Ooffff!!
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I know people aren’t too keen on Gary but he does make a good stab of simplifying economics for a lot of people wondering why everything is fucked, divided and getting worse. At one point he was a big name in the city so his take is not something the public often gets to hear.
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I stuck with him for 7 or 8 minutes by which time he’d said, more than once, that politicians act the way they do, i.e. not in the interests of the common people, because the rich can pay them very much more than the common people (via ‘the state’) can.
It seems plausible that once politicians stop being politicians then they might become interested in what the rich can pay them (in return for insight and connections). But as long as the politicians want to carry on being politicians (and it’s only by staying in work that they retain their value, as was pointed out recently in the case of a few now-unemployed Tories) they need, in democracies, the common people to vote for them. Someone else’s money can, in some circumstances, help you to get people to vote for you. But it’s by no means the whole story. In the end if you ruin the economy or lose control of your borders or carelessly get the country into a bad war or make yourself unpopular in some other way then you risk losing the next election. And that will depend on how a lot of common people, not just a few very rich ones, vote.
That might count for something, but it certainly doesn’t count for everything. At one point Nick Leeson was quite a big name in the city. As was Sajid Javid (strictly speaking in several cities). Someone (probably more than one) in the city once thought that using collateralised debt obligations to refinance securities backed by US subprime mortgages was a clever move.
‘Following the money’ and the motivation (his position) suggests there would be fine oportunity for insider trading, back handers for keeping taxation down etc. Perhaps being PM simply is a carer stepping stone? I genuinely don’t believe the Tories are ‘in it for the people’ out of care, compassion and ‘team spirit’. They exist to protect a very small percentage. His argument re imigration as the patsy for inequality is fairly well formed.
I don’t know a single banker who was worse off for long or long term unemployed from the crash - We picked up that bill.
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Quite. It’s why I raise an eyebrow or two though when I’m encouraged to trust anyone who is or was a big name in the city. I fear they may not be telling me the whole truth and that in due course believing what they say might at best mislead me and at worst cost me money.
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Less of that kind of “talent” please.
I don’t always agree with George Monbiot but he’s got this pretty much spot on.
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He’s saying the same thing. Musk is fanning the flames to deflect from his greed. Good on him though x is a sewer of stinking thinking and manipulation.
His spiel is:
I don’t go with everything he has to say but it’s often more truthful than many of the mouth pieces out there.
For the avoidance of doubt this isn’t some out of context screen grab. Nazi cunt really did throw a Nazi salute.
How little they’ve learned.
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No fucking way ! Scumbag !
Oh I think they’ve learned very well indeed. 
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Trump will be more pissed off that he has nicked all the headlines
Fuck me, that escalated quickly.
Possibilities currently looking a bit like this:
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Such a cretin that he didn’t realise what he was doing.
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Nazi,
Maybe I missed one?
I actually think you over complicated the choice.
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