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''Provocative and detailed ... Excellent'' The Telegraph
''Shocking and meticulous'' Danny Dorling
''An eye-opening revelation ... a must-read'' Joel Bakan
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 exp
