There’s a column in the Guardian this morning written by Geoff Cook of Jersey Finance. It’s been submitted in response to the serialisation of Nick Shaxson’s book ‘ Treasure Islands’ in the same paper and it does include all the usual guff Cook rolls out whenever he can on how compliant a jurisdiction Jersey is — compliance designed, of course, to ensure almost absoluter opacity is maintained at all costs.
But the funniest thing about the comment is the opening word. Cook begins '”Nigel Shaxson’s new book‚Ķ.” It’s Nick Shaxson, Geoff.
The first rule of finance is ‘know your client’.
The rule of opposition is ‘know your enemy’.
And you fell at the first hurdle Geoff. Which says a lot about your competence.
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The following has been added as a postscript to Cook’s ramblings…
• This article was amended at 10.00am on 18 January 2011.
Due to an editing error the article originally referred to Nigel Shaxson. His first name is Nicholas.
Perhaps a word of thanks to Richard Murphy, for pointing out this error, would have been appropriate.
Worth pointing out that the Guardian has included a paragraph at the end of the online piece, making it very clear that the mistake was down to an “editing error” and nothing to do with Geoff Cook or Jersey Finance
@Mike
Well they would say that wouldn’t they …
Which does nothing to alter the fact that the article was a load of old regurgitated garbage.
And this is not an “editing error”!