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Another Idiot. Utter bullshit is it? what exactly have I said is wrong? You never make an actual point.

Ah Venom the Joke. So you've just agreed with my premise but at the same time you've disparaged what I've said. Make up your mind pal. "All I know about the world is just what I've read. Then how do I actually know if anything is true?" I'm just taking your logic to its absurd conclusion.

One of his worst tbh. Just a mess of a documentary. I bet he just puts words in a hat, pulls out a couple, and tries to make a link with whatever comes out.

Having money doesn't make you part of the elite. To be a member of the elite you must also be a true believer in liberalism, which Trump is not. Liberalism is the religion of the elite. If you do not suscribe to it, then you will not be regarded as part of the elite. You will be treated like an english Roman Catholic/nonconformist in the 18th century. The people who run the world - the people who run the universities, who run central banks, who run the media houses, who run the major corporations etc. all think and act like Obama, Clinton, Osborne etc. etc. To them Trump is just a beauty paegent running vulgarian. To them Trump is a poor mans idea of what a rich person is like. As if a lower class resident of Staten Island won the Powerball and brcame rich overnight. He doesn't hold the 'correct' opinions, he's gaudy, he doesn't have any esoteric interests, not interested in funding art galleries, etc. etc.

MacDonald examines a number of other instances, including unarmed black men in San Diego, CA and Prince George's County, MD attempting to reach for a gun in a police officer's holster. In the San Diego case, the unarmed black man actually "jumped the officer" and assaulted him, and the cop shot the man since he was "fearing for his life." MacDonald also notes that there was an instance in 2015 where "three officers were killed with their own guns, which the suspects had wrestled from them." 4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Gary Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene. 5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black. According to MacDonald, the police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person. Despite the facts, the anti-police rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and their leftist sympathizers have resulted in what MacDonald calls the "Ferguson Effect," as murders have spiked by 17 percent among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. as a result of cops being more reluctant to police neighborhoods out of fear of being labeled as racists. Additionally, there have been over twice as many cops victimized by fatal shootings in the first three months of 2016.

When Nigeria gained independence it was richer than South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia etc. What happened? I'm sorry it's not all the white man's fault. Do Nigerians lack agency? Or are they beholden to impersonal forces that they have little control of. Face the facts Nigeria is a fantastically corrupt country, from the top to the bottom, everybody knows this why is this controversial? Nigeria's leaders have frittered away trillions of dollars since 1960. At the moment, despite Nigeria being one of these biggest producers of oil in the world, the country is suffering from severe petrol shortages. Who's fault is that? Listen to Fela Kuti mate. From the comfort of your home here in the UK you don't have to worry about digesting fake medication made out of chalk. My forebears? I'm nigerian mate.

Certainly, it should never have created Nigeria in the first place. But your question is besides the point. Did Cameron tell a lie? Is Nigeria one of the most corrupt countries or not?

Stop being so easily offended - especially by the truth.

It's just common sense. If someone calls Japan one of the world's most technologically advanced countries, you are not singularly referring to it's inhabitants are you? The UK is one of the wealthiest nations in the world - is everyone in the UK wealthy? No. Plus he's referring to the fact that Afghanistan and Nigeria regularly finish near the top of the world's most corrupt countries in lists compiled by NGOs such as Transparency International.

You're splitting hairs. He's obviously isn't talking about all of a country's inhabitants is he?

Well again the terms tax avoidance or tax evasion don't apply to the investment trust that Camerons family set up. If any of you have a pension it's likely to be invested in a similar scheme. The fact that states are slaves to capital means that no serious PM can clamp down on offshore financial centres and enact direct rule on the UK's crown dependencies. Unless there are capital controls and international tax harmonisation it simply will not happen. Besides our country's wealth depends solely on us being an international financial centre. These crown dependencies are also basically extensions of the city of london. We do not produce anything else. Any PM is severely constrained in this regard. Even if we successfully repatriated every pound currently in an offshore financial centre, it still wouldn't be sufficient enough to sort out this country's finances, our economic problems are structural. Cuts will still have to be made. Take what from the little people? The richest 3,000 britons pay more tax than the poorest 9 million put together.

I'm failing to see the moral equivalence of minimizing the amount of tax you pay, from money you've earned, to taking money which you are not entitled to, and have not earned. Tax havens will always be with unfortunately. Unless there is total international harmornisation of tax. And that would prove to be an infinitely worse situation that the situation we currently find ourselves in.

As I said before, he hasn't done anything wrong, the shares were sold before he became PM, and he seems to have paid all relevant taxes. His fathers fund cannot be termed as tax avoidance either. Moreover, the type of offshore unit trust his family set up was perfectly commonplace and legal - a lot of pension funds invest in them. As far as I know benefit fraud has always been a criminal offence. What is the link between the two issues? Politicians always spin, unsuprisingly. But of all things to crucify cameron for, and there are many things, this is not it.

I think every time we've engaged in a topic here I've embarrassed you. So if I'm an internet intellectual, what does that make you?

Lol. Do you want me to write an essay for you? Don't be embarrassed to ask me next time. I'm always happy to help those who lack insight and understanding. Many people who support trump are not supporting him because they are 'temporarily-embarrased millionaires'. They support him because globalisation has not worked out for them. He promises to undo the washington consensus. His economics is positively old labour.

I've already said that he's a hypocrite.

As I said what is Cameron actually guilty of? It's not whatbouttery to point out the hypocrisy of the left, especially the Guardian which has made such a big deal out of this story.

He's hypocritical, but it's not tax evasion, and it isn't fraudulent or criminal

lol you can walk and chew gum at the same time you know. Also that's simply not true, for example every week on question time you'll get 'banker bashing', or articles in guardian deriding private schooling. There is a general hostility to privilege and wealth in this country - the fact that you were lucky to be born in very fortunate circumstances, and your parents were smart and made good decisions in life, and made sure you had the best education possible is a politically disadvantageous in the times we live. And more generally the emergence of people like sanders, trump, corbyn etc is the public voicing their discontent with an international moneyed elite. When has there ever been a Negative programme about benefit scroungers or immigrants on the BBC, which by far has the most influence on British political discourse, on the contrary the BBC's output has always been favourable to the people

You really do not understand the Trump phenomenon

What has Cameron actually done wrong? So what, he benefited from tax arrangement he had nothing to do with? There is nothing wrong or illegal with the type of collective investment fund his father setup, neither can the establishment of such funds be described as 'tax avoidance'. He may be hypocritical, but he is much, much less hypocritical than the Benns ( Tony Benn helped his children avoid paying tax on more than 5 million pounds), the Ummuna family (his family's £1 million pound house was paid through an offshore trust), Ed Milliband (Ed miliband used a 'deed of variation to substanstially reduce the amount of inheritance tax he paid) who have all gone out of their way to minimize their tax, and the guardian - who used a tax-exempt shell company in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying corporation tax when it sold its 50 per cent holding in Auto Trader to Apax Partners in 2008.

Well you know you can point like a normal human being, instead of being a snarky faggot.

This type of thing will kill the welfare state quicker than any neoliberal government

Are people really defending this bummy behavior? 8 Kids, Mum and Dad have not worked since they arrived 2008, they are put into a 1.3 million house in an upscale area (it might be a semi, but those type of houses are huge inside), having disliked living in Coventry, and people are saying good for them? And to all you mugs engaging in whatbouttery: what about rich people, what about corporations. You know it's actually possible to be displeased with more than one thing at once. A conversation needs to be had about Somali's social problems in general, for example: unemployment rates amongst Somali men is believed to be over 65% (the unemployment rate for black Africans is 15%), more than 50% of British Somalis rent from local councils, the highest proportion of any foreign-born population. In 2010-11 around 33% of Somali children got five good GCSEs, the exams taken at 16, compared with 59% of Bangladeshi pupils and 78% of Nigerian ones. We shouldn't be lauding this kind behaviour by any means, it's not good their family (what kind of example are both parents setting by being long term unemployed for nearly 8 years), and it's not good for society.

I know the media has liked to portray Trump as a crazy buffoon. But has everyone forgotten Clinton foreign policy record - she has failed at everything she has put her hand to. And unlike Bush and Obama, on foreign policy Trump seems to be realist, not a bloody Wilsonian liberal. Unlike Obama he is an anglophile. He doesn't want war and/ or antagonize Russia. He hates the Saudis, he even brought up the links between the bush family and the saudis, directly referring to what happened in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. He was against the Iraq War from the beginning. He has spoken up against Wall Street, stating that he would like to tax them. He isn't beholden to any interest, and he doesn't owe anybody. From Haaretz: