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New Labour's 'business friendly' policies are nothing short of a capitulation to the bug corporations says Monbiot in this trenchantly argued new book. The corporations are now taking over control of public assets on an unprecedented scale through such schemes as the PFI (Private Finance Initiative) while the provision of roads, prisons and hospitals is now deliberatley tailored to meet corporate demands, not public need. The rebranding of our national emblems goes on remorselessly as business logos appear on everything from street signs to the saddles used by the City of London mounted police. Planning pemissions are now routinely brought and sold, he claims; air-traffic control systems used threatened with privatization and Tony Blair boasts of Britain as having 'the most lightly regulated labour market of any in the developed world'. Never mind the cost in terms of falling health, safety, environment and labour protection standards. The obvious riposte to all this is to say that globalization and the new freedom it gives to corporations to relocate or move money around at will means that governments everywhere have lost for ever their power to control big business. Yet books like this one are necessary to mobilize political support for where the real battles now need to be fought - in the world Trade Organization where the future shape of the world economy and the lives of ordinary people at the most everyday level are at stake as never before. (Kirkus UK) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A devastating indictment of the corruption at the heart of the British State by one of our most popular media figures. George Monbiot made his name exposing the corruption of foreign governments: now he turns his keen eye on Britain. In the most explosive book on British politics of the new decade, Monbiot uncovers what many have suspected but few have been able to prove: that corporations have become so powerful they now threaten the foundations of democratic government. Many of the stories George Monbiot recounts have never been told before, and they could scarcely be more embarrassing to a government that claims to act on behalf of all of us. Some are - or should be - resigning matters. Effectively, the British government has collaborated in its own redundancy, by ceding power to international bodies controlled by corporations. Captive State highlights the long term threat to our society and ultimately shows us ways in which we can hope to withstand the might of big business.
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New Labour's 'business friendly' policies are nothing short of a capitulation to the bug corporations says Monbiot in this trenchantly argued new book. The corporations are now taking over control of public assets on an unprecedented scale through such schemes as the PFI (Private Finance Initiative) while the provision of roads, prisons and hospitals is now deliberatley tailored to meet corporate demands, not public need. The rebranding of our national emblems goes on remorselessly as business logos appear on everything from street signs to the saddles used by the City of London mounted police. Planning pemissions are now routinely brought and sold, he claims; air-traffic control systems used threatened with privatization and Tony Blair boasts of Britain as having 'the most lightly regulated labour market of any in the developed world'. Never mind the cost in terms of falling health, safety, environment and labour protection standards. The obvious riposte to all this is to say that globalization and the new freedom it gives to corporations to relocate or move money around at will means that governments everywhere have lost for ever their power to control big business. Yet books like this one are necessary to mobilize political support for where the real battles now need to be fought - in the world Trade Organization where the future shape of the world economy and the lives of ordinary people at the most everyday level are at stake as never before. (Kirkus UK) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A devastating indictment of the corruption at the heart of the British State by one of our most popular media figures. George Monbiot made his name exposing the corruption of foreign governments: now he turns his keen eye on Britain. In the most explosive book on British politics of the new decade, Monbiot uncovers what many have suspected but few have been able to prove: that corporations have become so powerful they now threaten the foundations of democratic government. Many of the stories George Monbiot recounts have never been told before, and they could scarcely be more embarrassing to a government that claims to act on behalf of all of us. Some are - or should be - resigning matters. Effectively, the British government has collaborated in its own redundancy, by ceding power to international bodies controlled by corporations. Captive State highlights the long term threat to our society and ultimately shows us ways in which we can hope to withstand the might of big business.
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