This is from the Guardian's editorial this morning:
There are times when a manual earth-restructuring implement is best referred to as a spade, so let us speak plainly. A summit on corruption will be held on Thursday in a city that is internationally recognised (by the IMF, among others) as a tax haven. It is being hosted by a politician who admitted last month that he has personally profited from offshore finance and whose party is bankrolled by an industry that makes extravagant use of those same tax havens. Not only that, he has intervened to aid tax avoiders. That's right, David Cameron is holding a meeting on corruption.
The prime minister is not personally corrupt — but he is certainly guilty of epic hypocrisy.
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The Conservative party profits handsomely from leasehold property tenure (via donations from large freeholders) something that has been abolished everywhere that inherited it from English common law and which now survives only in England and Wales.
Leasehold is rife with abuses by monetising freeholders who engage in a simply staggering array of corrupt practices. (See http://www.leaseholdknowledge.com or http://www.carlex.co). The Conservative Party knows about it but will not do anything about it. Many millions of people suffer rip-off service charges as result. That’s on top of having to compete with international dirty money when buying in the first place.
You could add that it’s entirely inappropriate for a PM to be hosting any summit on tackling corruption while the party he leads is under investigation for rigging the election which made him PM.
I would say that same thing of Cameron as I would of most of his party and too many other modern politicians (Tony Blair please take note).
He may indeed not be consciously corrupt, but he and the others have been corrupted by some very dodgy ideas.
Ah, nostalgia! The days of the BBC The Goon Show have returned, with even more creative script writers!
And here’s yet more hypocrisy from the future Republican presidential candidate – what a fine upstanding pillar of society he must be if he’s got so much to hide in his tax returns!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-refuses-to-release-his-tax-returns-the-first-candidate-not-to-do-so-since-1976-a7025076.html