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If a Bond villain wanted to choose a location for a meeting to take over the world, they’d probably choose Davos.

But the business leaders who attended already have.

They’ve been running the world to line their pockets and boost profits for shareholders for decades. May and Trump may think they’re running the show, but they ain’t.

The World Economic Forum isn’t Bond’s nemesis SPECTRE but, as the rich and powerful elite, ­maintaining world domination is top of the agenda.

The title for discussion was “creating a shared future in a fractured world”.

More than 2,500 attended, including 70 political leaders, powerful businesses, bankers, academics and a smattering of celebrities.

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Many are completely unaccountable yet played a huge part in producing a fractured global economy, where the richest one per cent own half the world’s wealth.

Thanks to them we’ve seen greater inequalities in wealth and power. And criminal mismanagement that led to the global financial collapse in 2008, which had to be bailed out by governments around the world.

They believe in the values of a “liberalised economy”, free trade and global economic growth. Undoubtedly such values and collective action helped the world, and particularly Europe, to rebuild after the Second World War.

But creating economic wealth for the few not the many has led to a widening gap between the richest and poorest nations, and the rise of political populism.

Take a look at Trump. Go on, force yourself.

Here’s a guy rejecting global solutions to global problems such as climate change, and wrapping himself in the Stars and Stripes. Trump has only been in office a year and is extending the wall between Mexico and America, and expelling American Mexicans, even children, born in America.

He is banning Muslims and ­Africans from certain countries entering the US – a country built on immigration – and classing them as potential terrorists.

He threatens a nuclear war with North Korea.

And his United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley frightens me more than him. She promises to ­withdraw foreign aid from ­countries that vote against America’s policies at the UN.

Theresa May shouldn’t be holding Trump’s hands. She should be wringing his bloody neck.

At least Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron have made clear their opposition to this kind of philosophy. But what about our “European” British Prime Minister? She has agreed to his divisive visit to Britain and says they stand “shoulder to shoulder” on the main issues.

She failed to get Trump to stop tariffs of 292 per cent being imposed on the plane-builder Bombardier, which threatened a thousand jobs in Northern Ireland.

It was unions including Unite and the GMB that successfully lobbied to get the tariff scrapped.

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell didn’t go to Davos to hold hands. He went to kick the elite up the backside.

McDonnell is right to say that, unless the elites fix the rigged economic system to help the billions living in inequality, there will be a “social avalanche”.

We need greater co-operation between countries, and a global effort to help the poor out of poverty, tackle climate change and make sure the elites multinational companies pay their damn taxes.

The elites in Davos may run the world for now. But it’s time people around the world fought together to take back control of the planet’s wealth, resources and future.