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Letter to: Roger Hickman. Mole and Haggis Bookshop. Great Torrington. North Devon.

28th August, 2006.

Dear Mr Hickman.

Protests do have some use, but against a giant like Tesco, protests make little difference. What Tesco does not like is adverse publicity and if you were to expose financial corruption, as the driving force of Tesco's threat to Great Torrington, Tesco would back off.

We can work out what that corruption is and threaten to expose it.

Tesco has a global agenda, known, understood and admitted. We are familiar with the concept of market share and with competition for market share between retail giants. We may assume this competition is merely good business and that it is for the benefit of the consumer in its aim to reduce prices.

But we ignore the fact, that when market share exceeds a certain critical level, the need to reduce prices is no longer there. “Every little helps” no longer operates.

There comes a day when future profits for Tesco, will come from raising its prices.

Behind the scenes another scenario is in operation.

Bankers make their enormous profits by issuing new money as credit.

New money means new money. New money did not exist until it was issued and money is now issued as credit by private banks. They have a monopoly. The Government no longer mints or prints the currency. The Press are owned by the banks and are not permitted to mention that new money is only issued by private banks. New money is issued as credit.

What we need to observe, is the fact that Tesco has been buying up sites for their new stores in order to prevent their competitors competing. Tesco is doing this on a global basis, which involves having a limitless source of credit.

Bankers love Tesco so much, because Tesco uses so much credit.

Getting credit accepted as a loan of money is so profitable to the banks that it would pay the banks to actually pay Tesco, to ask for more and more credit.

The instant it dawns on you, that the financial scene in Britain is dishonest and high finance is corrupt, you will begin to see why protests are ignored. But the risk of stinking fish getting into the nostrils of the voters can make the Devil himself cringe.

I have given you a weapon to use, to keep Tesco away from Great Torrington. You may be too much of a gentleman to use this intelligence to fight your battle. So be it.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB