Britain. Ruled by the banks for the banks.
 

An interesting piece in the Guardian today with some thought provoking stuff.

"....the politicians declare that the national interest of Britain can be defined by what suits one square mile of it."

From here.

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Also an interesting piece by Robert Fisk in The Independent...

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What a bunch of bankers.

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Bugger. :(

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Auch you need to just chill and relax and : http://youtu.be/WlBiLNN1NhQ :p:

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Yep both of those seem pretty accurate for the most part.

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articles brilliant put would not call it bankocracy I would call it corruption of the highest magnatude. It just shows who really runs the world.

You get party in who got leader who got fat off his father stockbroker profits a sidekick who also involved in banking. Pay there election campaign to get in power but actually engineered getting the country into financial mess too.

Before you deliberately cause issues which stupidly like naive party bails you out with 1 trillion of money the country really cant afford. In meantime while all this going off you pay hardly any tax as you got everyone in power in your pocket. Engineer a mess and control the pupets. Top of it countries all in debt to the pupetmasters who now threatening AAA ratings. Damn they know how to wield power when they get together as think the must have.

Regulation cant come sooner enough and loopholes closed.

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Before you denigrate his father, you may wish to read his obituary to have a more informed view.

But I doubt if you will.....

Funny, how in that post, you managed to completely avoid mentioning Labour - it's as if they weren't in power for 13 years....

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Yes l read the obituary and he certainly went though a lot and seems a nice man but also lets not get into the political blame game again as yes Labour made mistakes and plenty of them but no more then the previous government before Labour came to power in 1997 or the present coalition who increasingly seem to be stumbling from week to week with a worsening economic crisis and a increasingly fractured relationship with the Lib Dems.

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Not "blame game" - balanced view.

There is a difference....

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A balanced view is perfectly fine Hugh but sometimes posters seem to align themselves very quickly to one party or the other and that tends to cloud or distort their opinions and views.:)

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Oh, the irony....:D

But I do agree with you.

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I pointing that clouded his judgement to side with the protection of the banks.

No did not ignore labour they got duped into bailing out the banks at the cost of the country. Yes they made mistakes but there biggest was to get laughed at by the bankers.

The whole facet looks one big sham engineered to get the banks into position of control and power.

Surely hugh you yourself is questioning all the goings on. It looks so blatant if the gardian questioning things then maybe we all should be.

Problem is cant see we can do anything to stop the corruption of these banks. Especially if they got government power.

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They are all crooks and they get away with it from the government and enough said about them.

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cue the the bankers elite core to say we as a country need these greedy capitalists.

Yes I am aware if we let them leave there would be a gap in tax income, but the entire financial sector wouldnt be gone, retail banking would remain, its just the investment side I want either gone or severely legislated and taxed.

That storyville documentary where there is a economy based on people betting on defaults and the like makes me sick to the stomach. The US and UK financial success always based on house prices and investment bankers and we now know why governments fight so hard to keep the housing market up.