They Made Us What We Are

Appropriately enough given the family background of the sainted Thatcher, the vast majority of revenue lost to tax evasion is pocketed by small tradesbeings who exploit the perennial happy relationship between the Government and the Babbage calculatifying engines. As might be expected, this particular dodge was facilitated by a law passed early in the first Bullingdon Club administration, whereby the Conservatives and their Liberal Democrat accomplices enabled companies to process payments without declaring them, go bust without settling their debts, and then re-brand without hindrance to start all over again. The Conservatives had better things to do than pester entrepreneurs with the pluck and gumption to arrange their own tax cuts; but Team Starmer has proclaimed itself disposed to crack down on the practice as soon as the Chancellor has some leg-room to spare from kicking the pensioners.