| Taming the Corporations |
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| Written by Paul Whitehouse |
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“Cleaning up politics is a necessary precondition for effective corporate governance reform and for subordinating the business agenda to broader social needs . . . "They buy places at Labour’s “high plate” party dinners, governmental advisory committees, task forces, and Think Tanks, and contributions to party funds facilitate titles, contracts and jobs for those who make them. In return, New Labour, like the Conservatives, defers to the donors. . . “Despite numerous audit failures, the ‘colonisation’ of senior civil servants, current and former ministers has enabled them to escape effective regulation and retribution. The colonised include Peter Mandelson . . . “Proposals made in this monograph are intended to ensure that corporations are brought under democratic control and the institutions of democracy are reinvigorated.” |