Unless you’ve led an Amish lifestlye and eschewed consumerism in all it’s forms for an indefinite period, then I fail to see how people can cast themselves as non culpable at least to an extent in this. Anyone whose had a job is reliant on the capitalist structure that is prevalent in the uk, which in turn has supported investment globally both inwards and outwards.
The vilification of a single person in this is ridiculous, a simple understanding of company finance and company law should lead you to the conclusion that for the majority of his tenure he was working, in conjunction with a huge number of other strategic decision makers to return money invested at the level which consumers, investors and pension funds expected. That’s us as consumers and pension investors.
That’s what has allowed this country to grow and have a period of unqualified optimism and consumer freedom. It was always going to be finite, but there were enough people who didn’t believe that which has contributed to the sudden decline we’re now in rather than a gradual slowdown. And now the armchair experts come out…