The UK is one of the most corrupt nations on Earth | Politics | The Guardian
These activities are a perpetuation of colonial looting: a means by which vast riches are siphoned out of poorer countries and into the hands of the super-rich. The UK s great and unequal wealth was built on colonial robbery: the land and labour stolen in Ireland, America and Africa, the humans stolen by slavery, the $45tn bled from India.
Just as we distanced ourselves from British slave plantations in the Caribbean, somehow believing that they had nothing to do with us, now we distance ourselves from British organised crime, much of which also happens in the Caribbean. The more you learn, the more you realise that this is what it s really about: grand larceny is the pole around which British politics revolve.
A no-deal Brexit, which Boris Johnson seems to favour, is likely to cement the UK s position as the global entrepot for organised crime. When the EU s feeble restraints are removed, under a government that seems entirely uninterested in basic accountability, the message we send to the rest of the world will be even clearer than it is today: come here to wash your loot.
If this is true, it’s bad. Not sure it’s true though.