The UK government said it could not legislate for Jersey to stop tax abuse and corruption, but apparently it can when it comes to fishing

Posted on October 21 2020

The UK government always said it could not legislate for Jersey.

And so it said it would not intervene to stop tax abuse and corruption.

But apparently, when it comes to fish there are no such problems. Suddenly it can legislate after all. And Jersey is not happy:

The truth is, of course, that it could always have legislated to stop tax abuse and corruption, but it chose not to.

That it now thinks it can legislate on fish proves that.

And shows that it never had any intention of beating tax abuse and corruption.

Which does, of course, show how corrupt it is.

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  1. Gordon McAdam says:
    October 21 2020 at 5:16 pm

    When, and where, fish are involved ANYTHING is possible. ALL, must bow before fish.

  2. Marie Thomas says:
    October 22 2020 at 12:01 pm

    Does anyone know what hold fish have on the Tories? Is it just fetishism or is it something to do with donors? The mystery of fish…

    • Andrew says:
      October 22 2020 at 7:24 pm

      It is purely symbolic. Slightly old data, but https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201617/ldselect/ldeucom/78/7811.htm says:

      “Defra confirmed that, of the 666,000 tonnes of fish the UK produced in 2014, some 499,000 tonnes were exported to EU and non-EU countries, leaving 166,000 tonnes for domestic consumption. This domestic production consists of 451,000 tonnes of fish landed by UK vessels into UK ports, and 215,000 tonnes of fish produced by UK aquaculture producers. Measured by volume, 66% of the exports went to the European Union–equal to 49% of the domestic production of fish that year. At the same time the UK imported some 721,000 tonnes of fish, 32% of which came from the European Union.”

      Total, £1.6 billion exported (2/3 to EU) and £2.7 billion imported (1/3 from EU). We export a lot of mackerel and herring and so on, and we import a lot of cod and haddock (including lots from Norway and Iceland which are both in the EEA).