The Lie Factory
Introduction
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The Lie Factory
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 23 May 2010
This is the Bank of England printing works run by De La Rue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Rue . Every day this factory prints millions of lies, worthless pieces of paper that say “I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of....” In the U.K this has been a BARE FACED LIE since 1931. Any of us in possession of significant numbers of these valuless promises (nowadays probably in electronic form) should live in fear of the day when some innocent says “The Queen has no clothes on” panic will then set in and the whole capitalist enterprise should collapse as it nearly did in 2008. In the mean time if we all continue to collude in the pantomime bank notes will remain worth working for. I for one profess to seeing robes of great finery!
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Image Location
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