The creep of the market into almost all areas of public life has brought with it a steady and damaging growth in corruption. Both the media and the political class insist the UK is largely free of corruption, a claim that no longer stands up.
Transparency International (TI) has released its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2012, raising concerns over “recent scandals” in the United Kingdom, exposing “serious fault lines in the country’s system”. As a result, Transparency International Transparency ranks the UK at 17 among the 176 countries and territories in the index and warns that the UK is struggling to remain in the top 20.
See full Article: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/stuart-weir/transparency-international-raises-serious-concerns-about-corruption-in-uk
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