Just read George Monbiot’s recent blog, “Britain’s Mafia State”.  It definitely mirrors the concerns of our #PoliticiansRCriminals campaign. Monbiot, one of the world’s great political fact finders, asks “Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?”

He highlights some of the criminal aspects of our political system most convincingly. Just a few points:

  • “Social cleansing is transforming inner London into an exclusive economic zone for property speculation.”
  • There are no penalties for leaving buildings empty; the UK has become “a haven for the proceeds of international crime”. Financial secrecy provides “a conduit into the legal economy for gangsters, kleptocrats and drug barons.”
  • The political privilege of the financial sector is astonishing – the City of London is a “semi-offshore state” “the only jurisdiction in the UK not fully subject to the authority of Parliament.”
  • No link between political donations and seats in the House of Lords? Research by Oxford shows the probability of so many major donors “arriving there by chance” is “equivalent to entering the National Lottery and winning the jackpot 5 times in a row.”
  • Without public consent (or even knowledge of the details) the government is negotiating treaties like TTIP & CETA which are above both parliament and the law.

Clearly, ours is a government for profit – not people –  politician’s criminal behaviour obviously not a worry.

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  1. I can’t make out George Monbiot ever since I heard him speaking on Newsnight about Fukushima `not’ being as bad as everyone thought and not causing any deaths.He also belittled the Chernobyl catastrophy. I couldn’t believe my ears! He was very supportive of Nuclear Energy. The radiation he thought was nothing to be upset about is STILL leaking and has reached the west coast. Maybe he should read this website as it has all the awful news of the leak still being active. It also reports about what’shappening to the ocean:http://enenews.com/sickened-animals-anything-doctors-along-west-coast-theyre-eating-inside-cancers-liver-pancreas-intestines-basically-shut-down-infested-parasites-immune-antibiotics-unprecedented-catastrophe-p?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29

    Comment by Ingrid on 08/01/2016 at 7:02 pm