Segundo este artigo da BBC News datado de hoje, a Terra Ingla, governada pelo partido reacionário Tory, está cada vez mais sozinha nesta postura escandalosa de manter os bónus aos milhões, distribuídos aos bancários por continuarem a deitar abaixo os economias. A Folhinha tem andado a refletir sobre o assunto e pensamos apoiar as tomadas de posição extremistas pela extrema direita no poder em Terra Ingla.
Explicamos: quanto mais depressa deitarem abaixo o sistema capitalista melhor. Deixem-nos destruir tudo para depois porem outro sistema em vigor. Pior do que este não pode ser. Isso não existe.
Voltando seriamente ao assunto: é preciso ter lata para defenderem o sistema de remuneração escandaloso dos bancários, quando eles, além de terem causado a banca rota, eles têm andado metidos em grandes vigarices à escala mundial. E isso é sem falar dos "inside job", seja informação aos amigos antes do lançamento de ofertas públicas de compra. Isto não é fácil de provar, mas é fácil de observar as compras suspeitas de ações pouco antes do anúncio da oferta. Lembrem-se que os bancos só não fecaharam as portas porque os governos endividaram-se e CONTINUAM A ENDIVIDAREM-SE, até à morte para que eles se mantenham de pé, abertos e não provocar o caos.
Foi uma nacionalização muito estranha, porque os Estados injetaram fortunas colossais, triliões, na banca. Pelo que parece, os Estados não só não mandam lá nada, como também os mesmos banqueiros querem continuar a fazer as mesmas porcarias que levaram as economias à perdição. Que paguem primeiro o que devem ao contribuinte, e só então depois terão a dignidade reconquistada.
Deixaram-nos conquistar poder demasiado, e agora eles querem mandar mais do que os eleitos pelas populações. Cortem-lhes os bónus e descem-lhes os salários para salários normais como toda a gente. Verão depois como se lhes acaba a arrogância. Dinheiro a mais só lhes faz mal, fazem-nos comportar como amalucados. Quem viu a postura do Bob Diamante ao ser interrogado pelos Deputados do Reino Unido compreende esta parte.
Por que razão eles têm de ganhar 900 mil libras por ano e depois meterem-lhes no papo mais uns milhões de bónus? Mas quem é que o Bóris, o Davide e aquela cambada de reaças Tories querem convencer que esses milhões são honestos e bem merecidos! Isso é uma das mais escandalosas operações de propaganda de todos os tempos! O sacana do Itlanázico, (sim sabemos que o nome está mal. Escrevê-lo bem provoca-nos calafrios) dizia que quanto maior for a mentira mais as pessoas nela acreditam.
O ano passado, o Bóris riu-se à gargalhada quando um reporter da televisão lhe perguntou o que pensava das 500 mil mocas que recebia do Daily Torygraph por um artiguito semanal. Desdenhou dizendo " chicken feed, chicken feed!" (bagatela, bagatela). Uma bagatela! cerca de 500 mil libras! Só se for para ele e quadrilha!
Assim, pensem só nos milhões que andam por ali concentrados nos bolsos dessa gente! Claro que com esse dinheiro todo eles têm poder, e quando o não têm, deitam-lhes a mão e caçam-no! Essa gente passa a vida inteira a jogar e a brincar nessa dimensão. Querem lá saber de quem dizem representar.
Esses tipos só representam uma casta, a dos detentores de capitais. Isso é bem claro agora quando a Europa tenta muito timidamente pôr alguma ordem nesse mundo caótico dos bónus bancários. Os mandarins Inglas defendem os benefits da bancaria como pitbulls defendem os donos. It sucks!
Osborne stands alone as EU backs bonus cap
Chancellor George Osborne said a cap on bonuses could have a "perverse effect"
Chancellor George Osborne stood isolated after European Union finance ministers vowed to press on with proposals to curb bankers' bonuses.
He told a meeting of EU finance ministers that he could not back the plans, which he fears could damage London's financial centre.
The EU is proposing to cap bonuses to 100% of a banker's annual salary, or to 200% if shareholders approve.
There will be further talks, but ministers will now finalise details.
Speaking after the meeting, Mr Osborne said Britain already had the toughest regime in Europe for bankers' pay and bonuses and that a cap could "have a perverse effect".
He said after the meeting: "I cannot support the proposal currently on the table."
The City of London fears the rules will drive away talent and restrict growth.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said "it would be better'' to reach consensus with the UK, and further negotiations would take place.
But Michael Noonan, Ireland's Finance Minister and chairman of the meeting, said ministers would begin finalising technical details ahead of a vote next month.
The bonus proposals are part of wider measures requiring banks to strengthen their capital buffers in the hope of avoiding another financial crisis. The measures need formal approval from the European Parliament and EU states.
Michel Barnier, the EU commissioner for the single market, said high bonuses were behind excessive risk-taking by bankers. "Enough is enough. We've got to put a stop to that."
But the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has dismissed the idea as "self-defeating". London is the EU's largest financial centre.
'Unintended consequences'
Simon Lewis, chief executive of the lobby group the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, said the proposed measures were not just a threat to the City of London, but to Europe's competitive position in financial services.
He told the BBC: "If this goes ahead, you will see the law of unintended consequences. Salaries will go up, there will be less flexibility, and the banks will be less competitive."
Last week the Federation of European Employers questioned whether restrictions on bankers' pay exceeded EU powers.
There has been speculation that the UK may try to invoke a little-used "national interest" defence to block attempts to curb bonuses.
The so-called "Luxembourg Compromise" allows a member state to block a majority decision being taken if an issue is deemed to seriously affect "a very important national interest".
Some banks have reportedly taken legal advice on whether the EU's proposals are within the law, according to the The Financial Times on Tuesday. One bank had already received legal opinion that the bonus measures contravened European law, the FT said.
Mr Lewis told the BBC that he "was sure" lawyers would be looking at whether the proposals were lawful, but added that "these are early days".
The European Commission has said that it is confident the proposals are legally watertight.
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Segundo este artigo do Guardian, O PM da Terra Ingla deve de estar bem colocado para saber como funcionam os paraísos fiscais, a evasão fiscal e quem nela anda envolvido. O falecido pai de D Cameron geria fundos off-shore numa empresa de evasão fiscal e colocação de desses capitais em abrigos fiscais. Certamente que a dita empresa e o pai do PM conheciam bem as malhas largas do tecido legal, e por elas se enfiavam sem rasgar nem um fiozinho. Tudo legal, cara.
Nem sabemos como este passado familiar lhe abriu o caminho para PM. E agora ele estará no governo a representar o povo Ingla, the hard working families, slogan que ele próprio não se cansa de apregoar, ou a representar os tubarões que escapam ao HMRC através da malha larga?
Nas repúblicas das bananas tudo é possível, mas que este tipo de coisas aconteçam numa democracia secular, isso é totally absurd, SURREAL!
O estimado leitor/a poderá não acreditar no team da Folhinha, mas o Guardian ainda é um newspaper onde se pode acreditar em muita coisa que escrevem.
Cameron family fortune made in tax
havens
A família Cameron fez
fortuna nos paraísos fiscais
Revealed: David Cameron's father built up legal offshore funds in Panama and Geneva
• The Jersey, Panama and Geneva connection
• Ian Cameron's will
• The Jersey, Panama and Geneva connection
• Ian Cameron's will
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David Cameron's father set up offshore investment funds which explicitly boasted of their ability to remain outside UK tax jurisdiction. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/PA
David Cameron's father ran a network of offshore investment funds to help build the family fortune that paid for the prime minister's inheritance, the Guardian can reveal.
Though entirely legal, the funds were set up in tax havens such as Panama City and Geneva, and explicitly boasted of their ability to remain outside UK tax jurisdiction.
At the time of his death in late 2010, Ian Cameron left a fortune of £2.74m in his will, from which David Cameron received the sum of £300,000.
Cameron and other cabinet members have recently suggested that they would be willing to disclose their personal tax filings amid growing scrutiny following the budget, but this would only shed light on annual sources of income rather than accumulated wealth or inheritance.
The structure employed by Cameron senior is now commonplace among modern hedge funds, which argue that offshore status can help attract international investors. UK residents would ordinarily have to pay tax on any profits they repatriated, and there is nothing to suggest the Camerons did not.
Nevertheless, the dramatic growth of such offshore financial activity has raised concerns that national tax authorities are struggling to pin down the world's super-rich.
Ian Cameron took advantage of a new climate of investment after all capital controls were abolished in 1979, making it legal to take any sum of money out of the country without it being taxed or controlled by the UK government.
Not long after the change, brought in by Margaret Thatcher after her first month in power, Ian Cameron began setting up and directing investment funds in tax havens around the world.
Leaving his full-time role as a City stockbroker, Ian Cameron went on to act as chairman of Close International Asset management, a multimillion-pound investment fund based in Jersey; as a senior director of Blairmore Holdings Inc, registered in Panama City and currently worth £25m; and he was also a shareholder in Blairmore Asset Management based in Geneva.
However, the family will – a public document seen by the Guardian – only details the assets of Ian Cameron's estate in England and Wales. Offshore investments would only be listed in submissions to HMRC for inheritance tax purposes. It is unclear what those assets – if any – are worth and which family member owns them.
In 2009 the compilers of the Sunday Times Rich List estimated Ian Cameron's wealth at £10m.
He was survived by his wife, Mary Fleur Cameron, who as his spouse would not have had to pay inheritance tax on sums transferred between them.
In 2006 Ian's eldest son, Alexander, became the sole owner of the family's £2.5m house in Newbury, Berkshire, where David had been brought up.
Another family home in Kensington, London, worth £1m, passed to his two daughters in equal share.
Cameron's father was "instrumental" in setting up the Panamanian company, Blairmore Holdings, in 1982, which was exempt from UK tax, when David was a pupil at Eton aged 16.
The fund shares its name with the family's ancestral home in Aberdeenshire, Blairmore House, in which Ian Cameron was born in 1932 but which the family no longer owns.
A lengthy prospectus for Blairmore Holdings written in 2006 and meant to attract high net worth "sophisticated" investors, with at least $100,000 to buy shares, is explicit about how the fund sought to avoid UK tax. At the time more than half of the fund's 11 directors were UK nationals.
Under Panamanian law the fund was excluded from taxation derived from other parts of the world.
"The fund is not liable to taxation on its income or capital gains as long as such income or capital gains are not derived from sources allocated within the territory of the Republic of Panama," the 2006 prospectus reads.
"The Directors intend that the affairs on the Fund should be managed and conducted so that it does not become resident in the United Kingdom for UK taxation purposes. Accordingly ... the Fund will not be subject to United Kingdom corporation tax or income tax on its profits," the prospectus continues.
The investor document also credits Ian Cameron as a founder member of Blairmore Holdings and states that as an adviser he would be paid $20,000 a year – the highest paid director – whatever profits were realised.
In fact, the long-term Panamanian investment fund performed above market rate over many years averaging a 116% return from 2002-2007. Today many of the fund's largest holdings are in blue-chip stocks such as Apple, Unilever and Coca Cola.
Before his death, aged 77, Ian Cameron was also chairman and shareholder of Close International Equity Growth Fund Ltd, registered in Jersey and worth £9m according to papers filed in 2005. In that year just under half of the fund's holdings were in UK listed stocks.
A third fund set up in Geneva, Switzerland, had a shorter life span and finally dissolved in 2007 but had many of the same registered shareholders as the Panamanian outfit. These included a number of former employees of Panmure Gordon, the stockbroking firm where Ian Cameron spent much of his career and those from Smith and Williamson investment management where Cameron senior was a consultant.
One notable investor into the Panama fund was a charity established by Tory peer Lord Vinson. Accounts from 2009 show that a charitable trust set up under his own name invested £82,000 into the fund – almost one quarter of its investments in shares.
Vinson's trust that year went on to donate tens of thousands of pounds to rightwing think tanks including the Institute of Economic Affairs and Civitas.
David Cameron has recently remarked on companies who have taken advantage of offshoring to legally avoid tax. Speaking at the start of the year to small business leaders in Maidenhead, he said: "With the large companies, that have the fancy corporate lawyers and the rest of it, I think we need a tougher approach.
"One of the things that we are going to be looking at this year is whether there should be a general anti-avoidance power that HMRC can use, particularly with very wealthy individuals and with the bigger companies, to make sure they pay their fair share."
The row also comes as the top rate of tax was lowered in last month's budget from 50p to 45p and the rate of corporation tax continue to drop to achieve the chancellor's ambition of giving the UK one of the lowest rates of corporation tax in the G7.
Responding to opposition criticisms over the lowering of the top tax rate, Cameron said: "The cut in the 50p tax rate is going to be paid five times over by the richest people in our country."
Downing Street said it did not want to comment on what was a private matter for the Cameron family.
A spokesperson added: "The government's tax reforms are about making sure that some of the richest people in the country pay a decent share of income tax."
The investment managers Smith and Williamson, for whom Ian Cameron worked, chose not to comment.
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