Put squalid tax havens out of business - Red Ken

FORMER Mayor of London Ken Livingstone is the latest high-profile commentator to target closing down Guernsey as a ‘tax haven’.

Speaking at a Fabian Society conference, Mr Livingstone joked about invading the island to achieve this aim.

And in an open letter to Gordon Brown, published in the society’s latest review, he talks more seriously about international changes creating the chance to ‘squeeze squalid little tax havens out of existence’.

According to the society’s Next Left blog, during the conference Mr Livingstone pointed out that de Gaulle tried to prevent tax avoidance in Monaco by sending tanks to the principality’s border.

Mr Livingstone, 63, supported a proposal that half of the money spent on benefit-fraud advertising should target tax avoidance.

‘I suppose it’s a step to invading Guernsey,’ he said.

Fabian Society general secretary Sunder Katwala said the session Mr Livingstone was talking in was held in a Dragon’s Den-style format at its new year conference.(from thisisguernsey0

Squalid... our States members will like that....