Holston, your posts just keep getting funnier - I am no fan of the 'Tea Party', but I think calling them 'imposters' is really very silly indeed.
And I've no idea what you're babbling about with London: you seem to have mistaken someone here for a Brit, but no I'm from NEW England......
No. The Tea Party has been co-opted by the imposters.
City of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The City of London is a district of London.
The City holds city status in its own right, and is also a separate ceremonial county.
It is often referred to as the City (often written on maps as "City") or the Square Mile, as it is just over one square mile (1.12 sq mi/2.90 km2)[3] in area. These terms are also often used as metonyms for the United Kingdom's
financial services industry, which continues a notable history of being based in the City.
Metonymy (pron.: /mɨˈtɒnɨmi/ mi-TONN-ə-mee)[1] is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
The local authority for the City, the
City of London Corporation, is unique in the United Kingdom, and has some unusual responsibilities for a local authority in Britain, such as being the police authority for the City. It also has responsibilities and ownerships beyond the City's boundaries. The
Corporation is headed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London,
an office separate from (and much older than) the Mayor of London.
The City is today a major business and financial centre, ranking as
the leading centre of global finance. Throughout the 19th century, the City served as the
world's primary business centre, and continues to be a major meeting point for businesses to this day. London came top in the Worldwide Centres of Commerce Index, published in 2008. The insurance industry is focused around the eastern side of the City.
The City of London has
a unique political status, a legacy of its uninterrupted integrity
as a corporate city since the Anglo-Saxon period and its singular relationship with the Crown. Historically
its system of government was not unusual, but it was not reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835 and little changed by later reforms.
The
City has its own independent police force, the City of London Police - the Common Council (the main body of the Corporation) is the police authority.
The City
vies with New York City as the financial capital of the world; many banking and insurance institutions have their headquarters there. The London Stock Exchange (shares and bonds), Lloyd's of London (insurance) and the Bank of England are all based in the City.
Over 500 banks have offices in the City, and the City is an established leader in
trading in Eurobonds, foreign exchange, energy futures and global insurance. The Alternative Investment Market, a market for trades in equities of smaller firms, is a recent development. In 2009, the City of London accounted for 2.4% of UK GDP.
London is the world's greatest foreign exchange market, with much of the trade conducted in the City of London. Of the $3.98 trillion daily global turnover, as measured in 2009, trading in London accounted for around $1.85 trillion, or 46.7% of the total.
Many major global companies have their headquarters in the City, including Aviva, BT Group, Lloyds Banking Group, Old Mutual,Prudential, Standard Chartered, and Unilever.
A number of the world's largest law firms are headquartered in the City, including Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, DLA Piper, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, Eversheds and Slaughter and May.