Nice Little Island, Shame If It Got Broke

The abolition of feudalism on Sark has provoked an ugly reaction from a couple of local thugs. Although the Barclay brothers do not live on the island, did not stand in the recent election and had no vote, they published a list of nine candidates whom they wanted to win, and another list of twelve whom "they believed would be ruinous to the island". Two of the nine won, and three of the twelve lost; and, living by their beliefs, the Barclays have started ruining the island. More accurately, they have started ruining the people of the island, who have failed to repay the Barclays' investment by voting as they were told. The brothers' minion on Sark placed the responsibility squarely where it belongs by saying that the people had written the "longest commercial suicide note in history", much as a man commits suicide who refuses to obey orders when a gun is at his head: all the fault is with the man who dies, and all the glory is with the gunman.