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  • How America Runs Britain
  • By: Angus Hanton
  • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
  • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary

British politicians love to vaunt the benefits of the UK's supposed 'special relationship' with the US. But are we really America's economic partner - or its colony?

Vassal State lays bare the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain's economy: how American business chiefs decide what we're paid, what we buy, and how we buy it. US companies have carved up Britain between them, siphoning off enormous profits, buying up our most lucrative firms and assets, and extracting huge rents from UK PLC - all while paying little or no tax. Meanwhile, policymakers, from Whitehall mandarins to NHS chiefs, shape their decisions to suit the whims of our American corporate overlords.

Based on his 40 years of business experience, devastating new research, and interviews with the major players, Angus Hanton exposes why Britain has become the poor transatlantic relation - and what we can do to change it.

©2024 Angus Hanton (P)2024 Swift Press Audio

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An interesting book looking at how one country can have influence over another.

I think the author illustrates clearly what money and power can achieve. I assume historically this is nothing new, but is now affecting Britain. I am not sure if this country will become a state of America or/and a playground for the rich? Time will tell!

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