Britain slips to new low in corruption rankings

[Platypus]

Britain has slipped to an 11-year low in an annual ranking of the world’s most corrupt countries in the wake of the MPs’ expenses scandal.

Britain slips to new low in ranking of most corrupt countries after MPs' expenses scandal

The annual “corruption index” from Transparency International - which has been published since 1995 - found that Britain had slipped one place to 17th out of 180 countries.

The UK is now more corrupt than countries like Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Austria. Transparency International gave the UK a Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) score of 7.7. Before 2008, the UK's score had never slipped below 8.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...s-scandal.html

Oh dear. But I wonder if we are indeed more corrupt, or is it that more corruption is coming to light?

[Mich the Tester]

Gordon ran out of money for bribing the Transparency people.

[Bagpuss]

How does he see them?

[scooterscot]

That's rich coming from a newspaper owned by 2 brothers who stay in the channels islands so that they can mitigate their tax bill.

[Platypus]

That's rich coming from a newspaper owned by 2 brothers who stay in the channels islands so that they can mitigate their tax bill.

If you think that's rich, read this!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...e-classes.html

Dave Hartnett, Britain’s most senior tax inspector, gave a stark warning to the middle classes that some of them will “end up in tears” as HMRC prepares to take a hard line on foreign holdings.

He said that customers who fail to meet an end of the month deadline for voluntarily disclosing details of offshore holdings might face prosecution – and some of them could be Daily Telegraph readers.