Turks and Caicos Islands to suspend UK’s self-government after allegations of ministerial corruption

by ecologics

Actually, it’s the other way around: Brown’s government decided to ‘suspend’ Galmo Williams’ government after an enquiry—of a kind not allowed in the UK itself—decreed that Williams was involved in acts of corruption. A British governor will now rule the islands on Britain’s behalf for up to two years.

This blogger wonders: if our own prime minister has just been told to return some £12,000+ which he wrongly charged the state—and if a significant number of members of his party are being told to do the same—then where lies our/their moral authority to suspend local government in the Turks and Caicos Islands? Might it not be argued, on the basis of our own government’s practices, that New Labour (and of course the Tories too) are guilty, as the enquiry in the Turks and Caicos Islands put it, of “systematic corruption or serious dishonesty“?

(Let’s not even begin to discuss what the UK is doing in Turks and Caicos in the first place.)