Our Moral Progress

Apparently there was a time when profit-making companies, even British profit-making companies, made profitable use of legal technicalities to circumvent the law. After Britain abolished slavery and British values paid compensation to the owners, the Empire's biggest shipping company continued using slave labour in the Caribbean, where the woke mind virus had yet to take hold. Even so, the private sector's characteristic efficiency ensured that the company failed to survive the financial crisis of the early nineteen-thirties, and despite some creative accounting by its noble chair it was taken over by the government. Such was the Communistic and un-British tenor of Ramsay MacDonald's Labour administration that the shareholders were not even compensated at the taxpayer's expense.