{"id":19718,"date":"2013-03-19T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19718"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:28:52","slug":"jersey-and-guernsey-are-circling-like-vultures-over-the-carcass-of-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/19\/jersey-and-guernsey-are-circling-like-vultures-over-the-carcass-of-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey and Guernsey are circling like vultures over the carcass of Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I have to note this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/YuriBender\/tweets\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Yuri Bender @yuribender<\/a> of the FT&#39;s Professional Wealth Management just tweeted \"Channel Islands currently doing their best to attract Russian clients\".<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> And I am sure it is true.<\/p>\n<p>Like vultures picking over a carcass the Channel Isalnds will be delighting at Cyprus&#39; misfortune - which they themsves only avoided because the UK taxpayer saved the British banks that underpin the economies of Jersey and Guernsey. <\/p>\n<p>And in this behavioiur - which Dave Jones of Guernsey has said is happening in the comments section of this blog - the Channel Islands reveal their true colours because let&#39;s be clear, no one thinks that all the money Russians held in Cyprus was legitimate. But the Channel Islands are queuing up to accept it anyway, a feat which would require turning a blind eye to its origin.<\/p>\n<p>And Jersey and Guernsey wonder why I criticise them. Isn&#39;t it obvious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to note this: Yuri Bender @yuribender of the FT&#39;s Professional Wealth Management just tweeted &#8220;Channel Islands currently doing their best to attract Russian<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/19\/jersey-and-guernsey-are-circling-like-vultures-over-the-carcass-of-cyprus\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guernsey","category-jersey","category-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}