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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 experience devastating new research and
interviews with the major players Angus Hanton exposes why Britain has become the poor
transatlantic relation - and what we can do to change it.
