Banker's Umbrella's election message: Be grateful you're not Finnish

Banker's Umbrella's election message: Be grateful you're not Finnish

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The quasi-mysterious Banker's Umbrella watched the UK elections unfold from a secret location in Europe (Zurich). He has a message for those unhappy with the result...

I grew up in the UK in the eighties at a time when politics were ever present. It was the height of the Cold War and the UK economy, under Thatcher, was being changed in a fundamental way. During that period, the political divide between the left and the right was palpable, even to a young kid such as myself. This was felt particularly strongly in my family as my father was a non-Brit working in politics. The atmosphere of the time was manifested in odd clicks on the telephone and our mail often arriving opened. The UK intelligence services were far from anything that watching a...

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