British Newspaper, The Guardian , has replied British Prime Minister, David
Cameron on his comment about 'fantastically corrupt' Nigeria and Afghanistan.
In its editorial, the newspaper said he 'is guilty of epic hypocrisy.'
Below is the Editorial:
There are times when a manual earth-restructuring implement is best referred
to as a spade, so let us speak plainly. A summit on corruption will be held on
Thursday in a city that is internationally recognised (by the IMF, among others)
as a tax haven. It is being hosted by a politician who admitted last month that
he has personally profited from offshore finance and whose party is bankrolled
by an industry that makes extravagant use of those same tax havens. Not only
that, he has intervened to aid tax avoiders. That’s right, David Cameron is
holding a meeting on corruption.
The prime minister is not personally corrupt – but he is certainly guilty of epic
hypocrisy. So, for that matter, are Britain and the west. They have spent
decades ordering poor countries and failed states to sort out their problems
with dodgy money, even while taking much of that dodgy money and ploughing
it through their banks, their ritzy stores, their estate agents, and their offshore
tax havens – with barely any questions asked or eyebrows raised. WhenMr
Cameron was caught on camera on Tuesday boasting to the Queen of the
“fantastically corrupt countries” turning up at Lancaster House this week, he
might have mentioned that Afghanistan is a failed state that did not get any
less failed over 13 years of British intervention. And he should certainly have
mentioned that the president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, is coming to
London to lobby it to sort out the tax havens in its own backyard.
Indeed, Mr Cameron might have quoted a letter sent to him a fortnight ago by
campaigners in Nigeria .
“We are embarked on a nationwide anti-corruption campaign,” the letter said.
“But these efforts are sadly undermined if countries such as your own are
welcoming our corrupt to hide their ill-gotten gains in your luxury homes,
department stores, car dealerships, private schools and anywhere else that will
accept their cash with no questions asked. The role of London’s property
market as vessels to conceal stolen wealth has been exposed in court
documents, reports, documentaries and more.” So the president of the Nigerian
senate, Bukola Saraki, currently facing allegations that he failed to declare his
assets, owns a property in London’s Belgravia in his own name. But last
month’s Panama Papers revealed that the £5.7m property next door is owned
by companies incorporated in the Seychelles and British Virgin Islands, whose
respective shareholders are Saraki’s wife and former special assistant. And a
£1.65m townhouse in Kensington is shown as belonging to a BVI company
whose sole shareholder is Folorunsho Coker, former head of the number plate
production authority of the state of Lagos and currently business adviser to the
governor of Lagos. None of these individuals may have done anything wrong,
but the charge from those campaigners is hard to duck. Under successive
governments, from Thatcher to Blair to Cameron, London has become the
financial centre for the world’s dirty money.
A third of all the trillions hiding offshore are sitting in tax havens linked to the
UK , according to Oxfam. These havens rely on Britain for security and
protection. The Jersey pound note features the Queen. On the Caymans, they
sing as the national anthem God Save the Queen. Yet Whitehall persists in
pretending they are autonomous – even though London has overridden them
before, on the abolition of capital punishment, say, or the decriminalising of
homosexual acts. It will not do so on shady finance, however. The result is that
Britain will soon bring in a public register of who ultimately owns the companies
listed here – even while its overseas territories won’t. The Caymans and the
rest claim that this is because they are home to perfectly legitimate operations
– in which case, what have they got to hide?
This fudge suits both the City and the havens. The accountancy firms and tax
lawyers and wealth managers in London will continue to reap fat fees by using
their branch offices scattered across offshore Britain to look after clients
seeking low tax and secrecy – even while the UK can claim that its domestic
financial industry is as clean as can be. Few will call this corruption or
hypocrisy, as it wears a sharp suit and talks so nicely.
In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Cecily implores Gwendolen:
“This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I
call it a spade.” The reply comes: “I am glad to say that I have never seen a
spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.”

The thing about Britain is that not enough people there give a damn about this since they see it as being to their benefit that these monies are ending up in London. The Guardian article, poignant as it is, will end there, and the status quo will persist, unfortunately.

Apt from the Guardian

Silly statement from Cameron

#ReturnOurMoney



......The Subsidy removal sha. !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTQ52ALqqYQ

[size=14pt]Return stolen assets, Buhari tells Cameron[/size]

That is why i love the UK and infact the rest of the developed western world. They say it as it is. Regardless of whose ox is gored, even if it means the prime minister.
If it were in Nigeria, some tajus would ask buhari to shut down the newspaper calling it an IPOB news.
sick people.

CSTR5:
That is why i love the UK and infact the rest of the developed western world. They say it as it is. Regardless of whose ox is gored, even if it means the prime minister.
If it were in Nigeria, some tajus would ask buhari to shut down the newspaper calling it an IPOB news.
sick people.

Why didn't you love Malaysia abi na Chinese for saying it as it is about Ibo people being criminals? Make I find that video for you.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qD-mwouPsQ

Fugazi:


Why didn't you love Malaysia abi na Chinese for saying it as it is about Ibo people being criminals? Make I find that video for you.

You are sick. Go and have your head checked.

CSTR5:
You are sick. Go and have your head checked.

You sound frustrated and bias.
UK calls Nigeria corrupt - You loved it.
Thailand singled out Igbos as drugdealers - You're pissed.

Both claims are true by the way.

Fugazi:


Why didn't you love Malaysia abi na Chinese for saying it as it is about Ibo people being criminals?.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qD-mwouPsQ

U are not even sure of who said it. & yet u shamelessly said it any way.

diagro:
U are not even sure of who said it. & yet u shamelessly said it any way.

lmao as if this is a new video. Please shut up. Thailand custom officer said it.
You can't swallow one and ignore the other. Both accusations from UK and Thailand are correct.

Fugazi:


You sound frustrated and bias.
UK calls Nigeria corrupt - You loved it.
Thailand singled out Igbos as drugdealers - You're pissed.

Both claims are true by the way.

Oh, it's no longer "Malaysia abi Chinese" ? See how ur judgment has got warped by tribalist desperation.

But to say the fact David Cameron is right after all because what he said is very true he might not referred to buhari gvt because corruption is not start today it has been a decades in Nigeria but david is not in position to criticize Nigeria that we fantastically corrupt .

Fugazi:


lmao as if this is a new video. Please shut up. Thailand custom officer said it.
You can't swallow one and ignore the other. Both accusations from UK and Thailand are correct.

I can see ur mentality is too low. From Malaysia to Chinese to Thailand. Next u childishly write 'shut up' to deny ur own confusion. After this, any more rants from u will be thoroughly ignore as befits ur level.

diagro:
Oh, it's no longer "Malaysia abi Chinese" ? See how ur judgment has got warped by tribalist desperation.

Those are your destinations. Thailand-China-Malaysia.
Stop making noise dunce, the fact that Thailand singled y'all out should concern you instead of blowing hot air on NL.

lmaoo

UK Calls Nigeria corrupt
Thailand calls Igbos drug dealing criminals

Both are true, but some people would only agree with the former. See the dude's flat.head. Damn


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dASnWhwzL-Y

johnmartus:
But to say the fact David Cameron is right after all because what he said is very true he might not referred to buhari gvt because corruption is not start today it has been a decades in Nigeria but david is not in position to criticize Nigeria that we fantastically corrupt .

Did u even complete ur primary education? U type like a Retard

Respect55:


Did u even complete ur primary education? U type like a Retard

common sense you don't have i wonder how pathetic you will be to your father slowpoke

johnmartus:
common sense you don't have i wonder how pathetic you will be to your father slowpoke

Sori smallie. I dnt argue with mediocre lyk u