By Rab Bruce’s Spider

You can’t blame David Cameron for being rich.

You can’t blame him for his father being a tax-dodger.

You can’t really blame him for inheriting money in a manner that was tax efficient.

What you can blame him for his not amending the rules to prevent this sort of immoral tax avoidance being so widespread among the wealthy, not to mention among the world’s criminals.

And you can certainly blame him for not telling the truth when first asked and for continuing to prevaricate as much as possible.

There is, quite rightly, a lot of pressure on him just now, with many calling for his resignation. In a normal country, that might well happen but I suspect Dave will cling on. Besides, the alternative candidates for PM are too horrendous to contemplate. But Westminster operates by riding out storms, by delaying, by distracting and relying on the UK public not to make too much fuss.

Cameron’s problem, though, is that the media are jumping on the bandwagon and I have a cynical explanation for why even this arch-manipulator might be hounded out of office. The thing is that the data containing the details of who is involved in hiding money in tax havens is controlled by journalists. And those journalists work for news agencies which have agendas.

I have yet to see an explanation of why, with over 200 journalists working on this data for over a year, only a handful of prominent Western politicians and public figures have been named and even then only at one remove. Are we really to believe that there aren’t others?

It may be that data will be drip fed in order to prevent overload but that’s not usually how the media works and, when it does, it doesn’t normally take this long. Which suggests there is an agenda at work.

I may well be wrong on this but I expect George Osborne to come under the microscope next but I will be pleasantly surprised if any pro-Brexit MPs are named as being involved because, cynical as this may sound, most of the UK media is controlled by pro-Brexit tax-avoiding millionaires. This may be a convenient way for them to oust Cameron and Osborne and install their pet poodle, Boris Jognson, as PM.

Will the full truth ever come out? I doubt it. But this confirmation of what many of us have been saying about the UK for some time is yet another blow to the increasingly fragile UK. When the skeletons come out of the closet and start hanging the dirty laundry on the washing line, the public has two options. They can either shrug their shoulders and accept that the wealthy can do pretty much what they like or they can use their votes to get rid of untrustworthy politicians. Yet even that second choice is limited because Westminster is corrupt to the core. And we all know what Scotland’s solution to breaking free of that corruption is. Quite frankly, even if some of the scare stories we heard during the IndieRef were to come true, independence surely couldn’t be any worse than being governed by the self-serving hypocrites who rule the roost at Westminster.