Nearly 40% of dirty money is laundered in London and UK crown dependencies

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1. So you’re saying we’re the best in the world at something?

2. I thought laundering– sorry, *financial services*, was proudly one of our top exports?

3. This has been known for years. The Spiders Web: Britains Second Empire, is a great documentary about it.

4. Are we surprised?

   It’s all that’s propping this fucking country up.

5. Isn’t this one of the reasons for Brexit? We didn’t want the coming anti money laundering laws the EU had planned? I remember reading that somewhere.

6. The EU starts pushing for a crack down on dirty money. The UK rich and powerful suddenly starts pushing for, and is ultimately successful with Brexit.

   I see no connection here.

7. England set up the whole of the fraudulent banking system. Hiding money in its overseas territories etc. The city of London operates under different laws than the rest of the UK and has its own mayor Police force etc. People say that our Royal family have no real power, but the late queen did exercise hers a few times. She told parliament that the Royal Family would not be transparent with their money investments and where they come from etc. Parliament agreed.

   I’m not a conspiracy theorist at all, but how the banking system has been set up has one purpose only. To feed the rich.

   There are many resources you can read online about how the system has been set up.

   For an interesting fact, my cousin is the chief cashier of the bank of England.

8. That’s because the government are based in London! So not a surprised most money gets laundered there.

9. And here was me thinking it was all done on traceable blockchains that will stay public for decades. Silly me.

10. We need to figure out how to capture the other 60% of the market.

11. Who would have thought the people who pillaged all across the globe and kept resources that did not belong to them would be facilitating the same thing decades later. The only difference now is its citizens are not really benefiting from all the prosperity.

12. Just one more reason to be proud of our enlightened political Leadership.