I have scoured the Anti-Corruption Summit documentation to see what the British Virgin Islands have committed to doing.
The answer is nothing. Not a thing.
The BVI were at the centre of the Panama Papers and are absent from measures to address corruption.
By holding this Summit the UK government has recognised (however inadequately) the importance of tackling corruption. And they have agreed that it is a threat to international law and order.
The UK is responsible for law and order in the BVI.
The BVI are not taking the steps needed to deliver law and order.
A simple step should follow. Her Britannic Majesty should, through her Governor in the BVI, suspend local government of the British Oveseas Territory until such time as law and order can be restored. Direct rule from Westminster must be put in its place.
I await the announcement.
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It will be very rude to suspend the local government, one probably got investments there.
And you sidelined my proposal to use the Navy just recently! I can see now how it must have sounded like a frivolous remark when the Governor General can get the job done single handed 🙂
For anyone that didn’t see it, apparently the ICIJ have released the Panama Papers now. Apologies if this is old news
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org
I think that Cameron’s plan is to create the notion that something is being done in the hope that the voters will fall for it.
And as many of them may briefly note the sound bite and then return to whatever their social media activity is, many of them will – I can guarantee that unfortunately.
I came across this yesterday, and perhaps it explains the strategy Cameron and his cronies are applying here (and to almost everything else they do, it has to be said). Joseph Schumpeter (1962, p.264) took Lincoln’s well known proposition about not being able to fool all the people all the time, and observed that, in fact, it was enough to fool them in the short term, since history ‘…consists of a succession of short-run situations that may alter the course of events for good.’
Worryingly appropriate
And possibly correct
Until the long term arrives when, as we well know, we are all dead
In an extraordinary statement, anti-corruption organisation Transparency International has told David Cameron he must do more to combat corruption in his own country.
From Tom Pride of Prides Purge
The strong warning comes on the same day Cameron hosted a summit of international leaders focusing on combating corruption.
Transparency International openly derides the UK’s credentials on corruption, slamming UK companies for “overseas bribery“, the City of London for “laundering corrupt assets” as well as “dirty money” in the UK’s property market and “political corruption scandals” at home.
You can read the the full statement here.