“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
Edward L. Bernays
David Cameron wanted Great Britain to remain in the European Union. However, his frail remain campaign failed because he never informed the British voters of the most significant advantage of staying in the EU, its new Anti Tax Avoidance Directive.
To convince the British people to vote to remain, Mr Cameron had to remind them that by staying in the EU, his government would have had to implement the EU’s Anti Tax Avoidance Directive by the year 2019 and enact new laws and collecting taxes from everyone, including our tax-dodging billionaires.
However, Mr Cameron wasn’t keen on ending extreme austerity measures by collecting taxes from the wealthy elite registered in tax havens throughout his political career.
Whenever the EU undertook meaningful actions to end tax avoidance amongst its member states, Mr Cameron confirmed his commitment to hold the EU referendum.
In January of 2013, Brussels produced a concrete action plan for a new EU directive that would end tax-avoiding practices amongst its member states, and within a month, Mr Cameron confirmed that he favours an EU referendum, stating:
“And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe’s smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU Directives.”
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/eu-speech-at-bloomberg
Within that year, Mr Cameron undertook his first push to exempt Europe’s smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU Directives by asking the President of the European Council to exclude offshore trusts from the EU’s new Anti Tax Avoidance Directive.
“David Cameron intervened personally to prevent offshore trusts from being dragged into an EU-wide crackdown on tax avoidance, it has emerged. In a 2013 letter to the then president of the European council, Herman Van Rompuy, the prime minister said that trusts should not automatically be subject to the same transparency requirements as companies.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/07/david-cameron-offshore-trusts-eu-tax-crackdown-2013
Mr Cameron announced the date for the EU referendum soon after the exact details of the EU’s Anti–Tax Avoidance Directive were revealed.
The European Commission presented its proposal for the Anti–Tax Avoidance Directive on January 28th of 2016, and within a month, Mr Cameron announced the date for the EU referendum.
Shortly afterwards, Theresa Villiers, Priti Patel, Michael Gove, Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling, and John Whittingdale appeared at the Vote Leave headquarters, holding a banner with the slogan “Let’s take back control”. Speaking on behalf of six Tory Brexiteers, Grayling explained that they wanted to restore the sovereignty of the British nation.
Backed by The Sun, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Daily Express and Telegraph, which are owned by tax-avoiding media tycoons, Tory Brexiteers managed to protect the sovereignty of our wealthy tax-dodgers from the new EU Anti Tax Avoidance Directive.
At Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Cameron defended the offshore low tax rates, claiming:
“We’re happy to support blacklists but we don’t think we should draw up a blacklist solely on the basis of a territory raising a low tax rate – we don’t think that’s the right approach.”
In fact, ever since he announced his U-turn on the EU referendum in 2013, Mr Cameron spent his time exclusively in the company of executive officials of the British pro-Brexit press, which are owned by wealthy tax-avoiding billionaires who felt threatened by the new EU Directive intended to bring an end to their tax-avoiding practices.
According to Press Gazette, throughout 2013, 2014 and 2015, David Cameron and George Osborne intensified their discussions with the pro-Brexit press.
“Of the 23 meetings between October 2014 and September 2015, eight were with News Corporation executives, five with the BBC or BBC Trust and four with Telegraph Media Group.”
As someone who campaigned to remain in the EU, one might have expected Mr Cameron to coordinate his campaign and meet with the pro-EU press, such as the Independent, Guardian, Financial Times, etc. Instead, Mr Cameron spent most of his time in the company of the executive officials of the pro-Brexit press, as follows:
News Coorp., which controls The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun
- In February 2015, Mr Cameron met with Robert Thomson, News Corporation chief executive; and
- In July 2015, Mr Cameron met with Robert Thomson, general discussion.
Telegraph Media Group, which controls The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph
- In February 2013, Mr Cameron met with Murdoch MacLennan and Guy Black (with John Witherow and Lionel Barber);
- In April 2013, Mr Cameron met with Aidan Barclay;
- In September 2013, Mr Cameron met with Murdoch MacLennan (with Tony Gallagher and Ian MacGregor) for general discussion;
- In November 2013, Mr Cameron met with Sir David Barclay, the Telegraph owner;
- In May 2014, Mr Cameron met with Aidan Barclay, general discussion;
- In October 2014, Mr Cameron met with Aidan Barclay (with Fizzy Barclay); and
- In January 2015 – Mr Cameron met with Aidan Barclay.
Express newspapers, which controls the Daily Star and Daily Express
- October 2013 – Mr Cameron met with Richard Desmond, general discussion
- January 2015 – Mr Cameron met with Richard Desmond, general discussion
Daily Mail
- October 2014 – Mr Cameron met with Lord Rothermere (with Paul Dacre), chairman and owner of Daily Mail and General Trust.
David Cameron is a classic Jekyll & Hyde example, publicly campaigning to remain in the EU and secretly spending most of his time with people who campaigned to leave the EU.
On March 25th of 2015, Members of the European Parliament representing Mr Cameron’s party, UKIP and DUP voted against the EU’s plans to crack down on corporate tax-dodging by making companies report where they make their profits and pay taxes.
“From Britain, Conservative, UKIP, and DUP MEPs voted against the report, though many did not show up or not vote.”
Even Mr Farage’s UKIP, the party who rambled on as being the only UK party to speak out for Britain’s little people, in the European Parliament, instead of the people he pledged to represent, he voted to protect the vested interests of the wealthy elite, who refuse to pay their tax contributions.
Apparently, Mr Farage also tried to avoid paying his taxes through an offshore trust fund.
“The 49-year-old paid a tax adviser to create the Farage Family Educational Trust 1654 in the tax haven – which he intended to channel funds through.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ukip-leader-nigel-farage-admits-1972988
Reflecting on Supreme Court’s decision that the British Parliament must decide whether or not to trigger Article 50, Mr Farage revealed the crucial aspect of his Brexit campaign, stating:
“Well, we would be half-Brexiting is my guess – is that legally we may get out of some aspects of EU membership, but if we stay in the single market, we finish up with all our businesses being regulated somewhere else and indeed a court in Luxembourg that can overrule our own Supreme Court and if that happens it will a supreme act of betrayal.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37861487
The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg is responsible for ensuring that EU directives are interpreted and applied in the same way in every member state, including the EU’s Anti Tax Avoidance Directive.
In case you are still you are wondering about Mr Farage’s ambition, here’s what he had to say on the EU Anti Tax Avoidance Directive at the EU Parliament and the way he defended tax avoidance of the wealthy Brits in the UK:
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