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All countries are amoral, self-interested actors. There is nothing special about Britain.
by atmosx 9y ago
All countries are amoral, self-interested actors. There is nothing special about Britain.
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- oldcynic 9y ago...and the EU, for all its many faults, has been quite successful restraining the worst of those tendencies, and balancing the needs of citizens.
- atmosx 9y agoI believe that the EU is fueling those tendencies. I'm referring to financial policies primarily and immigration crisis response secondarily actively pushing Europe towards extremism. Extreme right wing (mostly) and left wing political forces are setting the agenda of every member's election of the last 4 years.
- nwatson 9y agoBritain is special in their extraordinary accommodation to money laundering. It just looks cleaner and respectable when it reaches Britain. https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/london-is-now-the-global-money-laundering-centre-for-the-drug-trade-says-crime-expert-10366262.html%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cri...
- atmosx 9y agoMany countries do similar things. Ireland with tech giants, Cyprus, Switzerland and Luxembourg with personal bank accounts, Greece a nearly no tax policy for shipping magnets, etc. just different business models, you trade one thing for another. Again, nothing special about a country trying to gain a competitive advantage in one sector or another