WWYT?
The campaign is gaining momentum, numbers are swelling, soon
the groundswell of opinion will reach levels that can no longer be ignored.
Obviously, none of that’s actually true.
Actually, I’ve only just come up with the snappy: Why Waste
Your Time? (Pronounced double-you wit) name. It’s along the lines of “Don’t
vote, it only encourages ‘em”. If you want to join up, send me an email or a
tweet, and some money, and I’ll organise a t-shirt or club handbook or
something.
Why Waste Your Time voting for any of this lot?
We’re now back in feudal times, run by the wealthy for the
wealthy. The cabinet is made up of millionaires.
George Osborne used the deaths of children to make political
and populist mileage. Ed Balls was outraged. Just in case you want to dislike
and distrust them both a smidge more, Balls was done for speeding and Osborne’s
Chelsea tractor
was pictured occupying a disabled parking bay. Maybe he’s sufficiently detached
from reality to claim that as a disability? The shadow business secretary,
illustrating the degree of snobbery and trickle-down distain our MPs have for
us, described the capital’s nightclubs as being “full of trash”. Yeah. Old
trash like you who should be elsewhere.
Continuing the just in case you want to dislike and distrust
them a bit more, 643 bankers, who earn £1,000,000 or more a year, will be an
average of £54,000 a year better off after their tax cut, a combined total tax
loss of £35m. This includes bankers at taxpayer-owned RBS and Lloyds. There’s
ninety three of them at RBS on over a million a year, each. So. There we go.
Our government is properly hammering their mates that got the world into this
mess. Or not. Probably not.
Before we go rushing over to the other side, what was
Labour’s approach to the bankers, pre-crash?
In 2005, according to Gordon Brown, they were blessed with
“unique, innovative skills”, “courage and steadfastness” and they made an
“outstanding, invaluable contribution to the prosperity of Britain ”. Then
in 2007: “a new world order has been created” by the “high value-added,
talent-driven” banking industry. He praised their vigour, their aspiration and
their ingenuity. These turned out to be their vile carelessness, their amazing
greed and their incompetence. There was bit of a global crash in 2008, calling
those statements of Brown’s in question.
Cameron? What would you expect? Even as Brown was
self-praising his light touch low regulation, Cameron was whining on about how
that was too much regulation, about the absolute victory of capitalism, and
said that “The world economy [is now] more stable than for a generation.” What
happened next?
Brown never, ever, shouldered any blame. The parties point
to each other, and neither has done anything to improve the situation while in
power.
The three heads of HBOS:
“Sir” James Crosby
Andy Hornby
“Lord” Stevenson
Have been criticised to the point that the report says the
bank was knackered even without global crisis coming along. They retain their
freedom, their millions, and their titles. Greed and incompetence are not
criminal offences.
Vote? Sorry guys. I’ve got an urgent overdue library book to
return.
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