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|title=Britain for Sale

|author=Alex Brummer

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781847940759

|pages=262

|publisher=Random House Business

|date=April 2012

|summary=A very good look at how the country is being bought by foreign interests with only profit in mind. Well worth purchasing - and locally sourced, too.

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Buy British, we're constantly told, and many people do - the French, the Germans, Qataris, Chinese... If you want to buy British you'd be hard pressed to use a British electricity company, the people shifting North Sea oil to you might be foreign, the trains near you may be foreign-operated, and so much of what's in the shops you buy from would of coursed be sourced from abroad, and shipped through foreign-owned ports. Whether or not the country is going to hell in a handcart, it's moving in piecemeal stages to exterior business interests, and the British citizen gets the worst of the deal.

For more on the credit crunch, there's [[Reckless: The Rise and Fall of the City by Philip Augar]]. [[Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot]] shows us that whether it's from abroad or not, EVERYTHING in these shores is being bought from under us.

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