{"id":822,"date":"2017-11-06T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:31:19","slug":"money-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/money-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Money in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m often taken back to the scene in Casablanca\u00a0 (kids etc) where Claud Rains\u2019 corrupt policeman says he\u2019s \u2018Shocked, SHOCKED to find that gambling is going on in here\u2019, as he collects his winnings. Rich people with money offshore? Quelle surprise and, as the many articles are careful to say, \u2018the vast majority of transactions involve no wrongdoing\u2019. It\u2019s an open secret that if you want to find the end destination of piles of this money which of course isn\u2019t dodgy, you need look no further than our own capital city, where you\u2019ll find most of the estimated \u00a3200bn of UK property owned by offshore, tax-haven companies. So at least some of it\u2019s coming back from our colonies and protectorates, to support our service industries. Like estate agents.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Casablanca Shocked\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HMIyDf3gBoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2017\/nov\/05\/paradise-papers-leak-reveals-secrets-of-world-elites-hidden-wealth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m often taken back to the scene in Casablanca\u00a0 (kids etc) where Claud Rains\u2019 corrupt policeman says he\u2019s \u2018Shocked, SHOCKED to find that gambling is going on in here\u2019, as he collects his winnings. Rich people with money offshore? Quelle surprise and, as the many articles are careful to say, \u2018the vast majority of transactions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,60,61],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}