
Originally Posted by
Mouroux
I hope people are not going to try and simplify what this man is by implying that 'oh right yeah he's horribly corrupt, but, um, he's Catholic so that explains it...' This is a Labour guy we're talking about here! I'm not saying that the (mainstream) right are any better or worse than the (mainstream) left, but what is patently obvious is that there is no difference between the two.
The article cited in the OP also makes reference to a complex network of financial dealings, transactions, arrangements... the banksters are rewarding him for a job well done, they set all this up for him!
When are more people going to get it (or even get around to wanting to get it): society is not being run by 'respectable' suit and tie ethicists, like the people are being watched over and protected by 'experts' of one sort or another, our 'daddies' who we can look to for explanations and protection from the big bad world.
The British people have always more or less accepted that this is how the world is run, there is a show democracy (Punch and Judy) and then there is the parallel government. Many people find it very difficult to articulate exactly what this parallel government is, or what it implies for freedom/equality, but the term 'establishment' carries meaning for a lot of us... the 'Anglo-american establishment' (cf. Carroll Quigley). These 'governors' only care about money and power (greed, selfishness, and self-promotion). They do not give a flying fvck (one way or the other) about equality, human rights, the polar bears, or anything. They play these issues, move them around the 'grand chessboard' (cf. Zbigniew Brzezinski), but a world that is carefully shaped and guided by elitists is only good for themselves, and to varying lesser degrees, for those who inhabit the hierarchy that comprises the 'establishment'.
So unless you are unusually talented and useful, willing to do anything to get ahead, and ideally have already gotten your hands on some really serious money (the kind of money that is accumulated over generations), you need to reconsider your world view. It really doesn't matter whether it's a religious or a scientific world view, from the left, right or center. All diversionary. No one wants to accept it, but the world is simply that corrupt.