Letter to the Editor: Dependencies at back of queue

It was not such a shock result if you had been watching the last ten days of the hustings, when the trends were changing after Jeremy Corbyn told the students and first-time voters he would take them to the promised land with his mythical money tree.

Previously, Theresa May had been like a marathon runner leading by a mile, but then she committed the cardinal sin of looking behind to see where the opposition was and lost her momentum. The blunder that probably lost her the majority was the U-turn on social care, and she made things worse by appearing on television to declare that nothing had changed.

Where does it all leave Jersey, you ask?

Well, Theresa May is now going into the Brexit talks like an entrant for Strictly Come Dancing with one leg in plaster, and the last thing on her mind will be the Crown Dependencies.

Not long ago one of Jean-Claude Junker’s team said that the Crown Dependencies were of no consequence, as they were nothing, only ‘glorified tax havens’. I won’t be surprised if Jersey and other offshore jurisdictions are the last in line. If they are lucky, they might make ‘any other business’.

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