UK to impose direct rule over British Virgin Islands after inquiry finds rampant corruption | British Virgin Islands | The Guardian
UK to impose direct rule over British Virgin Islands after inquiry finds rampant corruption | British Virgin Islands | The Guardian
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Somehow the Tories think that getting their grubby paws on BVI will improve things.
Perhaps we should sort our own levels of governmental corruption first!
“Hickinbottom said he had no desire to frustrate the islands’ aspirations to self-determination as a modern democracy and recommended a year-long constitutional review to end opportunities for abuse and dishonesty in public office.”
Hmmmmm
Presumably the UK government plans to show them how corruption is meant to be done
There being plenty wrong in the UK doesn’t mean it’s as bad as it seems to be in the British Virgin Islands – their head of government was just arrested in Miami for trying to secure a $700K bribe to traffic cocaine! The report is [here](https://bvi.gov.vg/sites/default/files/resources/coi_report_print_version.pdf) if you want to read it – the executive summary is only 6 pages long, and the problems there are clearly at another level to here.
I’m sure they are going to close all the tax loopholes very quickly. There is no way they are going to use this to facilitate more tax avoidance.
700k of cocaine, absolute rookie numbers when it comes to dodgy shit. The Tories will show them how to turn 6 figures into 10 or 11
Please UK, take Sri Lanka back too. (I’m from there)
Wasn’t our former attorney general out there defending this geezer? If so he lost the case.
Sir Geoffrey Cox was working so hard in the BVI that he forgot he was a member vof parliament. He continued voting by zoom as he had been allowed to do so during covid lockdown one. I believe he was defending the crooked BVI govt against the British government.
I’m sure this headline is wrong.
Aren’t the BVI government imposing direct rule over the UK because of the rampant corruption here?
And putting it in the hands of the Tories will solve rampant corruption?????
Do me a favour 🙂
*Rule Britannia Intensifies*
NZ is next, then we recombine Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh into New British India.
The Tories will show these amateurs what real corruption is!
Heard this story on the news driving home. Something about how, as part of the UK ‘family’, the high standards of transparency, fairness and respect for the law should be upheld there.
….. the irony.
If anyone here is from the BVI, whats your thoughts on this?
Let me have my fun.
I don’t trust the Tories to do anything for the benefit of anyone other than themselves.
Cos direct rule by the British always ends well /s
Spoiler alert. Its not just on the Virgin Islands. The British Isles are rife with corruption too.
Everyone in this thread
“Google, where are the British Virgin Islands…..oh!!”
This is my own ignorance here but I didn’t even know that the UK could do this to an overseas territory. I’m maybe confusing it with crown dependencies.
That’s because Tories want a slice of the cocaine pie. Can’t be left out of any dodgy deal themselves.
Only Tory officials corruption channels to be used in future.
Surely the British Virgin Islands should be launching a corruption inquiry over the UK Government.
Don’t suppose the BVI will notice much change then
I think I’m expressing a dream here but… Would it be too much asking if the UK government acted to stop the BVI from bring the world’s epicentre of money laundering and tax evasion schemes?
Jesus how bad do you have to be for a Tory government to go. “Ok wow Jesus guys that’s too much”
Should impose direct rule over the lot and give each Overseas Territory its own MP. They’d be Overseas Constituencies then.
And I imagine they’d all vote left 《《《
Tory government learns of rampant corruption in British Virgin Islands and thinks ‘we’ve gotta get us a piece of that action’
Isn’t that the reason the UK still keeps it around? To funnel koney out of the country?
If you ignore the asshole British hunters who killed thousands of elephants, gaining “independence” was a really bad thing for Sri Lanka in hindsight. 74 years of unchecked corruption and lawlessness has brought Sri Lanka to where it is now. People literally dying waiting in line for commodities, and there’s no hope in sight.
What a massive surprise. Who would have thought the BVI was corrupt? Anyone who ever went there or made a casual enquiry for at least the last 40 years and probably long before that.
Don’t heads of state have diplomatic immunity when they visit foreign countries, particularly hostile ones?
This isn’t news. The British Virgin Islands are moving from one bunch of corrupt wankers to another? Same shit different shovel. No change.
If only the UK had some benevolent overlords who could come swoop in here and get rid of the corrupt Tory bastards…
direct rule from london