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In reply to the discussion: Possibly momentous ruling from the EU high court [View all]DFW
(54,370 posts)I have no contacts in Scotland at all, never even been there.
Leaving with no deal is worse than leaving with a decent deal which is still worse than canceling the whole Brexit. The EU crackdown on money laundering is sporadic and haphazard at best, a cruel joke at worst. In France and, especially, Belgium, in order to let the big boys get away free, they have brigades of corrupt financial police going around accusing small shops and people who have nothing to do with money laundering of...money laundering. They concoct fictitious accusations, confiscate whatever objects of value they can, steal what they can for themselves, and then return what they choose to their victims after five or ten years. This way, they show the newspapers and their corrupt judges that they are "active," while the big money launderers are left to get away with no scrutiny at all, unless they get fingered by accident from outside (USA, Asia, etc.). I'm sure that the biggest dark money in the UK is so well insulated that it will be left to operate in peace just as it is in France and Belgium.
It figures that when the EU offers the UK the proverbial get-out-of-jail-free card, that the government declines the offer. The preferences of the population of the UK don't appear to interest anyone. I agree fully with your assessment of Corbyn, hoped that Labour would have come up with someone more pragmatic at this point, but I guess they are under no greater obligation to adopt common sense than the Tories.