Abu Dhabi is a haven for Russian dirty money – we cannot allow it to buy a British bank
Global systemically important institutions must cannot be snapped up by dubious suitors
The entire point of Standard Chartered is that it doesn’t really do business in Britain. It’s a colonial bank that just happens to be registered here. But obviously those brown fellahs can’t be allowed to own their own banking system. Tsk. That would be to ask whether Magna Carta died in vain.
And that money obviously isn’t hidden if they know where it is…
It’s just that they can’t get their grubby claws on it. And that huuuurtss….
Abu Dhabi is a haven for Russian dirty money
But London isn’t, of course.
All lucre is filthy but how dirty is Russian money?
But obviously those brown fellahs can’t be allowed to own their own banking system.
If Standard Chartered charges interest, then the bank technically doesn’t follow Islamic banking rules and some in the UAE might have a problem with that.
The UAE is relatively relaxed about following Islamic practices if there’s money or hedonistic pleasure to be gained by ignoring them.
Whoever wrote that seems to have a problem with the english language, don’t they? Author or sub-editing enrichment?
That Ben Marlow ought to be writing for the Guardian, he’s that much of a twat.
It occurs to me that there might be a market for a paper that is actually right wing, because the Telegraph certainly isn’t it any more, its been largely taken over by the woke urbanites. My paper would have to be run from somewhere immune to metropolitan influences. Perhaps Stoke, or Scunthorpe.