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*PREVIEW* Britainology 19: The City of London

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Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that the City of London, the small mini-enclave that dates back to Roman times, is a separate state entity that predates the United Kingdom by hundreds of years? And that its special status makes it basically immune to disclosure rules and financial oversight? Well, sort of. Riley steps in to explain The Land of the Weird Bollards and much more. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53771038 Please consider donating to charities helping Palestinian people here: https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/palestine-emergency-appeal/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3oja5NbR8AIVSOmyCh2LdQ9rEAAYAiAAEgKM9PD_BwE and here: https://www.grassrootsalquds.net/ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

If you wanted to know how the city of London, a political body that is a local authority,

0:05.9

spent its money on financial industry lobbying, say, this year, how would you go about that?

0:12.2

Computer hacking?

0:13.3

No, no, if you were a journalist.

0:15.1

What would you do?

0:16.0

Do a freedom of information request?

0:17.8

Sorry, it doesn't apply.

0:19.5

Ah, well, that's fun.

0:21.6

Even now, even right now in 2021,

0:23.8

if you attempted to do a freedom of information request on the city of London

0:26.6

outside the functions that performs as a local normal authority that is not allowed.

0:31.9

Ah.

0:32.5

Yeah.

0:32.8

So you can do it on the kind of like City of London Council that does bin collections and that sort of thing.

0:37.4

Yeah, yeah. Can't do it on...

0:38.3

I want freedom of information request

0:40.5

I want to see your procurement process

0:41.8

for I don't know

0:44.0

bin men

0:45.2

for outsourcing

0:46.8

Finding the hardest bin man

0:48.1

Tell me your procurer process

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