I suspect most of us naive foot soldiers in the Great British 1st Brigade of Tax Payers, thought that the only thing famous in Panama, was the canal which linked the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific via a series of locks and passage ways across a narrow-ish country between North and South America.
Now we find it to be nothing less than, another Banana Republic with a penchant for opening cardboard cutout companies for the purposes of the owners (?) avoiding contributing their share to the common good in their respective countries.
The ramifications of this massive leaking of over 11 million documents (Edward Snowden eat your heart out) are hopefully going to be profound in terms of shutting the loopholes for the variety of upper echelon politicians and their cronies who've systematically screwed their respective countries finances, with the resultant deficiencies to the health, education and welfare budgets of the commoners.
Our own "Dynamic Duo" Fatman and the Boy Blunder meantime are attempting to steer clear of troubled waters (well at least Boy Blunder seems to be).
Fatman (Cameron for the benefit of doubt) though, seems to be caught in the headlights of publicity with the revelation that his dear old Pater (RIP) had been salting his wealth away in Panama via the very route that his son, our glorious Prime Minister, was appearing to be, so virulently antipathetic towards i.e. "Offshore Funds".
His erstwhile next door neighbour in 11 Downing Street, "Boy Blunder" Osborne was keeping a profile that could best be characterised as the invisible man, presumably in the hope that Fatman may be fatally wounded with "the sins of the father", then he could pick up the reins of Tory Power.
No such luck for we the taxpayers, Fatman comes out with the most ludicrous obfuscation about the wealth amassed (with no tax paid) by the fund! He indignantly asserts that he (personally), does not own any shares, nor does he have any proposed future benefit from the fund set up by his father! His only source of income is his pitiful salary as Prime Minister of this sceptred island.
My sainted aunt! Does this Eton cretin think that the Great British public are too stupid to be able to understand that his terribly expensive private education and cosseted background which got him to where he is today, undoubtedly came from a tooth fairy ?
I really think he does
Post-script on Boy Blunder;
They're all the same !!
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