Fun Online Polls: Bank of England and supermarkets

On a high turnout (thanks to everybody who took part), last week's Fun Online Poll results were as follows:

Is the Bank of England owned and controlled by the UK Government?
No - 51%
Yes - 42%
Other, please specify - 7%

It's a conspiracy, maaaan! Some of the comments were things like "It's run with startling efficiency by and for a strata of self-serving, cretinous, ####wits", and I agree that the BoE is run largely for the benefit of the banks; but let's not forget that the UK government itself is in thrall to the bankers, which is why UK politicians are desperate to pursue Home-Owner-Ist policies, i.e. keeping house prices as high as possible, which enables banks to lend three times as much money on the same tired old houses, and thus make three times as much profit.

But, for the benefit of the nay-sayers, the Bank Of England is in fact part and parcel of the UK government (if you look at the legal position and the fact that the BoE dutifully pays any profits it makes to HM Treasury and so on); they are one and the same thing - the fact that the whole system is geared up to pandering to the Home-Owner-Ist alliance and not the interests of the wider population suggests to me that one is in control of the other.

And it's not some 'shadowy élite' we are talking about: the Home-Owner-Ist élite do this quite openly - paying themselves billions of pounds a year in bonuses without shame; MPs gaily flipping their 'second homes' for a nice tax-free profits; ex-Prime Ministers merrily accepting £500,000 a year jobs with merchant banks; whole countries (like Ireland) being held to ransom in order to repay wealthy international bond holders etc etc. We know exactly who they are.
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Just for a bit of light relief, this week's Fun Online Poll is "Which is your favourite supermarket?"

Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar. You can vote for more than one if you want. If you wondering why I chose those ten (and not Lidl, Netto, Budgens) is because I chose the top ten supermarkets by market share according to this source.