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All Caribbean Tax Havens Need To Declare Their Independence From Britain and Nationalize The Banks Now!
There’s a radical idea for the ages
What do Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and The Cayman Islands have in common?
They are all tax havens, sitting on tens of trillions of dollars in their accounts, far away from the reach of ordinary citizens in Britain and America, whose standard of living is no better than those in supposed third world countries.
When Britain lost most of its colonies during the wave of decolonization in the 60s and 70s, it chose to reinvent itself as a tax haven, converting a number of its colonies in the Caribbean Islands for this sole purpose.
What’s interesting about these places is that they are governed from Whitehall, the seat of Britain’s civil service and they (Britain’s civil servants) are the ones who get to decide who the governor-general (administrators)of these places are.
Whenever the subject of squeezing tax havens are brought up, we are told that there’s nothing that British governments can do about it, given that these distant places operate independently of Westminster.
But this is a bare faced lie.
The control of these tax havens are firmly in the British government’s control and…