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Of Political Corruption. And Of Its Two Levels

R.F.Wilson writes: It’s official. Well, it’s sort of official. The level of political corruption in Britain has risen from ‘acceptable’ to ‘unacceptable’, with elected politicians losing their senses completely, having stopped doing anything worthwhile and allowing the government to bankrupt the country to a crisp. Not since the days of the former Soviet Union has the world seen such a small group of individuals causing such huge damage to a once great nation.

It was only recently that political corruption in Britain was still ranked as ‘acceptable’. Sure, there was a waste of public funds going on even then and an illegal costly war was waged in Iraq by a small clique at the top of the ruling regime and hundreds of members of parliament were milking their expenses system. But all that still fell under the term ‘acceptable corruption’, as it was possible to amend the situation and get the finances in some sort of order in the foreseeable future.

Not anymore. The country’s finances have been ripped apart by that mighty admirer of Karl Marx, Gordon Brown, and his band of merry men, who have achieved what all of Britain’s enemies in the past failed to do: bring the nation down to its knees, with little hope of recovering from the deadly blow. Even the Russian oligarchs, who had collectively stolen a lot of Russian taxpayers’ money, with the help of the then government, and moved it to the West in the 1990s, pale into insignificance with Brown&Co. The oligarchs could only master $1 trillion, an amount that is not even close to the grand sum that Britain is now faced with repaying. The latest figure puts the British debt at £2 trillion, with a clear upward trend attached to it.

The classical definition of acceptable corruption is based on the principle that people know that their elected representatives are bent, but do nothing about it, rightly thinking that it is just part of everyday life. They accept that politics cannot be clean, but at least can retain some element of respectability. In return politicians try to preserve the solvency of the state and not bankrupt it completely. And that was how things were working in Britain, until recently when it began to resemble Zimbabwe in all but the climate.

The Labour government decided a couple of years ago that the taxpayers’ money was actually there to be used as it sees fit, and in a matter of months all of it was blown on the grand project of saving the financial sector, a plan that can only fool the most naive as the money was simply divided between the bankers and their friends in the corridors of power. The alarm system should have signalled the nation that corruption reached unacceptable levels, but someone in the Bank of England switched it off, so as not to upset the public.

And now we have a situation when absurd things are happening every day, only to follow by more absurdities. Statistics are twisted on a daily basis, new money is printed like there is no tomorrow, real inflation is substituted by meaningless data, war in Afghanistan is waged as if the budget is overflowing with money and, best of all, a non-existent enemy in the form of climate change is targeted in the hope of squeezing the last remaining pennies from the budget to satisfy some nasty people.

Unacceptable corruption reigns supreme in Britain. Will anyone turn the alarm system on?

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