(UK) Yes we are raging - against a Government that spies on its citizens....

[JohnyCanuck]

while ignoring the crimes of greedy bankers

By James Slack, Home Affairs Editor

SNIP

Thousands are losing their jobs through no fault of their own because bankers who made millions during the good times are calling in the loans which their employers need to stay afloat.

Homes are being repossessed across the country, but not the penthouse flats and country piles of bank bosses who thought nothing of taking home vast seven-figure bonuses, and consider £1 million a year a modest income.
Economic protests

Protesters expressed anger at being made to pay for the folly of those who caused the financial collapse

The innocent are being punished while the guilty continue to lead affluent lives.

As Ken Macdonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions says today: 'If you mug someone in the street and you are caught, the chances are that you will go to prison. In recent years, mugging someone out of their savings or their pension would probably earn you a yacht.'

Add to this a second issue highlighted by Sir Ken: the march of the surveillance state.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1152876/JAMES-SLACK-Yes-raging--Government-spies-citizens-ignoring-crimes-greedy-bankers.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. I am no fan of either greedy bankers or the surveillance state...

but this is from the Daily (Hate-Mail), which is far-right (though often RW-populist, as here) and mainly hates Labour, because, even in its diluted-beyond-all-recognition current form, is is still to the left of the Tories.

Both the encouragement of greedy bankers - with the accompanying downgrading of British industry - and the encroachments on civil liberties owe their primary impetus to Thatcher, even if Labour-in-name-only governments have shamefully continued the policies.