See, Jezza, it takes a Tory to show you Marxists how to really splurge the nation's 'dosh'! By Jove, that Rishi Sunak 'wallah' knows how to 'splash the cash' judging by his first budget yesterday. Is it a wise budget in the current 'circs'? I haven't a clue. Mind you, I rarely have a clue about anything but, as you may have noticed, that rarely stops me from voicing an opinion!
Mind you, he has a lovely smile, doesn't he?
My instant re-action to his 'Father Christmas10' impersonation yesterday was to mutter 'blimey' (or something like that!) and to instruct the 'Memsahib' to fetch me a large scotch! I have lived 80 years listening to greedy, parsimonius Chancellors of the Exchequers dribbling out halfpennies with one hand and grabbing my wallet with the other, so yesterday's mega-splurge took my breath away. I agree that we live in truly extra-ordinary times and that maybe extra-ordinary measures are required, but even so . . . !
It was all a bit worrying but then a cheerful thought occurred. If Chancellor Sunak is determined to break Mark Carney's Bank of England then, given my advanced age and the virulent spread of this conanvirus-thingie, then I could be dead in a month or two and and it will be SoD's problem as to how the 'dosh' is to be paid back!
"It's bein' so cheerful as keeps me so young!'
"...how the 'dosh' is to be paid back!"
What is this "paid back" you speak of?
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 12 March 2020 at 11:21
Whisper it, but is this Government socialist? ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/11/whisper-government-socialist/
Well, I said it June 23rd 2016. This was the inevitable consequence of "take back control".
You always say "we always manage to muddle through". No we don't. We didn't manage to "muddle through" after 1945-75, we went bust, and had to join the EU for perpetual external oversight and independent governance. The "muddle through", if it was anything, was the act of joining and staying in the EU for 45 years, you can call that "muddling through" alright. So by definition we are no longer "muddling through".
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Thursday, 12 March 2020 at 22:00
Same, same down here. Our wonderful "gummint" is throwing money around like it wasn't theirs - which it isn't of course.
Stimulating the economy is the catch cry and to prove it all us wrinklies are supposed to get a cool $750 each to help it. I am supposed to feel warm and fuzzy but when I shot off an e-mail to my local pollie to remind him it was my money in the first place all I received was a "Thank you for your comment". Unwritten was the suggestion that I "f--- off and stop bothering his importanceness".
We could do with a "Donald" down here.
Posted by: AussieD | Thursday, 12 March 2020 at 22:26
So that's the socialism, how's the national bit going in Blighty's new Reich?
Quite well according to Fraser Nelson in the DT ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/12/global-response-coronavirus-shows-nation-state-back/
What is for sure is that the old assumptions about globalisation have gone, never to return.
Ve haff vays of making you not valk, old bean!
Capt Mainwaring would be proud, I reckon he was a secret admirer.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 13 March 2020 at 06:19
Seems like DomBo is listening to Blighty's "experts" - the Gaffer's NBF's - on coronavirus.
Let's see how that one goes.
Wiping out 10,000 elderly and vulnerable people per annum through starvation and dehydration on the NHS appears to be only the starter in Blighty's new Gulag, a sort of "Arbeit Macht Frei" entrance gate into the new dark age.
I think I might have been hallucinating but I just heard on BBC radio 4 that BoJo's favourite character and hero of the original Jaws film was the mayor of Amityville or whatever the town was called. You remember, the one who kept the beaches open in spite of the shark gobbling up the tourists?
Why do I get the feeling this one is going to push the limits of the meaning of the words surreal, farce, cretin and desolation?
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 13 March 2020 at 07:43