i think that when we try to make it practical and make it immediate, it can start to become a lot more politically tangible. One of the most obvious kind of legal element of decormnization that couldbe implemented in britain s this idea of the removal of the non don tax ral. Another thing is the status of,. you know, the british overseas territories, three of which are described as the three leading corpora tax havens anywhere in the world. They are as british sovereign territory as sheffield or scunthorpe, or newcastle and westminster - they hold ultimate sovereignty over these areas. This would be an explainer for lots of
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