Question Time Audience Member's Simple Solution To Austerity Goes Down An Absolute Storm
Question Time Audience Member's Simple Solution To Austerity Goes Down An Absolute Storm
They really like this guy.
They really like this guy.
Angus Robertson SNP MP
As we know, the problem that came out of the Panama Papers is the ultra-rich. And I'm asking why are there so few people relative to the other staffing levels in the HMRC who are dealing with the ultra-rich who a re taking their money elsewhere and are not paying for the hospitals and they're not paying for the roads, not paying for public services and they should be doing that.
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David Dimblebey
Now, when Angus started speaking there was a very loud shout of "rubbish" from somebody, I'd like to go to them please.
Glasses Man
Can you remember when the banks went down and the deficit, and the national debt? Has everyone forgot about that or was that made up? That's why there's been cuts and that's why there's been austerity so we've got to close the gap. These lot think there wasn't a deficit and that it was all made up.
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Red Jumper Man
If we actually close these tax loopholes, made people pay their taxes, we wouldn't need these cuts in the first place.
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Angus Robertson SNP MP
Incidentally this government is closing HMRC offices right across the UK, you'd have thought they would want to get the tax money in!
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David Dimblebey
Wait a minute, wait a minute, if everybody talks nobody hears anything. The man in red, you were talking to him over there (Glasses Man), and I'll keep the panel quiet.
Red Jumper Man
There's £36 billion of austerity measures, there's over £30 billion of unpaid tax. It don't take a genius to realise, if you close the tax loopholes, get that £30 billion in tax, we don't need need to take austerity measures. There you go."
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