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Nick<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PrivateEye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateEye</span></a> reported on English property transferred to overseas companies in the period 2005-2014 only.</p><p>All of this orange land featured, mostly transferred to a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bathurst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bathurst</span></a> trust in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bermuda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bermuda</span></a>. </p><p>The preservation of the historical profits of Transatlantic slavery, using a British <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> tax haven. 50% of Bermudans are black, mostly descended from African slaves.</p><p>The map is a really interesting piece of journalism:<br><a href="https://www.private-eye.co.uk/registry" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">private-eye.co.uk/registry</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cirencester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cirencester</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cotswolds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cotswolds</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TaxHavens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaxHavens</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a></p>
Nick<p>The thing with somewhere like <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cirencester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cirencester</span></a> is that it is superficially an unusually pretty English market town dating back to the Romans. But when you look at why it’s full of pretty buildings and private parks from the 18th and 19th centuries, you realise the truth is very, very ugly indeed.</p><p>The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bathurst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bathurst</span></a> family are still the literal lords of the manor, thanks to money from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a>. They still own much of the land in and around town, through offshore trusts to dodge UK tax.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cotswolds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cotswolds</span></a></p>
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