What have we done to our Children?
A few months back, I watched the UK parliament as Prime Minister Cameron faced the MPs for the first time the publication of the Panama Papers. Earlier over the weekend the PM had said that he ‘could have and should have handled’ the row that resulted from the revelation that his father had held some off-shore accounts ‘better’. If he thought that the statement would dampen the mood a bit and spare him the wrath from the house, he quickly found out how wrong he had been on resuming his eat. MP after MP from the opposition Labour party stood up and attacked him for failing to grasp the widespread rage felt across the UK. During his statement the PM defended his past investments in offshore holdings and also defended the practice of avoiding inheritance tax whereby parents give money to their children before they die – and I think he was within his right to do so. What baffled me however, is the way his colleagues rounded up on those who demanded fo...