Starbucks have effectively caved-in on the principle of corporate tax evasion, and say they're in the process of cutting a deal with HMRC to start contributing to the cost of the taxpayer-funded infrastructure and of the health and education services that their business exploits. No doubt there's a major element of window-dressing, and no doubt HMRC will cut the most pathetic deal with Starbucks they possibly can engineer, but the positive is that a major multinational has effectively admitted they've lost the battle for hearts and minds, so we need to keep up the momentum and INCREASE THE PRESSURE -

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241759/Starbucks-set-pay-tax--Coffee-giant-bows-pressure-angry-consumers-MPs.html

Having lost the argument on the issue of multinational corporate tax avoidance, George Osborne is still (of course) refusing to admit the link between corporate tax theft and the excuses he uses to justify stealing taxpayers' resources by the privatisation and cutting of public services...

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20571621

Join the protests against George Osborne's "Autumn Statement" this Wednesday, Dec 5, outside Kings College, Strand, London, assemble 5.30 to 6pm -

 http://uniteresist.org/2012/11/protest-no-more-tory-austerity/