Over the past decade some GBP3 trillion
- equivalent to GBP50 000 for every person in Britain
- has been taken from us by the ruling elites. Half was wasted in a splurge of poorly-managed public spending in the boom while the other half evaporated in the bust
- siphoned off by city bonuses vaporised by a collapse in pension savings & extorted to bail out the banking sector. In their explosive new book David Craig & Matthew Elliott trace where the money has gone & who has become richer as a result. They name & shame the guilty: the incompetent bureaucrats that fail to deliver the services the taxpayer deserves; the multitude of ineffective regulators & watchdogs; the politicians that have betrayed our democracy & enriched themselves; & the self-serving & arrogant city bankers. Moreover they calculate the enormous debt that awaits the British taxpayer as a result of our rulers avarice & economic mismanagement. Fleeced!" charts the greatest impoverishment & tax swindle of the public in British history."