Warning shot over man who may be next UK chancellor » Business » This Is Jersey.
The Jersey Evening Post says:
A LONG-term critic of Jersey could be the next UK Chancellor, according to a former UK Treasury economist.
An audience of finance professionals heard David Page predict that there was a strong chance that Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable would be Chancellor in a coalition government with Labour after the general election.
And then it printed this picture:
with the caption:
Vince Cable has repeatedly criticised the role played by offshore finance centres
well at least they didn't say:
Vince cable has been known to meet Richard Murphy
Although just for the record, he has.
In fact he's even said in Parliament:
Richard Murphy, who has rightly been praised for his practical work on the matter, has estimated that HMRC is losing something in the order of £18 billion specifically through tax havens.
That should set some pulses racing down in St Helier.
And probably even get a few cheques going George Osborne's way in the hope that he might just save them from the tyranny of Vince.
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They’ve done the same in the Guernsey Press.
They have a couple of rent-a-gobs from KPMG and E&Y that spout some badly written stuff that always gets published.
The article even said there was still an ‘exodus’ of the rich ‘fleeing’ the UK to Guernsey’s advantage.
Reported ones are Guy “Unsafe” Hands (who obviously couldn’t give a damn about his wife and kids, parents or the country that made him ‘fabulous’), and a second or eighth home for racing driver J Button.
Some PE enterprise too. That’s about it. No boom in the ‘open market’ house sales, no retail boom, no nothing.
Oh and get this, the first dig was this “John Vincent Cable, and who could trust a man who doesn’t use his first name…” etc
Haile H Selassie weeps on a bike.
I had an ex close friend of mine phone me up last night to call me a ******* **** because I’m arguing the fact that if you support these kind of t*****s then you support the likes of Sov Debt Vulture Funds etc.
That is the level of argument.
Apparently, Richard you are a minority lunatic with no friends and no influence. I’m sure you’ve been told that before, yet it’s strange they keep mentioning your work again and again in their feeble efforts at being rational human beings. Like having a fishbone in the throat (I can’t remember the last time that happened – progress in action) for them.
keep choking on your greed, losers.
@Arnald
75 references to me on here the last time I looked
http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2010/04/06/charity-apologises-for-tax-slur/
The odd thing is – don’t they realise that, whether they like it or not, the Tax Justice Network has changed their world and it might be wiser to talk to us to find ways forward rather than stick their heads in the sand?
After all, we’ve proven we can deliver change
Ask the Isle of Man
What! No mention of the Isle of Man. We are currently going through a process of making sure everyone in the world knows about us. There were even question in Tynwald this week suggesting that the UK parliamentary candidates (before and after election) be told about the Isle of Man (Questions 5,6 and 7 ):
http://www.tynwald.org.im/papers/early/tynwald/ept200410a.pdf#page=11
and even further afield in Brussels (Question 3):
http://www.tynwald.org.im/papers/early/tynwald/ept200410a.pdf#page=8
My advice to our big boys would be “Hey, let’s keep our heads down lads….at the moment most of them lot think we are just a sleepy harmless Island off the south coast of England……”
Richard Murphy
I suggested engagement instead of pathetic ridicule on that thread.
They continue to believe that their existence is superior to any other peoples’.
They should be building safeguards to ensure that the genuinely beneficial parts of their industry have a platform to build on.
Yes, the islands will lose ‘wealth’, but it will gain so much more.
It ain’t rocket science. I live in a tiny island. It isn’t supposed to ‘punch above it’s weight’ in anything.
We need to ‘get real’.
Oh and ban Trident. What an idiot Brown is for saying that.
Anyone but CamOs though.
There is, without a doubt, plenty of rich people buying, or interested in buying houses in Jersey. However, the pool of houses for sale, in the price range they want, is quite small. These would be houses which cost multiple millions, £1m does not buy the kind of house they would want.
I know this is true from asking people such as people selling houses in this price range, estate agents, and builders.
The situation is likely to be the same in Guernsey.
Not all of those looking at houses are from the UK.
If there really is an exodus of the rich leaving the UK, few will end up living in the Channel Islands, just because there just isn’t enough land/houses for them.