I am not alone in spotting some 'internal contradictions' in the government's approach to our financial affairs. Gordon Brown, our new, national bank manager, with the assistance of his chief cashier, Mr. Darling, has spent the last few months castigating the banks for their profligacy in lending money to anyone with a really and truly, cross my heart and wish to die, spiffing wheeze, or, a freehold on a chicken coop in Bootle, which has led them all to near disaster. Well, that's what they say on Mondays, on Tuesdays they insist it was nothing to do with the 'National Bank of Britannia' whose affairs under the stern eye of Mr. Brown's new, three-part regulatory authorities, was a model of financial rectitude. No, no, they say on Wednesdays, it was all the fault of those stupid Yanks and that dimwit in the White House - which should, by rights, be repainted in red to match the overdraft.
No, I don't understand it, either, but to add to the confusion, Mr. Brown and his glove-puppet muppet with the fake eyebrows are now (it's Sunday) insisting that the banks start re-lending and be quick about it, or else! A further contradiction lies in the fact that if the banks start lending again at the new government-inspired low rate of interest, they won't make any profits and we, the tax-payers, will never get our money back! Do these cretins have any idea about anything . . . ?
Take that as a 'no', shall I?
It may be that our masters want the banks to be in permanent hock to government?
Posted by: riddler | Monday, 10 November 2008 at 19:19
Spot on, 'Riddler', of course they do.
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 10 November 2008 at 19:35