loadsamoney…
When a criminal gets off on a technicality it doesn’t make him innocent, it makes him lucky. When multinationals avoid paying tax by exploiting off-shore accounting loopholes it does not make them efficient, it makes them cunning and devious. Finding such loopholes appears to be the very lifeblood of our ever-virtuous city of London, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that this corrupt attitude seeps into the very being of the individuals who work there.
Step forward the anonymous hedge fund manager who saved himself the tidy sum of £42,500 by dodging most of his daily fare from his Sussex country pile to said city. Claiming that there was nowhere to ‘tap’ his Oyster card at his home station meant he avoided buying a valid ticket for almost five years, is simply immoral and illegal. His defence successfully exploited this technicality and then, following a cosy out-of-court settlement, guaranteed his anonymity.
None of those involved in the whole process, the defendant, the train company, nor the judicial system, appears to have given a second thought to the corrosive effect this has on Joe Public who stand witness to yet another perversely wealthy city financier blatantly flaunting his status in the face of everyone. Even though Harry Enfield’s loadsamoney is no longer on the tele, don’t think he’s left us just yet.
