Download or read book Captive State written by George Monbiot and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monbiot documents the end of representative government in Britain. The state is no longer the initiator of policy but an increasingly helpless bystander. As institutional corruption strikes at the heart of public life, in a contest between the desires of big business and the needs of the electorate, the electorate loses out every time.