Posted: May 02, 2017 9:33 pm
Byron wrote:And must again appreciate the irony of a bunch of little Englanders worshiping the WTO, a supranational institution that can be every bit as intrusive as the EU, and, as global trade continues to harmonize, is set to become yet more so.
But of course, the same Little Englanders don't regard rich, white American corporate vampires in the same way they do the Smelly Brown Foreign PeopleTM in Europe. Despite the fact that said vampires are far more likely to shit on the Little Englanders in the name pf profit. Funny also how you never see them complain about those Russian oligarchs buying up large stretches of London property as part of Putin's money laundering plans. Or anonymous Chinese operators in the same market. Which might have much to do with the manner in which the "Wogs begin at Calais" part of the Tory Party has been diverting attention therefrom.
Indeed, EU rules on transparency in high finance, almost certainly constitute a large reason the current Tories wanted out. Because they didn't want their own Panama Papers embarrassments being made public. Cameron, prior to his bailing out and leaving the mess for someone else to clean up, in the typical manner of the entitlement-riddled rich, tried to water down EU tax avoidance rules before he pissed off to become more cosy with his offshore funds. Every measure the Tories have pushed to date has been aimed at keeping sleazy corporate dealings as secret as possible, not least because a good few Tory MPs have their own fingers in that particular pie. Everything from revolving door "non-executive directorships" as a quid pro quo for smoothing the path of avarice, through in some cases to protecting big Party donors from legal sanction, with a few underlings pushed under the bus to provide the illusion of "justice" being served, in exchange for fat rewards, has been slithering away like the various claymation creepies from The Trap Door just waiting to see the light of day.
Once the full extent of Tory corruption finally strikes home with the electorate, and said electorate wakes up to who's really been screwing them, I wouldn't want to be a banker or a share trader in the City when all that resentment reaches flash point. It'll make the end of the Ceaucescus look like tea with the vicar. Quite a few of the poor who have been shafted over the past decade, won't spare an atom of pity once the pursuit of revenge becomes relentless, and the consensus among said demographic will be that the rich are getting their just desserts once the long knives are unsheathed.