"Successive UK govts have expected the City of London to revive the economy. This faith is misplaced."
"In 2024, ยฃ25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange
ยฃ92.1bn paid in dividends
ยฃ57.1bn paid in share buybacks."
"Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity."
"Yet no govt reforms."
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/08/our-state-has-become-a-guarantor-of-corporate-profits/
#CorporateCapture has a clean and tidy sound to it.
But it is filth and it stinks.
#AlbanesePM #WesternAustralia #Woodside #Chevron #RioTinto #BusinessAsUsual
From #PremSikka
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/07/taming-corporations-is-the-key-issue-of-our-times/
To appease corporations, people may raze mountains, divert rivers, clear forests, cover countryside in tarmac and shower subsidies upon them, but they have no loyalty to any place, people or product.
@TalktoBeverley @RichardJMurphy
Thanks.
I follow Richard already.
I'll follow #PremSikka now.
Once my fellow Australians have made sure we can criticise any country that is committing war crimes, I'll repost that "corporations" article.
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