I see the lawmakers agree with me .....
MP calls for Gary Barlow to be stripped of his OBE
Labour MP Stephen Pound criticised Barlow yesterday, saying: 'It's less Take That and more like Take That And All The Rest. Gary Barlow needs to do his patriotic duty and show he is not a part-time patriot off-shoring his wealth through this shelter while keeping his OBE on-shore.'
Simon Hughes, the Lib Dem deputy leader, said he was 'on the warpath' over people who did not pay full tax.
He said: 'Honours are meant to be for people who serve Britain and are good citizens in doing so. If you don't pay your taxes you're not a fully decent citizen.
Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland, a member of the Public Administration Select committee, said: ‘It is wrong for those held up as models of service and duty to be given or indeed to accept honours despite having deliberately avoided the payment of tax.
'Those who are happy to be honoured by their country should also be happy to pay taxes to their country. Not doing so is not acceptable and unpatriotic.’
He added that those honoured by the nation ‘should be happy to make their contribution to national life in every sense’.’
Stephen Williams, the Lib Dems’ co-chair of their Treasury policy committee, added: ‘I don’t think our system should honour individuals who don’t pay their way.’
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