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One of the well-known jokes about all the James Bond books, is that if Bond were a real human being, and he really did consume as much alcohol as indicated in those stories... ...he would have to be a Freeman of London City.

One of the 'freedoms' of these folk, is that whilst within the perimeter of the City of London, they shall be 'bundled off into a taxi and conveyed home' if a policeman finds one of them drunk and incapable of driving or perhaps actually even walking responsibly anywhere.

There are a lot of aspects to 'the City of London' that are not spoken about virtually anywhere. No one - absolutely no one at all - is permitted into the City to bear arms against a Freeman, or prosecute them in any way, or do any kind of personal aggression against such an individual; and no one ever has. That is, not even UK soldiers, brigades, armies or any powerful group, ever have nor under present circumstances will they ever enter there to touch a single hair of any of the 'Freemen.'

And the only real way for that to be able to be continuously effected, is that there are mirror organisations - all of them highly secret - outside of the City who procure this situation, and ensure that it remains the way that it is.

The City of London runs things in the United Kingdom. 

Theresa May is a 'Freeman of the City of London.'

Christopher Steele worked inside of offices funded by Freeman of the City of London run through various charities.

The City of London is extremely powerful. But, alas, it is largely composed of drunkards and knaves now, who aspire to the heights of the old French Court of the Louis' and to European actual 'royalty' per se - and so they mimic a lot of the fashion statements of the (past) day that were aspects of that old world. At the same time, by force of practical experienced reality, and their money, they try to use and exploit modern technology to do whatever they want to do. When you see various 'names' of organizations that crop up in the newspapers these days concerning various scandals and the messy exploding of the underhanded things that were being undertaken... ...read 'Freeman of the City.'


ADDENDUM These characters love to be seen as just some quaint old jocular folkloric sort of merely local cultural phenomenon, mostly game fellows who are agreeable with doing silly dress-ups for the sake of American and Japanese and recently rich Chinese tourists. Don't fall for it. They are deeply sinister and wholly evil.