I have long thought, particularly since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), that we need a revolution in the UK and most other western countries to reset our priorities. The GFC is a clinical sounding rebrand for the world banking system gambling away money and having their debts forgiven by Governments, so that they can continue trading. We bailed them out.
Except it didn’t quite go like that. This wasn’t lovely Jimmy Stewart holding up the $1 note in Its A Wonderful Life – so that his bank could continue to trade solvently. They took the money and carried on regardless – in fact the usury and sophistry escalated. And with a straight face, Governments – held to ransom by the very banks they saved – look to the people to make sacrifices. We’re in this together, after all. Meanwhile, the largest companies in the world and the President Elect thoroughly endorse tax avoidance under the guise of financial acumen, or as Trump puts it “it makes me smart”. They now realise, with barely concealed glee, that you can actually rob people in broad daylight and they don’t mind. You don’t need smoke and mirrors anymore.
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