I think we need to give Akshata Murty a bit of a break. Poor thing. Ok, rich thing. But she’s having a really really bad time at the moment, to such an extent that her husband, Rishi Sunak’s political aspirations are being called into question. And this is Crown Prince Rishi, heir to the throne currently sat upon by Blonde Boris’s fat arse. The very man who started his bid for Prime Minister by throwing 70 billion quid at the population in furlough payments. It’s hard to be more heroic and loved than that. And yet that was yesterday. Today, we fucking hate Rishi for being a lousy husband to a stinking rich, tax-avoiding billionairess who fucking hates England, never wants to live here and has robbed the NHS of MILLIONS!!! If your uncle Reg is currently on a waiting list for a new hip, it is HER FUCKING FAULT!!!

So we need to act in a more equivocal and less reactionary manner as we consider Ms Murty. In the name of fairness.

Is it a crime to pay less tax than you have to? Which is what she did by using her ‘non-dom’ status to pay tax earned in India for her Indian earnings. Even though she lives here. Is that wrong? She saved £2million a year by doing that and still had to survive on the 7/8 million left over. Plus her husband’s earnings and the overseas trust funds. But she has to pay for her gas’n’lectric too, ya know. Fill up the car; well, she has people to do it for her but someone’s gotta pay!

Is it a crime that her non-dom declaration states that ‘she lives in India and has NO intention to settle permanently in the UK’? And hubby wants to live at number 10. Ok, not permanently, our democracy doesn’t work like that. Unless there’s a divorce in the future which we don’t know about. Because we like our possible PMs to live here. Call me old fashioned. But not just live here, but be committed to the UK. Not possibly view it as one of so many places we may choose to live. California? Mumbai? London? Ahhhh, so many choices. Even Rishi’s Green Card, which he gave up just before becoming chancellor, commits him to living in America.

Yet none of this is a crime. Everything’s legal and above board.

Rishi Sunak has told us that we need to pay more tax. For the country. For the NHS. Because we need to pay back for the pandemic. We have emptied the pot and its going to hurt to refill it. And to state that, sincerely, whilst finding personal loopholes to avoid the impact personally, is not a crime either. Its just a bit hypocritical and not very nice. Wherever Akshata chooses pay her tax, at whatever preferential rate, its safe to say she won’t be poor.

Terrible political judgment aside, the only real ‘crime’ they’ve committed is to be exceptionally rich.

Happy Monday

A xxxx