On 17 April, David Lammy, as Lord Chancellor, declined to recommend Royal Assent to a Bill to legalise assisted suicide on the Isle of Man.
Yesterday, that Bill was amended and resubmitted. Lammy should again say no, as he should to the Bill from Jersey, on the grounds that he was opposed to the principle.
If either of those Crown Dependencies did not like that, then it would be free to become independent.
Same with their tax haven status.
ReplyDeleteYes. All tax havens under British jurisdiction should be closed by an Act of Parliament that declared independent any British Overseas Territory or any Crown Dependency that had not complied within three months.
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