Good Luck Roly

[Observer]

The problem on your island is that you have strange people with names like 'ans' who act as apologist for a very sorry state of affairs.

Can't say I've ever encountered a real life person called Ans in day to day life on the Isle of Man - I can say that I have encountered far stranger names on internet forums though :-)

Internationally the Isle of Man is viewed as a tax haven with banking secrecy laws that allow  a lot of funny money to be laundered.

That is a very outdated opinion - I suggest you read up on your jurisdictions.

It may of course happen in a lot of other places such as the City of London but at least in England there is a multi party system and vehicles such as Newsnight and Channel Four News where people can be publicly called to account.

The UK is now one of the more prevalent areas used for money laundering - they are way behind the offshore centres in terms of regulation and accountability.

Whilst you persist in having a system which is unaccountable, lacking in transparency and not not subject to public scrutiny and dedate you will always have a system that is closed and vulnerable to greed and corruption.

I agree with you at this point, although not with regard to the transparency of our financial services. It would appear that our political health leaves a lot to be desired and that our journalists are tongue tied for some reason when it comes to informing the manx people on local domestic affairs.

Even on Jersey they have offshore watch which is backed by Austin Mitchell MP. They attempt to show that the offshore jurisdictions only function in terms of money laundering with the active participation of firms of accountants and lawyers. Until these problems are addressed then corruption will be rampant. This is simply because there are vast sums of money to be made and where there's money there's muck.

I am not familiar with Jersey's offshore watch (?) though can see how it might be suggested that money laundering would be assisted by accountants and lawyers but would also suggest that the assistance is born out of ignorance of the offence in progress rather than facilitating the crime. Subtle difference there but a difference nonetheless.

[ans]

I ve just read ans' reply two back. I think that is quite unpleasant and definitely uncalled for. But there again it is your ball.

 

Huh?

[FCMR]

Lets say for example, the information was accurate and the source was a Civil Servant. That person could risk losing their job, home etc for passing on information that they are aware of but disagree with.

 

Have you ever told someone something in confidence?

 

If it was in confidence, then telling some guy who ran a political website probably wasn't the smartest move.

 

I can see what you're saying, but really, when you enter into employment you have a duty to keep confidential information just that. If you can't respect that then you can't complain at the consequences.

 

If they were that concerned at the adverse effect on their livelihoods, they should have stfu

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Tell that to Mr Corkill.

 

He has not answered this yet and has had plenty of time.

http://www.feegan.com/manx/yn_pabyr_seyr.htm

[ans]

Tell that to Mr Corkill.

 

I thought he had stfu

[The Old Git]

but at least Roly is free to continue to do what he does do.

 

I thought he still had a rather big libel case in the UK courts hanging over his head?

[crumlin]

One day the Chief Minister was out jogging without his guards. All of a sudden a man with a sky mask jumped out from behind with a gun and shouted- Give me all your money NOW!!

 

Unwilling to do so, The Chief Minister said, You cant do this, Im the Chief Minister.

 

The man thought for a second and then replied- Oh, never mind then give me my Money