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Originally Posted by Scucca  It simply cannot be denied that, following the 1998 OECD anti-bribery convention, we've fallen further behind in our failure to control bribery. Compared to the numerous prosecutions elsewhere in Europe, the Brits have managed the sum of zero. Given your Europhiling status, it strikes me as most amusing how prepared you are to accept the British "ignore it and hope no one notices" stance. |
And you dont get it. Yes european countries have prosecuted some cases, but they are nothing but token cases when you consider the amount of graft and business that is done around the world. That the UK has not prosecuted any cases, even token cases means just that they either are lazy or someone in politics has not pissed off the wrong people enough. This has nothing to do with the UK, France, or Europe, as all countries accept bribery to some extent, when it happens in the 3rd world... regardless of OECD conventions.
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The British arms industry is harmful. It reduces Britain's economic growth. There is agreement from a variety of empirical analysis: from Keynesian modeling to endogeneous growth analysis. That New Labour have been prepared to allow the profiteering to go unhindered is dreadful. That they have been encouraged to do it because of corporate bribery infecting their government makes it despicable
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Whatever... live in a world of theories that cant work in the real world. Seems to me you are anti anything and critical of everything.
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You don't seem to mind that its the British people suffering because of this criminal behaviour. But hey, there's no reason for you to care...
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Give me a freaking break. Not everything revolves around the UK. Everyone suffers because of this behaviour but as I have stated before, there is nothing that can be done as it happens in the 3rd world or other countries, outside the western legal world. Punishing companies and people for paying bribes in Colombia, China, or random african country, only hurts our companies as our competitors from the US, Russia and other countries are very willing to pay such bribes.