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Saw someone elsewhere assert that Britain is “one of the least corrupt countries in the world”, and couldn’t let that go unchallenged, so here’s what I said:
Only because of this one weird loophole, which I will explain below:
For the last decade, the previous government has been awarding public contracts for infrastructure, etc, to what are essentially shell companies run by their mates. These companies then do the bare minimum for as long as possible, which if you drive round the UK, is why you see all those road “improvement” works which do nothing and take forever and never seem to have anyone working. It took two years to replace a roundabout with a set of traffic lights near my apartment, for example. Other examples: large amounts of “PPE equipment” during Covid which turned out to be useless junk.
Obviously they aren’t actually spending anything but a trivial amount going through the motions, so what happens to the rest of the money, which let’s remember, was raised by taxes.
Well, it gets donated back to the ruling party as “political donations”, and then if the pretend contractor does a good enough job of this, they get an knighthood, or even a seat in the House of Lords for “services rendered”.
Now you might think that this sounds corrupt, and you would be right. It sounds deeply corrupt, but apparently it’s not because a lot of the global agencies which work out corruption indices are based in, checks notes, London, and are probably in on the scam, and get to define what “corruption” means, and define it to mean, “not this”.
Et voila! You have a country with one of the biggest wealth gaps in Europe funnelling vast amounts of public money to populist spaffers in government, all legal, laundered and sanitised.
The whole of UK society is like this. It’s how it works, and once you see it you either join in, or walk away in disgust.
It's worth bearing in mind that London is often referred to as the laundromat of the world for dirty money.
It's also nicknamed Londongrad because of all the oligarchs hiding their stolen billions in luxury houses that sit empty.
People don't realise how corrupt the UK is because the British (let's be honest mainly English) know how to spin, minimise, evade & manipulate like no others. Even the British public has zero clue just how corrupt it is.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @goatsarah You may have noticed all the posh, English psychopaths who have been in power since forever.
Besides have you seen the inequality in this country?
@sentient_water @Captain_Jack_Sparrow @goatsarah
The British invented inequality. 
@partnumber2 @sentient_water @goatsarah
Did they really. So there was no inequality in civilisation, before the British "invented" it...
OK lol
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 @goatsarah You completely avoided what you said to me.
Great debating style. By the way I noticed your toots on the genocide going on in Palestine. Well looky who got that shit started.
"Gardner Thompson, a British historian, traces the arc of this seminal development in Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism And The Creation Of Israel, published by Saqi Books in London. A specialist in British colonial policy in Africa, he argues that the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine was precipitated by Zionist colonization and fostered by Britain."
Then there's India, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland & of course the indigenous people of America. The British have a reputation for genocide, exploitation & subjugation of billions of people throughout history.
But please tell us why you're their biggest fanboy?
@sentient_water @partnumber2 @goatsarah
Once again you are conflating the actions of the British establishment with the entire British people.
Please tell us where you are from, so I can blame you for the evils historically comitted by your successive governments.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @sentient_water @goatsarah
You can blame me for all the evils perpetrated by the English as apparently, according to my partner, I’m to blame for everything bad that’s ever happened in the history of history. 
@partnumber2 @sentient_water @goatsarah
OK. let's draw a line through this insane and pointless argument and agree that the English establishment have a lot to answer for, but they are not solely to blame for all the wrong in the world.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 @goatsarah You've been the ONLY person here generalising.
Stop trying to act like the rational, reasonable one now.
@sentient_water @partnumber2 @goatsarah
and you talking about "the British" as if it is one complete unit is not generalising?
Goodbye.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 @goatsarah Nope that's you. Refer to the first thing I posted. I explicitly excluded the Scottish & Welsh & majority of the English from my point.
But your thin skinned defensiveness suggests you're heavily invested in the English being seen as noble distributors of civilisation.
@sentient_water @partnumber2 @goatsarah
oh, please fuck off.
I am neither in denial or in defense of any of the many evils committed by the British empire, and have never said anything in their defense.
My only point is that not "all English" are in support of their establishment, nor should they be held in the same contempt.
Sorry if that is too difficult for you to comprehend.
@sentient_water @partnumber2 @goatsarah
goodbye, go and attempt to bully someone else.
or perhaps get a life.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 @goatsarah Rude, cruel & unprompted but yeah sure I'm the troll & the bully.