{"id":6947,"date":"2010-05-26T06:49:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T04:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/26\/bankers-complete-capture-of-uk-treasury\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T06:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T04:49:12","slug":"bankers-complete-capture-of-uk-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/26\/bankers-complete-capture-of-uk-treasury\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankers complete capture of UK Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ann Pettifor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debtonation.org\/2010\/05\/update-bankers-complete-capture-of-uk-treasury-attack-cable\/\" target=\"_blank\">has noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/sir-james-sassoon-set-to-be-lord-of-the-city-tele-a00b91709e06.html?x=0\">Sir James Sassoon<\/a> has joined the Bullingdon boy, Osborne, and the Barclays banker, David Laws, at the Treasury, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk\/profile_comsec.htm\">Commercial Secretary<\/a> \u2014 a post invented and designed for him.&#160; Sir James was vice chairman Investment Banking at UBS Warburg between<em>1985-2002, <\/em>where he specialised in privatisations. <\/p>\n<p><em>The capture of the Treasury by the City of London is now complete.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The war on industry and the public sector can now begin in earnest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And I fear that is exactly what is planned. <\/p>\n<p>Note: it&rsquo;s not an attack on one, it will be an attack ion both.<\/p>\n<p>Those, like the CBI calling for cuts are like the self-harmer, unaware that their current fix will ultimately lead to their destruction.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they wake up before it is too late. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ann Pettifor has noted: So Sir James Sassoon has joined the Bullingdon boy, Osborne, and the Barclays banker, David Laws, at the Treasury, as<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/26\/bankers-complete-capture-of-uk-treasury\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}