How America Runs Britain
REVEALED: Britain has become America’s vassal state! How the US has gobbled up brands from Weetabix to HP Sauce and raked in billions that could have stayed in the UK Britain is a vassal state, in hock to United States business, which owns us lock, …
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There is a bravura chapter in Hanton’s exploration of the UK’s supposed “special relationship” with America that outlines how US-owned companies or investments dominate the way most of us eat, work, shop or even talk to one another. It’s a fascinating counterpoint to the notion …
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The UK government tells a confident story about Britain’s tech business acumen. In one 2023 example, a press release from Rishi Sunak invited investment in the tech sector, calling the UK an ‘island of innovation’. In it, he explained that the UK corporation tax rate …
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We will be at Hexham Book Festival: LocationHexham Library, Queen’s Hall Art Centre, Beaumont Street, Hexham, NE46 3LS Time6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Date27 Apr 2024
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Book of the weekReviewed by Matthew Partridge During World War II, Britons grumbled (in the words of comedian Tommy Trinder) that the Americans were “overpaid, oversexed and over here”. The GIs responded that the British were “underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower”. Not much has changed …
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Freddy Gray speaks to Angus Hanton, entrepreneur and author of Vassal State: How America Runs Britain, and William Clouston, leader of the Social Democratic Party. They discuss the ‘Special Relationship’ between the US and the UK, and ask whether it might be detrimental to British …
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“Vassal State takes the reader on a dizzying tour of an economy”
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‘What would it really mean to ’take back control’ of the British economy? In this fascinating and provocative book, Angus Hanton argues that we need to understand the hold US corporations over the UK’s economic prospects – and decide what to do about it’
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‘A shocking and meticulous description of how today a majority of all the assets held by US corporations in Europe are in the UK; how recent British Prime Minsters and Chancellors have sold out their country; and what has to be done to avoid a …
Read More‘Read this and you’ll never again have a high street coffee, switch on your computer – do virtually anything – without pausing, anxiously, to think about the suffocating extent of American corporate domination of our lives’
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