No representation without taxation

Peter Mandelson, AKA Lord Mandelson of Hartlepool and Foy and our esteemed Business Secretary, has been all over the media again today.
He is incensed with the fact that another Lord - Ashcroft of that ilk - has finally revealed that, although he is the biggest source of finance for the Conservatives, he is actually a non-dom. This may sound somewhat like a dyslexic prophyactic but all it really means is that he chooses to live somewhere other than the UK. Labour's beef with this is that Ashcroft does not pay tax - or at least not enough of it, to the UK exchequer. In a reverse of the colonial American principle of No taxation without representation, Mandelson thinks that, In Ashcroft's case,there should be no representation without taxation.
Fair enough, too, I am inclined to say. If Ashcroft wants to play a major part in determining who is going to rule this country he should at least live and suffer here along with the rest of us. But, if that is the rule we are going to apply then let's do so across  the board. At a stroke, we would eliminate all of the little apparatchiks in Brussels and Strasbourg who blight our existence with theior interminable rules and regulations Then, we would do away with any MEP's who are not actually UK domiciled. Next on the list would be professional nationalists like Sean Connery and Billy Connolly who choose to live in the sunshine but like to come back every now and again, to swan around and stick their noses into our domestic affairs. Last on the list would be Rupert Murdoch and the rest of his clan who probably have more clout than the rest of the above put together through their UK media empire. It is still likely that Sky News and the Sun will play a larger part in deciding who reigns over us in the future than Lord Ashcroft or Mandelson ever will.