Anyone who's cares enough to pay attention will have realised that the veil between government and business anymore has grown increasingly thin over the last few years, but this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/10/blairjpmorgan ... seems to be a whole new order of magnitude. Currently reading Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine", in light of which this is not only unsurprising, but makes a ugly kind of perfect sense.