At the end of last week following days of collapsing banks and tax-payer funded handouts to scrounging spivs, it seemed like suddenly everyone was an anti-capitalist. There were protests in Wall Street, the City and here in Bristol against tax-funded bail-outs to the likes of Bradford and Bingley. Amid the political confusion even the Tories found themselves having to act angry at greed of the City fat-cats in order to keep up with public anger.
So how did our local rag and tribune of the people react to events? They ran another puff piece for Bristol’s fattest fat-cat Peter Hargreaves and his grubby stockbroking outfit Hargreaves Lansdown.
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