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1971genocide

Crocodile tears are being shed.

Britain has been enriching itself using outright aggression prior to WW2, and since then using its influence in the global monetary system.

Mexico, Bangladesh and india has been for years trying to pursuade the british govt to help them get all the black money locked up in the UK back to them. And I am not sure what is going on with all the Russian black money. The Saudis too use London to hide their petroldollars and so do countless african dictators and terrorist organiznations.

It will be sweet to watch when the chickens come home to roost.

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Empire is of no relevance to British citizens today, or for a long time, whereas this is.

Also, I've never read anything about this mexican/bangladeshi/indian/russian/saudi black money that you're talking about—link?

Maybe this: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/25/its-like-a-gh... ?

The downvotes for the original poster in this thread are probably due to the rather vitriolic sounding language used.

But, setting that aside and responding to your question :

It's ironic that if you had ever followed Private Eye, you would have read all the details of money laundering through London; the original article is really about exactly that and how people can use anonymous companies (often in Nevis) to launder huge sums through London property and the lack of action by UK authorities even when egregious abuses take place.

So, a starting link is http://www.private-eye.co.uk/registry - EXACTLY the one that this discussion is about.

Exactly - the UK is the home of financial fraud. Many of the problems of tax evasion stem from their tax havens set up around the world.

The City is a cancer that is feeding on the entire world. The City needs exorcising from the UK. And like all parasites it would not survive without protection for long.

Ah, I completely misunderstood the original commenter and in my mind conflated "outright aggression since prior to WW2" stuff with the black money, I was probably confused because the money laundering is kinda what the graphic alludes to.

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