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The temerity of Osborne never fails to amuse, eh?

YOU honestly couldn’t make it up. Mere days after half the government, including himself, were mired in a massive tax-avoidance scandal Chancellor George Osborne has had the temerity to announce a new “crackdown” on international tax dodging which he claims will “lift the veil of secrecy” that criminals hide under.

They really don’t get it, do they?

They think that just because they have finally, and under considerable duress, published their tax statements, that it is all forgotten and they have a clean slate.

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