After the City Gang’s multibullion pound heist and the ongoing looting of public funds a diversion was necessary to focus public anger elsewhere. Enter John Wick, “head of a corporate intelligence company”, which just happens to have access to MPs expenses details. The ploy has worked a treat: not only is public anger diverted towards those MPs guilty of malfeasance but to the wider political class. Which of them now dare point the finger at the banksters? The public still lose everything but have the consolation of seeing a few people exposed for minor corruption.
But the oligarchs shouldn’t perhaps be too smug: they have created a political vacuum which may return to haunt them.
23rd May, 2009
A former SAS officer who passed secret details of MPs’ expenses claims to The Daily Telegraph broke cover last night to insist he had “no regrets” about the leak that has rocked Westminster.
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