Is the British government corrupt?
I don’t think the British government is particularly corrupt. It’s quite an open system. We’ve got a media who are interested in exposing any weaknesses in the system, and they consistently do. Sure, the occasional dodgy thing happens, but it’s rarely totally covered up. The selling of gold is no conspiracy. When you sell commodities, you don’t tend to sell them at a high, you tend to sell them when a price is falling, so as to prevent further losses, and then you buy when prices are rising. That’s what Gordon did – he tried to sell to prevent a further loss. The fact that they then rose again wasn’t his fault – he’s not psychic – if he knew the prices would rise again like that then he wouldn’t have. It’s certainly not incompetence etc. and he didn’t make personal gain from it. Politicians aren’t making huge financial gains like they are in the rest of Europe (and the world). I know there has been an expenses scandal of sorts, but it really isn’t that big a scandal – only that the sys
