Don’t let other countries bully us

Friday 30th October 2009, 2:59PM GMT.

From Advocate Philip Sinel.
I READ with interest the article (JEP, 20 October) quoting the former Senator Walker’s comments in relation to the European Union’s attack on our tax system, from which one derives the fact that having said yes they are now saying no.

What I do not understand is how we have reached the situation where we have made other countries believe that they have a right to interfere in relation to our fiscal system. Our fiscal system has been ours to command and control for over 800 years.

It is for this reason that the Island is outside of the EU policies on social and fiscal harmonisation.

Our subscribing to the European Convention on Human Rights was a good thing. Allowing other countries to bully us in relation to the conduct of our own finances is a very bad thing.

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S Butterworth

October 31, 2009 at 5:02 pm

The problem is that the EU is a unaudited (14 years and counting) Communist state in the building. This is why other countries love to meddle with places like Jersey and make no mistake all European countries are being “harmonized” whether they voted NO in any referendum. The Communist state rolls out. Look to the UK for evidence of what is to come.

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Arnald

November 2, 2009 at 1:52 pm

Silvio Berlusconi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, that Czech Republic loon?

Communists?

and the rest

If you hadn’t noticed (you couldn’t have, been busy digesting the Murdock/Dacre/Desmond opinion hegemonists, there’s been a consolidation of majority in the centre right, with the centre left losing out to a divided Green/Leftist movement, and the sceptics pouring into hard right coalitions.

Communism is the last thing i’d call it.

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