British Parliament Now Wholly Owned Subsidiary Of Big Business

Posted on February 13, 2008
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When Britain was re-named UK Plc under Margaret Thatcher, it sounded like a catchy, if empty slogan. It was just part of the zeitgeist, where everyone was a thrusting go-getter in the dog-eat-dog commercial jungle. In Thatcher’s brave new world, everyone was going to be rich. Apart, of course, from the legions of poor on whom the rich always depend: or, more accurately, on whom they stand after they have trampled them underfoot.

Now, in New Labour’s New Britain, this selling of a nation as a commercial enterprise has actually come to pass. Britain no longer has an independent legislature, but is governed entirely by the diktats of big business.

If Mrs Thatcher was accused of selling the family silver in her mania to sell public assets and utilities on the cheap to businesses on the make, New Labour can trump her in that they have sold the nation down the river because a handful of businessmen barked orders at them and they responded by asking “How high do you want us to jump?”

Everyone knows that the Tory party is just the political wing of business, so from them it is expected. However, not only did New Labour readily jump into bed with big business like the local bike on a drunken night out, it was happy to sell its children and family into prostitution and slavery without actually bothering to ask for payment.

To a degree, it is not that we ever imagined or pretended that business was not pulling the strings of the puppets in Parliament, it is just the clumsy ineptitude of New Labour in making it all so publicly humiliating and so financially incompetent.

Under Blair, they had to receive the blessing of business in order to be electable, but business did not just sprinkle a few drops of water on the figurative forehead of the nation’s government, it gave them a thorough waterboarding. Both Blair and Brown are so in thrall to what they see as the inexplicable mysteries and wonderments of business, the magical enchantment of how business can make money appear as if from nowhere and the trembling craving that maybe, just maybe, some of that could find its way into the pockets of the nation’s administrators, that they have allowed legislation to become entirely subordinate to the whims, quirks and tantrums of a few business leaders.

Alistair Darling, the Chancellor and by default Gordon Brown’s puppet at the Treasury when he is not passing him around the unelected chairmen of New Britain Plc, had thought that taxing people who are not domiciled in the UK for tax purposes, but are making fortunes off the back of the country and its infrastructure and workforce was a modest and reasonable proposal.

The problem was that in Gordon Brown’s ‘government of none of the talents’ there had been an appointment made in the shape of Digby Jones as Minister of State at the newly created Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Lord Jones obviously saw it as his role to prevent a mere Chancellor from proposing legislation which he felt might not be agreeable to his mates in business.

Darling of the Treasury had to succumb, climb off his ridiculous hobby-horse that the rich should sometimes pay a miniscule amount of tax, humble himself with a grovelling apology and publicly agree that New Britain, from the pinnacle of government to the lowliest babe in arms, are all mere bondsmen to the unelected cabal of international business.

New Britain is now a small cog in the globalisation machine, which business can pull out and replace at any time with a country whose government is more supine and spineless if any lickspittle politician ever dares to stand up and make threats that business cannot keep every last penny of everything it extorts from the slave force of New Britain or anywhere else.

In The Guardian:

Opposition MPs accused the government of muddle and harming Britain’s reputation in the international business community. Business leaders said the government needed to be more careful in future before rushing through “ill thought out” legislation. It called the move a “victory for common sense”.

That is not even code for: “Never try to do anything which business does not like”. That is a master telling a servant to behave or be dismissed.

Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrats’ treasury spokesman, said: “The government has made an unholy mess of this issue and is being made to look thoroughly foolish, now it has been demonstrated that ministers haven’t thought through the implications of their own policies.

“However, there has been some outrageous special pleading from the City with wildly exaggerated accounts of the damage that would be done by taxing non-domiciled residents. British taxpayers do not understand why they should pay 40% top rate tax, while the super-rich may pay little more than council tax on houses worth tens of millions.”

Expect more maltreatment of ordinary people by this government, now that its powerlessness has been publicly revealed.

Expect, as usual on the economic front, the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer.

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