For those who are quick, there's a chance to see the repeat of Friday's Newsnight on BBC2 that features 10 minutes on the domicile campaign. Start about 10 minutes into the programme.
The opening feature focuses on the UK government web site highlighting the advantages of the UK as a tax haven, about which they learned from this site. I was also asked to be on the programme, but the trouble with living in a somewhat remote location was getting to a studio just was not possible in the time available.
Still, John McDonnell MP seemed to cover the job rather well. And it's worth watching just to see the archive shots of Gordon Brown saying the domicile rule will go. How power changes a man.
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Richard. I am not involved in finance or indeed any profession offshore. Some years ago a former IOM Chief Minister, namely Donald Gelling CBE, was reported in a local newspaper as saying ‘We will be in poverty’ as a first reaction to very early hints that the EU OECD ect would assail the so called ‘tax havens’. ie the three Crown Dependencies. This was said during his first time as Chief Minister and accompanied by a photograph. It will have been archived. Assuming that the Island(s) lose their finance sectors due to various international pressures and become poor, who will support the very high standard of public services our residents, mostly workaday people, have come to expect and need? We run our own NHS, police, education, civil service etc. Certainly, the Isle of Man is British sovereign territory and many years ago it was acquired for the Crown/Britain through the final ‘Murray Purchase’ in the 1820s. Would the Island be offered anexation into the UK and be thus part of say Lancashire/Merseyside/Cumbria? Nothing moves here but London first approves outside of pure internal matters. So would the UK change our non-UK status and keep us in the manner to which we have become accustomed in any such ‘Marriage’. Some years ago it was rumoured that we had sold out the finance sector in return for secret EU subsidies but it was never proved and I think is nonsense. (So far!). Would the UK want an offshore county. The UK is responsible for our good government and indeed a court case here of over ten years ago showed that Isle of Man Government has no independent existence being British government n a different hat. (More like advanced devolution). So where would this Island and its now much more complex and developed economy get its money? Any ideas because none of the Crown Dependencies are truly independent. They are internally self-governing only. The IOM official population is said to be 80,000 give or take a few thousand migrant workers living ten to a room! Regards Barrie Stevens