Britain is the most corrupt country in the world?
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Britain is the most corrupt country in the world?
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#2It would be interesting if someone can reinforce this statement from a developer perspective.
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#3'Mafia expert', isn't that an interesting job title.
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#4If true (and I have my doubts), this is particularly funny in view of the British PM's recent comments accidentally caught on mic in which he called out the most corrupt countries in the world by name.
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#5It would be interesting if someone can reinforce this statement from a developer perspective.
I think you should spend some time talking to people in Fintech and Adtech in London, you will have quite a few interesting conversations.
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#6The UK is the second country with the most intermediaries (banks, accountants, lawyers…) listed in the Panama papers. The first one is Hong Kong, a former British colony.
"More than half of the companies listed in the leaked Mossack Fonseca documents are registered in the U.K. or its overseas territories [...] If we want to understand modern Britain, we first need to realize that our primary economic function in the world today is probably our network of tax havens."
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/04/britains-empire-of-tax-e...
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#7It would be interesting if someone can reinforce this statement from a developer perspective.
What does your question mean, exactly? Corruption from a developer perspective? What would that look like?
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#8The article (and the "Mafia Expert" it's about) are both idiotic. The premise is that because corruption involves money and money involves banks and London has lots of banks, transitively, London is very corrupt. It then tries to equate Mafia violence with financial firms refusing to hire 'whistleblowers', as if having your legs chopped off is in any way comparable to having a career issue.
By similar logic, I could claim that Washington DC is the most violent city in the world, because the illegal drug trade is very violent and drugs are illegal because of politicians and there are lots of politicians in Washington DC.
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#10So the most ruthless mafia operate among international organizations, but from London, thus making Britain the most corrupt country in the world? Perhaps they never leave London, not old enough to travel alone, or they don't know how to use the internet.
There's nothing new under the sun, just the sensationalist Bremain propaganda you'd expect a few weeks before an EU referendum.