Ah, but white-collar crime isn’t really crime, is it?

If we had to suddenly examine the UK for building a worldwide money laundering and reinvestment scheme, the SFO would be very busy … if that’s too much, they could check out every closed-shortlist ‘competitive tender process’ … although that would also take a while …

Multiply that by every capitalist country in the world, which is most of them nowadays.

The US is equally as corrupt in this regard.

It's worth bearing in mind that London is often referred to as the laundromat of the world for dirty money.

It's also nicknamed Londongrad because of all the oligarchs hiding their stolen billions in luxury houses that sit empty.

People don't realise how corrupt the UK is because the British (let's be honest mainly English) know how to spin, minimise, evade & manipulate like no others. Even the British public has zero clue just how corrupt it is.

Book to read: Tim Burgis ‘s Kleptopia

tomburgis.com/about

Tom Burgis

Everywhere, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth.From the bestselling author of Kleptopia comes a true story about Cuckooland – a world where the rich can buy everything – including the truth.

^{Tom Burgis}

And whilst people think Swiss bank accounts are the worst in terms of hiding dirty money, the nebulous network of tax havens based on Crown dependencies and "British" Commonwealth nations is unrivalled.

Unlike the Germans, Japanese and US Americans, the Brits don't need an orderly, streamlined and legally coherent system. The Brits thrive on a byzantine, global, murky banking prison colony. They are inmates who somehow were entrusted with the keys.

America works the same way! There's very little bribery, because the Supreme Court has chosen to define bribery as "handing an official a cartoon bag with a dollar sign on it full of money, and then they immediately carry out an official act."

Wait five minutes before the official act? Bag doesn't have a dollar sign on it? Not bribery!

@partnumber2 @sentient_water
Did they really. So there was no inequality in civilisation, before the British "invented" it...

OK lol

@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 You completely avoided what you said to me.

Great debating style. By the way I noticed your toots on the genocide going on in Palestine. Well looky who got that shit started.

"Gardner Thompson, a British historian, traces the arc of this seminal development in Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism And The Creation Of Israel, published by Saqi Books in London. A specialist in British colonial policy in Africa, he argues that the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine was precipitated by Zionist colonization and fostered by Britain."

Then there's India, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland & of course the indigenous people of America. The British have a reputation for genocide, exploitation & subjugation of billions of people throughout history.

But please tell us why you're their biggest fanboy?

@omegaprobe Essentially, yes; that’s my understanding.

But it’s only ever _partially_ repaid because no government claws back 100% of its spending back through taxation.

Someone, somewhere, in the pyramid that trickles down from central government spending, saves in a way that limits what government can reclaim.

Plus, the humans running governments place different value on different types of value exchange, e.g. capital gains vs VAT.

saw someone assert
who ? was it some medium size organization that does a lot of work measuring corruption vs your anecdotes ?

UK GDP is about 2.3 trillion pounds
UK Gov't spending about ~1.2 trillion pounds

so if this waste you are talking about is 12 BILLION pounds, that is ONE PERCENT of gov't spending