David Cameron has come in for a torrent of criticism, abuse, and mockery over his tax affairs in the last few days.
While some of the prime minister’s enemies may pick this moment to kick him when he’s politically vulnerable, others are choosing to make their point in more indirect ways.
Case in point is comedian Jimmy Carr, himself no stranger to HMRC-related controversy.
Indeed, David Cameron publicly condemned Carr’s tax affairs in 2012, when he said during an interview:
“I just think this is completely wrong. People work hard, they pay their taxes, they save up to go to one of [Carr’s] shows. They buy the tickets. He is taking the money from those tickets and he, as far as I can see, is putting all of that into some very dodgy tax avoiding schemes.
“That is wrong. There is nothing wrong with people planning their tax affairs to invest in their pension and plan for their retirement – that sort of tax management is fine. But some of these schemes we have seen are quite frankly morally wrong.”
On Friday afternoon, Carr finally waded into the Cameron tax scandal with a simple tweet:
I'm going to keep it classy. It would be ‘morally wrong’ and ‘hypocrytical’ to comment on another individual’s tax affairs.
— Jimmy Carr (@jimmycarr) April 8, 2016
Sometimes the high road can be the most lethally devastating option of all.
