- Directors: Adam Curtis
- Region: All Regions
- Number of discs: 1
- Studio: BBC
- Run Time: 240 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: 1615779779
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,076 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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The Mayfair Set highlights the way money men took over the levers of power in recent decades. Two-party democracy becomes a corrupt sham. Politicians give lip service to "market forces" while they enrich themselves helping a clique of mercenaries and global speculators destroy the nation's economic base.
Part 1: Who Pays Wins. David Stirling founds the SAS mercenaries to hold onto Britain's empire by subversion. He then hits on a plan of "executive action" for business to run Britain, letting loose a tide of corruption. To save the military, Denis Healey OK's bribes to push a huge weapons sale to the Saudis. PM Harold Wilson is forced by global capital markets to retrench on promises to the working people.
Part 2: Entrepreneur Spelt SPIV. Accountant and game theorist Jim Slater invents asset-stripping, ripping apart companies and laying off workers to maximize profit. He and club pal James Goldsmith set about "restructuring" (destroying) British industry. "Tiny" Rowland makes a meteoric rise buying up companies in Africa on the cheap by bribing local rulers.
Part 3: Destroy the Technostructure. Goldsmith goes to New York to be a raider for junk bond king Michael Milken. When pension funds are obliged to buy his bonds, they tap into billions. Finally the politicians strike back. Boesky and Milken are jailed for fraud.
Part 4: Twilight of the Dogs. Goldsmith wants Harrod's, and gets revenge on buyer Mohammed Al Fayed, who loses his paid MP friends. The pension funds learn to downsize their own companies. Soros and Co. force the government to abandon sterling, and reap profits of half a billion.
Also appearing: Thatcher, Heath, Healey, Major, Blair, King Faisal, Dr. Banda, Nasser, Tony Benn, Reagan, Yamani, Giuliani, Robin Cook et al.
See also the description on Wikipedia.
Trailer: "Jerry Buildings"
VIDEO QUALITY ADVISORY: Adam Curtis films are available only in versions recorded from broadcast. Video quality will not be equal to a digital production DVD.
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This film gave me a lot of insights. It makes it clear how we got where we are now, with production jobs outsourced and our nation ocean-deep in debt to "bail out" the robber barons. The subtitle - business taking over the government - is a very discreet way of saying "corporatism" (which of course is just a euphemism away from "fascism.")
"Market forces" (financial speculators) have taken the power over countries away from politicians, and increasingly so with globalization.
The Mayfair Set casts lights on the disasters in our foreign policy as well.
Thinking about the Middle East revolts in this light, and seeing Soros' hand in them, don't expect any betterment for common people from toppling a national ruler.
It's long been known that it's a revolving door affair between the CIA and Wall Street. The instigation of the Arab revolts by "NGO's" has nothing to do with the real national policy interests of the USA.
It's foreign policy by and for a private sector of marketeers who want a worldwide level playing field for their hot money flows and unrestrained speculative wealth accumulation. It's all about them getting even more rich and powerful. They have the technique of manipulating democracies down pat, and don't want to argue with any dictators.
So a program of worldwide color revolutions starts to make sense for this clique. The Mayfair Set shows how that revolution was pushed through in the UK and the US - a revolution of rhetoric of freedom, but aimed against the people.
The Mayfair Set received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series in 2000.
"Market forces" (financial speculators) have taken the power over countries away from politicians, and increasingly so with globalization.
The Mayfair Set casts lights on the disasters in our foreign policy as well.
Thinking about the Middle East revolts in this light, and seeing Soros' hand in them, don't expect any betterment for common people from toppling a national ruler.
It's long been known that it's a revolving door affair between the CIA and Wall Street. The instigation of the Arab revolts by "NGO's" has nothing to do with the real national policy interests of the USA.
It's foreign policy by and for a private sector of marketeers who want a worldwide level playing field for their hot money flows and unrestrained speculative wealth accumulation. It's all about them getting even more rich and powerful. They have the technique of manipulating democracies down pat, and don't want to argue with any dictators.
So a program of worldwide color revolutions starts to make sense for this clique. The Mayfair Set shows how that revolution was pushed through in the UK and the US - a revolution of rhetoric of freedom, but aimed against the people.
The Mayfair Set received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series in 2000.
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