NorthernStar Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 He sounds like he wants them to close and all those jobs to go! It sounded to me like he just wanted Mr. Green to pay his tax, nothing about closing his business, seems fair enough to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 One of the issues the protesters have helped to highlight is the status of the City of London Corporation. I'm very pleased they've done this, I didn't know about it before. What I have learned is that unlike other local councils in this country, the Corporation is predominantly elected by businesses. There are 25 electoral wards but residents can only vote in 4 of them. In the other 21 only business get a vote, proportionate to the number of employees, but they are not obliged to consult their employees about how they use their votes and most of their employees don't live in the City anyway. So it's a local council with it's own police force, elected by companies rather than people. That's wrong. What's worse is that the Corporation internally elects (no say in it for residents) someone to the office of the Remembrancer. According to the Corporation's own website In other words someone with daily access to parliament (he has a seat behind the Speaker) who acts as an internal lobbyist for the financial companies who put him there. Contrast that to the leaders and elected members of more democratically elected local councils who have no such access and influence. Notice that they talk about their 'rights' and not their interests. There's privilege for you. Vested interests working through an anti-democratic Old Boy's network based on a medieval guild system with daily access to policy makers. It's got to go. It is also what these companies represent. It is renowned as the biggest tax haven in the world, the head of a network that spans all over the old British Empire, which covers in secrecy tax avoidance and drug money. How it has been allowed to get away with it for so long, is an embarrassment to the British people and more over the taxpayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElasticMan Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Great article on the undemocratic, unaccountable City of London Corporation here http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corporation-london-city-medieval?newsfeed=true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 No, it's scandalous that anybody, whether in their right mind or not, should expect the Church to take sides on any sort of political issue Er, doesn't the CoE have guaranteed seats in Parliament? Yes it does. The whole point is that the Church always takes sides, it's their job. What would be scandalous is if the Church took the side of the money-lenders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 What would be scandalous is if the Church took the side of the money-lenders. St Pauls seemed to have a real problem deciding. It would be fascinating to see the minutes of the chapter meetings where they made their decisions about proceeding with getting an injunction. How did they vote? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabuckle Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 JOIN OCCUPY SHEFFIELD Next General Assembly 18:30 today. General Assemblies will be held everyday at midday and 18:30. Minutes or recordings of these meeting will be posted online for those unable to attend. http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8242848&posted=1#post8242848 FIRST EVER GLOBAL PROTEST :love: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickiethecat Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Well it's been two weeks now and still the world's banks have yet to be brought to their knees by this massive global protest. Why, in some countries as many as 0.00000001% of the population have been taking part in these protests! What are the banks waiting for, why haven't they seen the error of their ways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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