Nothing here about the British sending warships to the former French channel islands?

[mallisarealperson]

I know. I do not normally feed them.

[Eirikur]

There is a specific sub forum for this issue....

No Jersey was never a member of the EU

and

no one in Jersey pays UK tax
Jersey has no representation at Westminster
Jersey is home to shell companies that avoid paying UK Nat Ins
Jersey holds over 10% of Sterling in tax avoidance schemes
so let them defend their own waters

[_V_]

No Jersey was never a member of the EU

and

no one in Jersey pays UK tax
Jersey has no representation at Westminster
Jersey is home to shell companies that avoid paying UK Nat Ins
Jersey holds over 10% of Sterling in tax avoidance schemes
so let them defend their own waters

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-48354081

A new list of corporate tax havens has named Jersey as the seventh most "aggressive" in the world.


The Tax Justice Network created the ranking by assigning a "haven score" based on 20 different criteria.

Both Jersey and Guernsey scored 98 out of a possible 100, putting them "up there with the worst".

I would say Channel islands are the BEST tax havens in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_...derick_Barclay

Their businesses have been accused of tax avoidance, by placing assets under ownership of companies registered abroad and controlled through trusts. Their Press Holdings company owns Apollo and The Spectator magazine and, through a wholly owned subsidiary (Press Acquisitions Limited), they also own Telegraph Group Limited, parent company of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.^[3]

In 1993, the brothers bought the lease of the island of Brecqhou, off the coast of Sark, Brecqhou being one of the smallest of the British Channel Islands.

[vetran]

No Jersey was never a member of the EU

and

no one in Jersey pays UK tax
Jersey has no representation at Westminster
Jersey is home to shell companies that avoid paying UK Nat Ins
Jersey holds over 10% of Sterling in tax avoidance schemes
so let them defend their own waters

Indeed so why do the French think they are entitled to threaten it because their fishermen can't fill out forms?

The change is however driven by Brexit.

Maybe we should just ignore such things?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/d...s-1602080.html

[tazdevil]

What, a sub-forum for handing back land that belongs rightfully to other nations?

??? The Falklands predate Argentina and were never Argentinian, Gibraltar is as much British as Ceuta is Spanish, most of Northern France is historically British. What's your problem with historical reality?

[_V_]

??? The Falklands predate Argentina and were never Argentinian, Gibraltar is as much British as Ceuta is Spanish, most of Northern France is historically British. What's your problem with historical reality?

Ceuta does not rightfully belong to Spain and should be handed back. So should Gibraltar. Just because an island is not inhabitated, does not mean it can be taken by another nation, especially so far away.


If I were Argentinian I would seize one of these and declare "This island was never part of the UK, since no UK person lives there"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...nds_of_England

[Eirikur]

Who will get the Falklands (and other overseas territories for that matter) after Scotland leaves the UK? I suppose the Scots could lay a claim on it. Why would everything fall to England by default?

[mallisarealperson]

No Jersey was never a member of the EU

and

no one in Jersey pays UK tax
Jersey has no representation at Westminster
Jersey is home to shell companies that avoid paying UK Nat Ins
Jersey holds over 10% of Sterling in tax avoidance schemes
so let them defend their own waters

Wonder how many French live in Jersey?

Also let's talk about Monaco. It is a separate country, but not completely. In 2002, a new treaty between France and Monaco specified that, should there be no heirs to carry on the Grimaldi dynasty, the principality would still remain an independent nation rather than revert to France. Monaco's military defence, however, is still the responsibility of France.

[OwlHoot]

I mean, isn't it time we returned those islands to their rightful French ownership? ..

Most were ceded to Normandy by the King of France in the early 900s. So they've been British ever since the Conquest.

King John managed to hold on to them when the rest of Normandy was ceded to France after the Battle of Bouvines in 1214.

[vetran]

Ceuta does not rightfully belong to Spain and should be handed back. So should Gibraltar. Just because an island is not inhabitated, does not mean it can be taken by another nation, especially so far away.


If I were Argentinian I would seize one of these and declare "This island was never part of the UK, since no UK person lives there"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...nds_of_England

And you would find yourself looking down the barrel of a large naval gun.