UK's Double Standards - The Rich get Public Money - Poorer Folk Don't.

 The Bank of England's Rules for Protection of Savers.

 1989 - When a high-risk investment fund collapsed (see Barlow Clowes
 Scandal) at first the Bank of England said it couldn't help because
 the investment fund (for foolish rich people) was a `gamble'. That
 was true. 

 About a week later, when it became evident there were some really rich
 and influential `investors' in the Barlow-Clowes `fund', the Bank of
 England suddenly and inexplicably changed its mind, and paid all those
 rich people `reparation' from public funds - from money taken from us
 poorer tax-payers.


 2006 - When a "safe" no-interest Christmas Saving account (for poor
 people) proves to be an incompetent (or corrupt) scam (see Farepak
 Collapse) the Bank of England isn't interested at all - that's just
 poor people's money.

 That shouldn't happen in a `democracy' surely?

 Right.
 First - in UK the elected representatives MPs / congress are made rich,
 given millionaires incomes on taking office - see `MPs pay'.
 SO they are not motivated to represent the interests of ordinary folk
 - only the rich.

 Second - UK is _not_ a democracy. It has NO free nomination of candidates,
 NO free (secret) voting - due to marked voting papers, NO equal represention 
 - due to corrupt `party' system, NO accountability - due MPs arranging to be
 paid automatically rather than by the forebearance of their constituents.

 note: in the very first year of that corrupt arrangement an observer said it
 was immediately obvious that MPs started behaving irresponsibly and selfishly
 -  because now their constituents couldn't withhold their wages.

 (See `Diary of Samuel Pepys' - previously, if an MP mis-behaved, it was not
 unknown for his constituents to stop or reduce his pay.) 

 note2: only one type of person, regardless of the market, can decide his own
 income - a thief!  

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