Vassal State lays bare the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain’s economy: how American business executives decide what we’re paid, what we buy and how we buy it. In this polemic, Hanton says that US companies have carved up Britain between them, siphoning off enormous profits, buying up our most lucrative firms and assets, and extracting huge rents from UK PLC – all while paying little or no tax. Meanwhile, policymakers, from Whitehall mandarins to NHS chiefs, shape their decisions to suit the whims of our American corporate overlords.
Based on his 40 years of business experience, devastating new research and interviews with the major players, Hanton exposes why Britain has become the poor transatlantic relation – and what we can do to change it.