It's also a boot in the haws maws to everyone who's lost their job because of WM refusing to do their job & keep their promises to save e.g Grangemouth.

Yep, I have a friend like that. Follows Scotland every match home & away in his kilt, belting out FoS. Absolute dyed in the wool Tory & vociferous & unrepentent No.
It's probably more sad than just weird.

Plus all the Corporation Tax

Everything around this seems to suggest that Epstein was the kingpin. What if he was merely subordinate, contracted, obligated, or financially reliant, to 'AN Other'….?
That'd be a big bada boom.

Yet another Brexit bonus for any small businesses still selling into the EU

The 'could be true' scale runs from 'Absolute bollox', through myriad shades of grey, to 'Absolutely, peer reviewed, and beyond any doubt'.
I know where I'd place 'I heard it on The BBC'.

What a tangled web.
It's beyond time that all brands, whether they be media, or food, or whatever, should have to display front and & centre who their ultimate owners are.

Totally get where you're coming from, but looking at it from a Scottish perspective, if BBC Scotland was torn down, incinerated, and it's ashes scattered to the winds, there's not many up here who'd lose lose any sleep over it.

It'd probably be more interesting to know how they collated the information, especially in light of their proposed new national ID card and their vacuous promises on how its data might or might not be used.