Malcolm Wilson

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they’re like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

– Malcolm Wilson

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.