house in Clacton that he may or may not have bought, and may or may not have declared in the Register of Members’ Interests.
We know that both funnel their ill-gotten gains through an opaque system of shady limited companies to avoid paying the tax that the rest of us bloody well have to pay. And don’t get me started on the affairs of their ghouls like Jenrick and Braverman.
Voting Reform into power would be like asking Father Dougal to take a funeral. Much better that the whole lot of them are shipped off to some remote and craggy island (offshore, naturally) where they cannot burn the rest of the country.
Of course Tricky Dicky has done nothing wrong (like Rayner). The unpaid tax, he says, was never withheld from the taxman. It was merely resting in one of his bank accounts, before being accidentally laundered through his extensive network of limited companies based in tax havens across the globe. If you can find it, good luck, he adds.
It’s a truly patriotic action. Who cares, when you can wave a flag, shout at a hotel, or vandalise a mini roundabout?
Maybe Tricky Dicky thinks that all taxation is wrong. Perhaps taxation is theft of hard-earned money, and should therefore be abolished? The last word should go to Tricky Dicky himself.
“Of course we need taxation,” he said. “There must be money in the public pot. Otherwise, how could we plunder it?”