And it’s not just banks which are once again looking to buy into other parts of UK financial services and money washes away all sorts of murky deeds in the world of global finance. Do the Saudis see Phoenix and M&G as nothing more than sound investments? Or might the rationale be ‘you may not like us but you can’t do without us, and we’ll make sure that soon you really won’t be able to do without us’? It’s worked so far for China, who make everything and own a pretty big chunk of the world’s mineral rights; and many are finding having to hold their noses to get Russian gas and Ukrcomainian grain. I’m not one for conspiracy theories. But, makes you think, doesn’t it?
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?