Corruption in the West
When I was young, some 50 years ago, I looked up to doctors, pharmaceutical companies, politicians, bankers, city businesspeople and the police. But things have changed dramatically over that half-century in the UK and the West in general. Corruption...
When I was young, some 50 years ago, I looked up to doctors, pharmaceutical companies, politicians, bankers, city businesspeople and the police. But things have changed dramatically over that half-century in the UK and the West in general.
Corruption within the establishment has become rife and is now endemic.
In relatively recent times the “cash for honours” and MPs’ expenses scandals in Parliament were just the tip of the iceberg of establishment scandals.
For we then learnt that the police were involved with the News Of The World exposé and that the Met was too accepting of News International’s defence that phone hacking was limited to a “rogue reporter”. We now know that this was derisory and possibly a cover-up.
Currently we have the bankers again through their deceit in manipulating the Libor, once again for their personal greed.
Unfortunately, with hard times ahead for western economies and poverty knocking on its door, it is inevitable that these cases of dishonesty will just be one of many enormous corruption scandals to emerge over the years. So this is not the end.
Indeed, the numbers will grow exponentially I am sure, and overall it appears that the establishment figures in the UK and the West have lost their moral values and with that, the declining respect of its people.
Unfortunately these are the things of revolution and therefore for their own good the establishment has to put its house in order. If not, it will be to blame for unparalleled and savage social change.