Legal pillage repeating itself

A LOOK back through history and a quote from Robert Hutchinson’s excellent book Thomas Cromwell – The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister shows that nothing is new.

“Cromwell’s dissolution of the monasteries – his audacious legal pillage that remains the greatest single act of privatisation in the history of Britain’s governance – also abruptly ended their care for the poor and sick and the provision of education and spiritual comfort to thousands of pilgrims.

“An additional social by-product was the fashioning of a new affluent class of gentry through the redistribution of monastic wealth.”

Note the last sentence – very apt for the continuing pillage of Britain’s public industries.

Time to slay energy Goliaths

From: George Senior, West Cowick, Goole.

IT is blatantly obvious that the directors of all the large energy suppliers have inherited the genes of Shylock, especially 
when small-scale competitor 
Ovo Energy’s managing 
director Stephen Fitzpatrick 
can’t explain the price rises 
being imposed by the larger firms.

Because his company is now buying gas cheaper than in 2009 (Yorkshire Post, October 30).

This slaying of Goliath by David can’t come soon enough.

To be continued with the chief executives and others who suffer from this cancerous disease.