Bankers to the Mob

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Malcolm Evans
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The City of London and London are not the same thing. Essentially, there are two Londons: Greater London and the City of London, otherwise known as “the City” or the Square Mile. Technically the Queen has to apply for permission to enter “the City.” 

As the British Empire declined, the city of London, once the Empire’s beating heart, secretly and covertly reinvented itself.  From once being the hub from which the machinery of Empire operated, “The City” has, in recent years, transformed its finance and banking services, to now make Britain and its dependencies into the world’s largest tax haven.

Established in remote and formerly insignificant outposts of empire, “the City” operates a spider’s web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions set up to capture secret and stolen wealth from across the globe and funnel it back to “the City.” 

Serving above all the interests of “the one percent” and with callous disregard for the harm done to the people and countries dispossessed, it is now estimated that up to half of all illicit “offshore” wealth may be held in British tax havens 

Financial services is how Britain’s elite generate their wealth and it is also where former British government ministers, senior civil servants and retired spooks from MI5 and Mi6 receive lucrative consulting positions when they hang up their umbrellas.

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And, as exposed in this YouTube documentary, “The Spider’s Web – Britain’s Second Empire,” it’s amazing to see the lengths “the City” is prepared to go to to disguise its activities. 

16 COMMENTS

  1. Another telling indictment on the fantasy of our ‘way of life’…that critical states are supposedly jealous..of.

  3. That was a very interesting documentary and, not surprisingly, the politicians involvement.

    Got me thinking about some of the challenges in NZ, the licence to print money that our supermarket and liquor industries are. And our so called guardian from being rorted and or damaged by both, Minister, David Clark. He talks like he cares, well kind of, but his walk is entirely that of a man whose sole purpose in life is to ensure the preservation of the status quo.

    Same with equally useless Megan Woods and housing. Perfect in fact!

    And an easy argument of the same could be made at our present and past health ministers, Little and Clark. Both have or are ensuring consultancies are making a killing whilst the public health service is run into the ground, in essence paving the way for a privatised health system.

    Guess who wins in all of those examples?

    I mean surely, such a collection of sheer incompetency and idiots such as those people does not exist for real?

  4. https://www.alexcartoon.com/index.cfm?cartoon_num=8153
    This is a coloured version of the premier Brit financial cartoons from the City – Alex (Alex Masterley, trader)
    There are buttons to push that will give you other strips which are all very educational about keeping your pecker up in the City where changes and downturns are always able to be turned to one’s advantage.

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