Jamie has a modest proposal on how to reclaim much of the public money ownded by tax dodgers:
Tell me, is there any practical reason why we can’t just invade Jersey and the Isle of Man, sequester the money in the various tax evasion accounts and filter it through the appropriate regulations, disbursing the remainder to its owners once tax at mainland levels had been excised – obviously relating only to those funds liable to British taxation.
I know money can be transferred at “a touch of a button” but I’m not talking about a full dress Operation Overlord here. Get a couple of battalions of Royal Marines, stage a nocturnal amphibious landing in conditions of absolute secrecy, secure the relevant premises, isolate key personnel – or rather concentrate them in school halls and the like with no access to communications devices – secure the account passwords and there you go.
With Dutch marines already stationed near or in our own tax havens (Aruba and the Dutcdh Antilles) I could see this picked up by our own politicians easily if Britain gave the right example. Especially if you can sell it to the PVV (Party of Freedom for those people not too brown coloured) as sticking it to the “Antillians”, their second favourite target after “Moroccans”.