To think that David Cameron should resign?

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Presiding over a government that is trying to spin doctors and teachers into militants ,

Supporting a chancellor that has failed to reduce the deficit by his own standards and has delivered two hated and u turning budgets in a row, over the death of the British Steel Industry, is attacking renewable energy in times of climate change, is taking support from the ill and disabled is and NOW he has admitted benefiting from TAX AVOIDANCE????!!!!
This is all wrong. How many more years of this?

*can't think. Not can think.

No, his father didn't illegally evade paying tax. Almost every higher rate taxpayer looks for ways to minimise tax, it's bloody frustrating.

Also surely a huge number of pension funds invest in offshore enterprises, on that basis loads of ordinary people are in the same boat, they personally didn't invest in offshore funds but will benefit from them.

I take it Cameron Sr paid for the offspring's fancy Eton education with money saved from wheezes like this, too?

I haven't RTFT since posting last night, but this caught my eye, and I agree. When the story first broke, about Cameron Snr, I wasn't particularly interested. I don't think anyone is accountable for their parents actions.

However, if those parents morally dubious actions then benefited their offspring, who reaped a life of privilege as a result (how many Bullingdon boys went to their local comprehensive) it becomes a tad less clear cut, and certainly a fair topic for discussion. Especially when Call-Me-Dave tries to play the everyman card.

No Mr. Cameron, you are not responsible for your father. But you should acknowledge your privilege.

But you should acknowledge your privilege.

but he has acknowledged his privilege he has never denied his privilege either.

If the point is that someone who is a part of a privileged elite should acknowledge they are part of that privileged elite, I agree in theory but in practice am perplexed as to what that would look like.

After all, Cameron is not claiming to be from the Bronx or something!

Imagine that your manager had admitted to misconduct, but kept their job because everyone else was just as bad?
I agree with this sentiment. However, I suspect if the company were a couple of months away from a once-in-a-lifetime merger/takeover/division, said manager might find his disciplinary/outcome appointment scheduled for after that date.

I despise the Tories, and if there wasn't an EU ref around the corner, I'd be calling for his resignation too. I'm just being pragmatic.

Another anti-Tory Mumsnet thread full of ridiculous hyperbole.

On here LittleBearPad?

No, surely not.

Hi Dave. Welcome to Mumsnet.

Who, me? Fuck me, I've been accused of being a troll and a journalist but Cameron is a new one.

No little bear.

I am not anti-Tory per se. I dislike everyone equally.

So Bear you don't think that the revelation that the Prime Minister profited from an off shore trust whilst leader of the opposition is not newsworthy, especially when he a) condemned others for doing similar b) has made a great deal of noise about closing tax loopholes c) he componded the issue by repeatedly weaseling his way out of declaring his interest in the vehicle established by his father?

YANBU! Totally agree he should resign.

I am not a fan of DC and do not vote Tory but do not see why anyone should resign for making legal investments. I am sufficiently socialist to think paying tax due is a privilege. We are paying for being lucky enough to have an income in a civilised country but why would anyone pay more than is required by law? As an ordinary working family we pay everything required of us but we don't then voluntarily offer the exchequer more so why should richer people be expected to do that?
I put my savings in tax free ISAs - an off shore account is a rich persons way of doing the same.

Hmm, when you very publicly lambast celebs for offshore bank accounts, you need to be clean.

I have only minor issues with people taking advantage of tax reduction/avoidance - it's the government's job to reduce opportunity (or create it, should that be required). BUT I have a major issue with a PM who isn't clever enough to manage what could have been a small blip, who engages in such open hypocrisy, who mocks the general public with a series of statements that we could all pick problems with (he tried to fool us with grammar, FFS).

Magdalen, actually.

I didn't insult anyone, just called into question the empathy of Conservative voters.

And I vote anti-Tory not because I benefit from it (I don't) but because the most vulnerable in society need help. Which they don't get from the Conservatives.

So in fact you were telling conservative voters that you are a better person than they are which is fine but has little to do with politics or economics.

And I vote anti-Tory not because I benefit from it (I don't) but because the most vulnerable in society need help. Which they don't get from the Conservatives.

Me too; I'm a member of Labour, not because of any huge love for that party, but because I loathe the Conservative Party.

Yes he should resign. He has lost credibility.
Just because something is legal doesn't make it right.
It is immoral to place the brunt of austerity measures onto the most vulnerable whilst profiting from tax avoidance yourself.
It doesn't matter if others are doing the same. He is the Ptime Minister.
It doesn't matter that he sold his shares in 2010. Blairemore hasn't paid a penny in tax for 30 years.
It is legal because this situation was created by people creating the rules to benefit themselves individually instead of benefitting the UK as a whole.
It's a credibility thing. He doesn't have any anymore.
On an international scale it is embarrassing.

Candykane - yes, absolutely agree 100 percent.

Unfortunately if the Labour Party members had voted for a different leader it's unlikely DC would be PM now

And yet we haven't learnt from our mistakes another unelectable leader leading the party

I find this stance of anyone who voted Tory has no empathy people vote for a leader too one they feel they have confidence in the Labour Party didn't and still don't offer that

I'd argue his father's actions reflect on him, as he has benefited hugely from the education and advantages, tax avoidance bought him.

I think you are right that labour can't win with Jeremy. We couldn't win with Ed either so who should we have voted in?