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TL;DR "The City of London" is an ancient city founded by the Romans who's been continuously governed by an embarrassingly complicated government that nearly put
by valarauca1 12y ago
TL;DR "The City of London" is an ancient city founded by the Romans who's been continuously governed by an embarrassingly complicated government that nearly puts the Catholic Church to shame, and is nearly as old. It to this day involves guilds.
The short version is that companies get the right to vote in this system. And do the high price properties are nearly the entire government.
This leads to an incredibly business friendly government.
- jbuzbee 12y agoOh yeah. See their recent abuses of perceived power to shut down web sites they (or their supporters) don't like: https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=city+of+london+police https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=city+of+london+police