this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
20 points (95.5% liked)
Europe
8324 readers
1 users here now
News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe ๐ช๐บ
(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, ๐ฉ๐ช ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures
Rules
(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)
- Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
- No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
- No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.
Also check out [email protected]
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
City firms can all go to hell and burn for eternity. They made the 2008 Great Recession, they encouraged Cambridge Analytica, they enriched Russian oligarchs, they keep funding fossil fuels industries, their execs keep polluting to sky-high levels, flying private jets and sailing private yachts.
Fuck them.
Pays for a lot of hospitals and schools too.
Same schools that are crumbling down and hospitals with no nurses? Yeah, they pay some of it. But not too much, we wouldn't want sleazy millionaires to miss their next trip to the Bahamas or the Cote d'Azur
We'll that's due to the Tory austerity policy
Financial services is the UK's largest export and contributes about 9% to GDP.