Deepening reform to curb vested interests

Plunderbund, what a great word, it brings to mind images of pirates swashbuckling their way ashore to take whatever they can - although that might be just me; too much popcorn escapism and a love of the sea.

The word does refer to scurrilous thieves, though, only the real deal rather than Disney's celluloid heroes, since the definition of plunderbund is a "league of commercial, political or financial interests that exploits the public".

Such leagues of thieves steal a lot, and do so to the same end and with the same wish as those who steal a little. And by handing out bounties and benefits to their accomplices and facilitators, their malign influence spreads as a cancer of complicity.