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They're not going to do that are they, just so there's a point of difference between them and the Tories. With the Tories, you know that education spending will decrease. With Labour, it's currently uncertain (and, as indicated, I suspect that it will remain as such even once they're announced...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/apr/20/cameron-family-tax-havens And before you dismiss it as a left-wing plot devised by Guardianistas: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133064/David-Camerons-family-fortune-tax-dodging-offshore-investment-funds.html...

The prevalence of tax avoidance, by MNCs and wealthy individuals, has grown exponentially over the past few decades. The only way it will be properly confronted is if there are supranational rules that are enforceable. I wouldn't expect either New Labour or the Tories to deliver this. I do...

I agree with the first part of your analysis, but not the second. The Tories only announced their policy last week and that merely relates to education funding (although you don't have to be a genius to work out what the rest of it will be), and you seem to be admonishing Labour for not doing so...

This. And that graph doesn't exactly take account of the fact that the HMRC aren't calculating the % tax paid of tax avoiders, for the simple reason that they're avoiding tax. Bit like that big Boots bod, who is 'resident' in Monaco, and has moved his company's head-quarters to Switzerland.

Cameron's Eton education was in no small part funded by his father's pioneering fondness for finding ways of shifting his assets to offshore accounts, so as to avoid paying taxes.