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The British Corruption Portfolio!


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Britain is 'as corrupt as worst African states'

Britain, the US and Switzerland should rank among the world's most corrupt countries, according to a paper delivered to an economics conference at the weekend. The failure of these and other developed countries to clamp down on offshore tax havens is responsible for more hardship than any corrupt acts by third world leaders, a leading tax expert said.

"I would place the United Kingdom high on the list of most corrupt countries," said John Christensen, formerly an adviser to the Jersey government and now director of the Tax Justice Network (taxjustice.net), speaking at the Economic Geography Research Group conference.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006 ... omicpolicy

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Corrupt Britain: is it really true?

According to Transparency International, Britain is now more corrupt than Sweden, Luxembourg and Germany and former colonies like Australia, Canada and Hong Kong. But how has it come to this?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... -true.html

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British democracy: no better than Uzbekistan's

Postal ballot-rigging, partisan officials, censorship of candidates … no independent observer could call our elections free and fair

In my diplomatic career, I spent a great deal of time assessing the democratic merit of elections in various countries abroad. That gives me a peculiar perspective in looking at elections in the UK, and wondering what a foreign observer would make of them. I can do this also with the insight of having twice run as an independent parliamentary candidate.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... l-election

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Corrupt local town-hall bosses in Britain pay themselves bigger salaries than the Prime Minister

800 town hall staff earn more than ?100,000 - and council tax is going up

More than 800 town hall officials are taking home six-figure salaries, it emerged yesterday.

A survey found the number of local government officers paid more than ?100,000 has leapt by 27 per cent within the past year.

There are 132 council managers paid more than the ?137,579 annual salary of a Cabinet minister. The biggest earner was Peter Gilroy, chief executive of Kent County Council, who takes home ?229,999.

http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=2686

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OECD says Britain lacks the will to tackle corrupt business

Investigations into British firms acccused of bribing foreign companies are being hindered by a lack of "political will" to address the problem, according to a damning report by an international economic watchdog.

An inquiry by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – launched in the aftermath of the Serious Fraud Office's decision to drop an investigation into BAE Systems over bribery allegations relating to a £43bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia, and other alleged corruption cases – concluded that reform was urgently needed to address "systemic deficiencies" in the legal system.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 65586.html

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Morally corrupt: Britain's bishops deplore Labour's scandalous rule

LEADING Church of England bishops have accused the British Government of being "morally corrupt" and delivered a damning verdict on Labour's rule.

Five of the church's most senior figures said the Government presided over a country suffering family breakdown, an unhealthy reliance on debt and a growing financial divide.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/morall ... 46136.html

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Corrupt British judges exposed in corruption and blackmail scandal

Judges in blackmail case face inquiry

Two senior immigration judges were facing a top-level disciplinary inquiry last night after highly sensitive details of their sex lives and illegal employment practices were exposed in a blackmail trial involving their Brazilian cleaner.

The Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice issued a statement saying that the public needed to have confidence in the judiciary and that the allegations against the judges were sufficiently serious for them to consider an inquiry into their conduct.

http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=2192

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BRITAIN’S NASTY, CORRUPT, TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT

Totalitarianism is form of government that includes control of everything under one authority and allows no opposition, according to the dictionary.

Does this sound identical to the way Gordon Brown’s poisonous Labour Government has been heading steadily since 1997 ?

http://rocketspage.wordpress.com/2009/0 ... overnment/

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Exams system 'diseased' and 'almost corrupt'

England's exam system is "diseased" and "almost corrupt", says a former government adviser in a book on Labour's education policy.

A former director at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, Mick Waters, says exam boards are conniving in the dumbing-down of school exams.

He also claims the boards profit from textbooks that help teachers with the answers to their own exam questions.

Exam regulator Ofqual said it would investigate claims of impropriety.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11342847