The BBC are reporting they have revealed a shocking truth about the disgraceful Royal. Some of the money which he got when he sold his little house might have come from a corrupt source. The truth is much simpler.
When the Queen’s favourite son (you know, the one who likes hob-knobbing with a convicted paedophile ) married Sarah Ferguson, he was given a cosy little multi-million pound mansion by his mum. Then when his sweet little old granny kicked the bucket, he moved into her gaff and put his own little place up for sale.
Asking price? £12 million. But there were no takers. Probably because it was overpriced.
Yet, a few years later, a billionaire businessman from Kazakhstan took it off his hands for a mere £15 million. According to the BBC, probably close to double its market value.
For the BBC, the scandal is Andrew’s Kazak buddy. Timur Kolabayev is the son-in-law of the dictatorial ruler of Kazakhstan. And he got to be a billionaire oligarch in the same way they all did — by cashing in on the corrupt sell-off of national assets for a fraction of their real value. Kolabayev’s corruption is not so much his association with a company being investigated for bribery, as his involvement of the rip-off of Kazakhstan;s wealth for private profit.
Back in the UK, the corruption at the hear of British society, has been obvious for decades. It is not the inflated price Andrew received a mansion that cost him nothing to acquire. We don’t need the BBC to investigate what mutual back-scratching was involved in that deal. The corruption that lies at the heart io British capitalist society is the obscene level of unearned wealth floating around the aristocracy and the finance capitalists of the City of London.
The BBC’s ‘revelation’ shines the spotlight somwhere the BBC chooses not to go. It exposes, once again, the chasm that separates working people from the ruling class. And it serves to remind us we have our own oligarchy here in Britain.