Treasure Island - Profit or Plunder?
A
brief history of the Rape of Great Britain
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"I see an Island ahead, that when I was young, they used to call
Great Britain". "We can easily plunder it because its modern inhabitants never
complain or protest, and most don't even bother to vote - so it'll be easy
pickings Jim m' boy!!" |
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The early
1970's saw a massive invasion of foreign companies to our shores.
Attracted by generous incentives and by a Government that was trying
desperately to stem the rising tide of unemployment, together with a poor
balance of payments, large foreign corporations took up residence that had
previously been denied to them.
The
government was probably unaware that many of these foreign companies had
already secured a foothold in the UK many years before, as early as 1950 - and
that they had been working under a secret agenda buying up millions of shares
in UK companies, waiting for the day to penetrate one of the most lucrative
markets outside of North America and continental Europe.
| The Government is spending
£12,000 of taxpayers' money every second (slightly more than what BT
earns a minute) |
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In the
boardrooms (often controlled by British-expatiates and Commonwealth
conglomerates!) these overseas companies saw Great Britain as a goldmine.
They secretly called the UK "The Goldcoast" and
"Treasure Island" - and rightly so. With a population of over 50
million filled with naive British consumers who had money to spend after a
rather successful decade in the 60's, and with rising house prices, the cash
registers started plundering the population. And plunder they surely did.
Not content to make a reasonable profit, these companies had (and still
do) a field day. By paying low wages, in a regime that did not have a minimum
wage or strict labour laws, to a rather generally unskilled naive workforce,
and charging excessive prices for their goods, often in a cartel created by
their greed, to a populace who rarely complained, their profits began to
balloon.
Thanks to Government policies, such as the Resale Prices Act
of 1956 and 1964 which strangely allowed companies, both foreign and domestic,
to lawfully withhold supplies to retailers who wanted to sell their products at
below the 'recommended' retail price in order to attract customers, the mother
of all Rip-Off's was born.
Fueled by inflation, decimalisation,
government tax incentives and finally by EC grants in the mid-1970's the rape
of Britain was in full swing. Their shareholders saw their stock rise as
literally billions of Pounds flowed out of the UK into foreign
coffers.....and still does !!
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Average Family car
in UK- £12,000 |
Average Family car in Holland -
£9,000 |
| To fill an Average family car with petrol in the UK
costs £50 or $80 |
To fill the same car with petrol in the USA costs
£15.07 or $24.11 |
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Pack of 20
cigarettes in the UK - £4.20 |
Pack of 20 cigarettes in Spain -
£1.60 |
| Pint of beer in pub in UK- £1.90
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Pint of beer in pub in spain -
£0.80p |
| Six pack of beer in UK -
£4.20 |
Six pack of beer in Germany -
£2.40 |
| TV licence in UK - £104 |
TV licence in USA - $0 |
| 30 minute local phone call in UK -
£0.40p |
30 minute local phone call in USA - $0
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Watch this
space as the story unfolds......Why do you think London is the Stock Market
capital of the World ? Why do 10% of the British population hold 51% + of the
wealth in the UK? How Government policy restricts lower prices in order to
collect billions in VAT & stealth taxes...
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