People tell me "it's ridiculous to say the UK is the most corrupt nation on Earth. Look at Zimbabwe! Look at Nigeria!"
But where is the stolen money laundered?
The City of London.
Where is it hidden?
In tax havens branching from the City of London.
But where is the stolen money laundered?
The City of London.
Where is it hidden?
In tax havens branching from the City of London.
This is corruption on an industrial scale: the processing of everyone else's corruption. The UK is so corrupt that it is either quasi-legal or ignored by police and prosecutors. No brown envelopes of cash are required to make it work. It is woven into the fabric of our economy.
It is a perpetuation of colonial looting: the means by which vast wealth is siphoned out of poorer countries and into the hands of the super-rich. The big thieves in the nations we call corrupt are merely clients of the bigger thieves in London.
The UK's great and unequal wealth was built on colonial loot: the land and labour stolen in Ireland, America and all the colonies, the humans stolen by slavery, the $15 trillion bled from India. It is sustained partly by the money-harvesting of corrupt elites in poorer nations.
