Swiss Get F'ed Off With Rich Bankers Emigrating There

[ralphmalph]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/offshorefinance/8501225/Switzerland-threatens-to-clamp-down-on-tax-exiles.html

Boy Oh Boy, we must have some truly nice people in the City if even a Banker State like CH does not want anymore of them.

[shipbuilder]

I thought other countries were queueing up to get our bankers after we silly, jealous and ungrateful Brits had pushed them out?

[cashinmattress]

Hmm.

Well, the Swiss have a nice country, lots of great geography, but not much else.

Plus it is full of elitist snobs there.

I say let all the crooks descend on them like seagulls on a dropped Friday night kebab supper.

[Mrs Bear]

Hmm.

Well, the Swiss have a nice country, lots of great geography, but not much else.

Plus it is full of elitist snobs there.

I say let all the crooks descend on them like seagulls on a dropped Friday night kebab supper.

Switzerland is like a beautiful, carved white marble edifice over a tomb containing decayed, stinking, maggotty corpses.

It's grown fat off filthy money for years.

[The Eagle]

I haven't read so much nonsense in a long time in a HPC thread (and that's no mean feat), you almost sound like Americans talking about other parts of the world....

Next I hear you saying that Germany is still ruled by the Nazis and the French all smell of garlic.

Obviously you deserve to scrape a miserable living in that dunghole that still calls itself Great Britain.

In 2003, the financial sector comprised an estimated 11.6% of Switzerland's GDP and employed approximately 196,000 people (136,000 of whom work in the banking sector); this represents about 5.6% of the total Swiss workforce.

GDP by sector

primary (1.1%)

secondary (25.3%)

tertiary (73.6%)

https://secure.wikim..._of_Switzerland

the financial sector accounted for 15% of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP)

GDP by sector

agriculture: 0.9%;

industry: 22.1%;

services: 77.1% (2010 est.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8270404.stm

and

https://secure.wikim..._United_Kingdom

The UK is much more reliant on the Banksters than Switzerland.

If all Swiss financial sector employees were to be made redundant that would only increase the unemployment levels to current UK levels, the UK on the other hand would be fcuked without the CIty.

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Edited May 9, 2011 by wise_eagle

[_w_]

http://www.telegraph...tax-exiles.html

Boy Oh Boy, we must have some truly nice people in the City if even a Banker State like CH does not want anymore of them.

That's just not fair. They wanted our garbage, now they keep it.

Now shoo Switzerland. Be a good sport and leave us to rebuild the country in peace.