How can we believe Tories are honest when they pressurise their own Chancellor to exempt them from anti-crime laws?
Oh, look: Not only does Charles Walker (left) not want us to see his tax return, he also voted to cut Employment and Support Allowance for some of the UK’s poorest people.
Charles Walker should have gone ahead with his bill to ban curtains. It would have demonstrated just how silly the Conservatives have become.
His bill would never have been passed, but he would have been forced to publish his tax returns.
In both cases, nobody would have seen anything they weren’t intended to.
George Osborne has agreed to make MPs exempt from anti-money laundering checks under pressure from moaning Tory backbenchers.
Tory MP Charles Walker claimed MPs and their families were being treated like “African despots”.
MPs appear on automatic watch lists of “Politically Exposed Persons” (PEP), used by banks to prevent money being funnelled into criminal gangs or hidden in offshore tax havens.
It means MPs and their families could be subject to extra checks on their bank accounts.
But the Chancellor said banks could go too far and become “disproportionate.”
Ministers will now move to exclude MPs from the watch lists in the forthcoming Bank of England bill.
Mr Osborne caved under pressure from influential Tory backbencher Charles Walker, who has been pressing for the change for some months.
Mr Walker, who chairs the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs, last week threatened to table a bill banning curtains if he was forced to publish his tax returns.
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Hopefully soon it will be curtains for the Tories.
He also seems to be referring to himself as a peeping tom, isn’t that illegal?
Mike, what would happen if the tories lost all of their seats around the country next month?
The rest of us would laugh very hard.
Here is another point, people on benefits aren’t allowed financial privacy yet why are wrongly elected morons, who are paid by the tax payer, suddenly allowed such privacy, it should be the public’s right to scrutinize wrong doing. He should stop acting like a child and suck it up!!!
Awww… how chummy of Osborne, saving his Boys Club pals once again, what with expenses, being landlords, subsidised food and drinks, executive cars etc, taxpayers money for their propaganda, etc etc…..living the life of Reilly!
Not only do they misappropriate money, but also the law, typical and unacceptable.
Nothing to hide, nothing to worry about Right. Guilty, guilty guilty on all charges.
Walker seems to have lost sight of the fact that he is a public servant, or perhaps he is too arrogant and corrupt to acknowledge that fact.
They shouldn’t be exempt from anything, we aren’t so they shouldn’t be either, more sneaky tactics from this shower to avoid be punished, which they richly deserve to be!