Britain is Sleazier and More Corrupt, But the Pandemic is Only Partly to Blame - CounterPunch.org

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Members of the "Advisory Board" do not want more state intervention, but voters in Hartlepool and Sunderland do.
48% : What these super-rich donors reportedly have in common is that they are Thatcherite free marketeers, hostile to regulation and state intervention.
47% : In Britain racism tends to be half-concealed, as with the government's confused attack on taking the knee, but in the US it is now startlingly open, as shown by the Republican governor of Missouri this week pardoning the couple who pointed guns at a Black Lives Matter demonstration.
45% : Trump won the White House by promising to help de-industrialised America, but in practice he gave priority to the traditional Republican programme of tax reductions for the wealthy and deregulation for business.

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