The problem is that billionaires can employ better financial advisers than the government. It’s like O. J. Simpson with his dream team of lawyers - they’re just better at what they do.

She is from India. She was born there, and so was her father. That is more than enough to claim Indian domicile. She can have holiday homes in every country which allows them if she so wishes. It's not against the law to live in another country. She could probably afford it too. But none of that is illegal.

She has Indian citizenship. She wishes to keep that status. I have no problem with a foreigner living in this country, as long as they abide by the rules. Which she is.

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

Exactly. Plus they have the ear of politicians and disproportionately shape political and financial systems. Corporations and politicians are often hand in glove in a symbiotic relationship. Look at the likes of Tony Blair and how much money he and his rake in post PM.

Most MPs don't want to rock the boat, and instead grease the wheels (carving out beneficial legal and political paths to their mates and corporations along the way, throwing them lucrative contracts as a cherry on top) as they know they're on a good thing longtime. And with any crisis it's always shaped into an opportunity for the mega rich, that costs and average tax payer. Any financial crash, or war, the past tells us who 'somehow' benefits and who foots the bill. Privatised gains, and socialised losses. They're no better than those gaming the social.

The rich obeying rules created by the rich for the rich is hardly something we should be viewing as a full stop, and tells us nothing about the ethics of the behaviour and how detached the common man is from ever having a hand on any of the levers of power, despite it being his vote that puts these chancers there in the first place.

Edited by BlueJay (13 Apr 2022 1.28am)

Also, I notice that nobody disputed the fact that this law has existed for centuries, and governments of all colours, whether they be Whigs or Tories or Labour or any of the other competing parties have done nothing about it. Why moan about it now? Obviously not Tory bashing?

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

Well, maybe if he had been non dom he'd have got away with it.

Let the game commence!

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

I'm simply making a point about why there is a clear lack of ethics at the top, and how these systems magically 'always' manage to prop up and have the backs of the rich rather than others who they are also supposed to represent. The issue at hand doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's a problem that has wide, non partisan acknowledgement, just that unfortunately it's not the easiest thing for concerned tax payers to do much about (or 'outraged idiots' as you repeatedly call both them and me).

Long term it will likely just result is more anti establishment candidates and parties getting in, as the publics 'roll of the dice'. Whether that will be any better is anyones guess.

Edited by BlueJay (13 Apr 2022 1.54am)