Can I Say it Too? Oh Gosh

Now that Daveybloke has indicated that it's all right to do so, some little gofer at the Treasury has crawled out of George Osborne's second-best rectum to condemn aggressive tax avoidance. Daveybloke described one particular instance as "morally wrong"; the Chancellor's orange-topped flunkey, doubtless after much soul-searching and patient negotiation with his betters, was permitted to advance as far as "morally repugnant". In return, presumably, he agreed to allow Osborne to deprive everyone aged under twenty-five of their housing benefit, unless that was one of Nicky's ideas to begin with. "If we could narrow the tax gap in this country by a quarter we could reduce income tax for every basic rate taxpayer by 2p in the pound," the gofer proclaimed, because every basic rate taxpayer who knows what is good for them is concerned only with reducing their tax bill so that they will have more disposable cash to allocate to the welfare of health profiteers, pension profiteers, police profiteers and so forth. Coincidentally, this sort of thing is also the concern of real people, whose moral indignation at having the top rate cut by a mere five pence is even now causing sleepless nights for the paragon in Belize.