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George Osborne reassures Wall Street

Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2016

George Osborne reassures Wall Street:UK won’t become ‘Little Britain’

Little America perhaps? As a “remainer” it has to be said Osborne has got into the swing of things remarkably quickly and shifted effortlessly from an Asian perspective to an atlanticist one.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned that cutting company taxes further “would really turn the UK into a tax haven type of economy”.

Well, exactly!- the kind of economy which was becoming increasingly incompatible with EU membership.

Guardian

11th July, 2016

George Osborne has promised American bank bosses that a post-Brexit Britain will “do everything we can to make the UK the most attractive place in the world to do business”.

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