CITY OF LONDON; CORRUPTION

Brabantian 17 January 2020 at 14:39 writes:

From Sputnik News on the City of London as global centre of money laundering corruption -

"Nicholas Wilson, a financial services whistleblower who was fired by UK law firm, Weightmans, after exposing millions of pounds in unfair customer charges, claims the City of London relies on 'dirty money' and says the world economy would collapse if the City stopped laundering it.

Italian journalist Roberto Saviano, who has spent most of his career investigating the mafia, claimed Britain was the most corrupt country in the world.

Mr Wilson said: 'I would agree with that. He is talking about the City of London, the money laundering capital of the world ...

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Wilson said:

'Nothing can be done to clean up the City of London. 

'If any politician tried to dismantle the City of London the world economy would collapse. 

'Drugs money was the only thing that kept the banks going during the 2008 financial crisis.'



In 2016 the Home Affairs Select Committee claimed £100 billion in illicit money was being laundered in the London property market every year.

Mr Wilson, a former litigation manager, said: 'The EU wanted to tighten up on money laundering and the UK was the only country who voted against it.'



Last month the government announced Andrew Bailey, the current head of the Financial Conduct Authority – the regulator which oversees financial services and markets in the UK – would take over as Governor of the Bank of England in March.


Andrew Bailey

But Mr Wilson said in the last 12 months Mr Bailey had failed on several high-profile scandals including the collapse of mini-bond firm London Capital and Finance, the implosion of Woodford Investment Management and the gating of the M&G Property Portfolio over liquidity issues.

He said: “He has certainly failed over many years on his handling of the HSBC fraud I first reported to the FSA in 2012.”



Mr Wilson said the bank with the worst reputation was HSBC which he said was implicated in 18 of the 25 top corruption scandals listed by the watchdog Transparency International last year. 

Rona Fairhead, a former director of HSBC, was also chair of the BBC Trust and is currently a member of the House of Lords. She was a government minister until May last year."

https://sputniknews.com/business/202001161078000377-world-economy-would-collapse-if-city-of-london-stopped-laundering-money-says-hsbc-whistleblower/

https://nicholaswilson.com/

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GAY - WIND IN THE WILLOWS

Kenneth Grahame wrote Wind in the Willows.

The book critics hated Wind in the Willows, but Theodore Roosevelt loved it, and children loved it.

Kenneth Grahame: Lost in the wild wood - Telegraph. 

Wind in the Willows, 1908.

When Kenneth Grahame was five, his mother died of a fever.

Cookham.

Kenneth Graham's father, a 'failed lawyer' who had a drinking problem, gave Kenneth, and his siblings, to the grandmother, in Cookham Dean in Berkshire.

Kenneth Grahame. 

Kenneth Graham did well at his private school in Oxford, winning his First XV rugby colours and becoming head boy.

Kenneth Grahame went to work at the Bank of England in 1879, and rose through the ranks until retiring as its Secretary in 1908 [4] due to ill health.

Kenneth Grahame's retiral is linked to a shooting incident at the bank in 1903. 

Grahame was shot at three times by George Robinson, all shots missing. [5] 

Grahame had quarrelled with Walter Cunliffe, one of the bank's directors, who would later become Governor of the Bank of England.

Toad

It is believed that Cunliffe knew that Kenneth Graham was gay, and bullied him because of his sexuality.

Cunliffe, according to some academics, is Mr Toad in Wind in the Willows.

Wind in the Willows 'was Kenneth Grahame's gay manifesto' .

But, Mr Toad may have been based on Kenneth Graham's son 'Mouse'.

Kenneth Grahame: Lost in the wild wood - Telegraph.

On Grahame's retirement in 1908, the family returned to Cookham.

Mouse, who had 'a fragile, nervous disposition.' At the age of three and a half, Mouse played 'a game of lying in front of speeding cars.'

In 1899, at the age of 40, the 'gay' Kenneth Grahame married Elspeth Thomson.

They had one child, a boy named Alastair - whose nickname was "Mouse". 

Mouse was born blind in one eye and was troubled by health problems throughout his short life. 

Kenneth Graham became stuck in 'a loveless marriage with a hysterical hypochondriac.'

Alastair/Mouse became 'ill-disciplined'.

Kenneth Grahame: Lost in the wild wood - Telegraph.

Kenneth Grahamee turned the bedtime stories he told to Mouse into his 1908 masterpiece, Wind in the Willows.[7] 

The Golden Age 

Mouse/Alastair was bullied at Rugby School and transferred to Eton. There, too, he suffered 'because of his disastrously superior attitude.'

Alastair died on a railway track while a student at Oxford University, five days before his 20th birthday on 7 May 1920.[8] 

The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish 

Peter Hunt of Cardiff University says that Wind in the Willows is Grahame's 'gay manifesto'.

Professor Peter Hunt of Cardiff University says the adult themes are 'hiding in plain sight'.

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The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish 

The  professor says that there is reason to believe Grahame was gay.


Walford Graham Robertson

Kenneth Grahame, his wife and their son lived in Cookham Dean, Berkshire from 1906.

But, Kenneth Grahame spent much of his time during the week at his London home which he shared with Walford Graham Robertson.

Robertson, a theatre set designer was a close friend of the gay Oscar Wilde.


The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish 

Constance Smedley was a family friend who helped get The Wind in the Willows published.

She married the artist Maxwell Armfield, who was gay.

Professor Hunt says: 'It just strikes me that if you've got a woman who goes to see Kenneth Grahame and his wife and Kenneth is gay and she marries a gay man, then you can see some empathy going on.'

Professor Hunt says that Wind in the Willows is 'a story of maleness and male companionship'.

Grahame was 'awkward in the company of the opposite sex.'


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