Also, this issue rightfully concerns every frum jew, because the chief rabbi represents jewry to a large degree in the world. Unfortunately, more people identify yiddishkeit with the British chief rabbi than with rav gershon eidelstein.
So his actions are important to Torah jews.
If a rosh yeshiva were arrested on tax evasion charges, all of you MO and MO sympathetic posters would be screaming about the above issue.