Crooked MPs Fear Expenses Audit

Crooked MPs of all parties are panicking about the detailed audit of claims that is taking place. Going back several years many MPs have much to hide. The dodgiest have resigned from both Government and Opposition front benches. There is an unholy alliance between the likes of Hazel Blears, Bill Cash and David Cameron to bring down Gordon Brown so as to avoid this audit.

Gordon Brown is surrounded by enemies because he is fundamentally honest. He might not admit error easily but at least he doesn’t nick our money. Of course David Cameron is vulnerable here as are many in the opposition. The last time they got turfed out it was because of “Tory Sleaze”, “Cash for Questions” and so on. They haven’t changed, look at Lord Ashcroft, he doesn’t even pay UK tax and he’s effectively an ex-pat but gives money to the Tories and he’s even Deputy Chairman of that party. Dodgy or what?

The irony is that Hazel Blears and her ilk are probably thinking about voting against the Government on the no confidence motion next week to either get revenge or try and save their own skins.

David Cameron and the Tory press are frantically trying to engineer a popular movement for an early General Election precisely because the MPs’ expenses audit will be so damaging. John Hutton has decided to abandon ship as well. Wonder why?

If Gordon Brown can hang on he’ll expose the corruption of some of his own MPs as a price worth paying to destroy Cameron and bring in Proportional Representation. The Tories know this means they’ll never see the inside of Number Ten again if electoral reform makes it through Parliament.

Brown’s real problem is that he has over estimated the integrity of his colleagues. Tony Blair set the low bar as far as propriety is concerned and a lot of them, like Blears, have followed suit and been caught with their fingers in the till. If there are too many they’ll get him out and a new leader will take a different tack on the expenses. Words like “we need to draw a line under it and mover on” and blah-de-blah-blah etc.

As for James Purnell - scab, traitor, greedy pig who got caught with a hell of a lot more to hide.

Tags: Bent MPs, Political Comment

Proportional Representation only way to save New Labour

The Tories are desperate for an election. Why? Well apart from the obvious answer that they want to get their sweaty privileged paws stuck in the till there are several:

They want to preserve the right of MPs to have directorships and outside “interests”. This is of course political double talk for being able to accept back handers for favours.

Secondly they want to keep the expenses much the way they are.

Third, they realise that the talk of reforming parliament is double talk for changing the voting system to PR.

The majority of the country don’t vote Tory, so it’s in the majority’s interests that they not be permitted to win. The queen will already be pencilling in dates for royal weddings to give them a boost when they plunge the majority of us into poverty and servitude. So there would be a consensus for PR even if rushed through. It’s Gordon Brown’s only chance of power.

No wonder the chump wants an election now, so does the queen. Check out the seventies she stuck her unelected nose in then as well, and condemned us all to nigh on twenty years of chump government. Thatcher and Major, remember them?

Cameron is a chump Etonian with a multi-millionaire wife and stinking rich family. He pretends to be “ordinary” while claiming £1250 a month for a mortgage, he doesn’t have to pay council tax and uses the NHS because he gets a private level of service completely free of charge.

Gordon Brown might look dumb, might be dumb, but he’s fundamentally honest. Cameron is disingeuous at best. A Liberal, Labour and SNP pact would be democratic; it might be dysfunctional, but it’s what democracy is all about.

Tags: Political Comment, politicians, politics, proportional representation, tories

Alistair Darling admits bail out failure

The bank bailout has been a total failure. It’s only purpose to save the banks from bankruptcy and keep the 2% of depositors who have most of the money rich. It’s cost us all about £12,000 each. Now personally I’d rather have the twelve grand than give a handout to some silver-spooner with ten million in the bank. They’d only have gotten £50,000 if we hadn’t forked out all of that money. It has to be the ultimate irony that Gordon Brown, the Trade Union’s man, has had to bail out the fat cats, rich kids and the inheritors of unearned income. But it hasn’t worked for the rest of us. The banks won’t lend us so much as a flake of paint unless we’re loaded already. So what to do?

1+1 = 3 and a 1/2

Well he’s going to give the bankers more money, and he might decide to give it to us as well. But where will he get it? Well he’s got a plan. And the plan is to prove Bertrand Russell wrong: 1+1 doesn’t equal 2 at all. No, not really. Not in his world anyway. It’s all a metaphysical abstraction that bears no relation to reality. And anyway what is reality? If we all think the earth is flat it is, isn’t it? So now we are all going to learn something new from Alistair, and all believe it, and then everything will be okay. So, Ask Alistair Darling how many beans make five and he’ll tell you twelve. He’s invented a perpetual motion machine as well, and he can literally pick himself up by the bootlaces and defy gravity. Yes, he’s come up with a way to make free money, and he walks on water as well.

In other words he’s going to bankrupt Britain.

Tags: banks bailout, Political Comment, politics

The woman round the corner with the old Labrador reckons the UK is stuffed.

You see interest rates are effectively at zero already, what with inflation. Water doesn’t boil at 100 Celsius at the top of Everest and Sterling no longer buys more than a Euro. The dualism approach of UK economic policy, sandwiched between the macho manoeuvrings of the Euro and US Dollar, seemed pretty good at the peak of the boom. Now we can see that Gordon Brown really did walk about naked. He’s been cheered to the rafters around the capitalist globe by a disparate, desperate and intellectually barren Political Class shutting their eyes to his evident nudity. His prescription for our economic woes a dose of Keynesian Economics: borrowing to invest in infrastructure, an attempt at stimulating the economy by borrowing money to create jobs building stuff. In other words, and here’s where the capitalists don’t like it, transferring the power of wealth away from goods and assets, like houses, shares, equity in homes, cars and so on. Away from unearned income, like interest on savings and pensions; instead increasing the value of production and Labour.

So, like an NHS quack who’s sniffed too much laughing gas, some New Labour MPs demonstrate a cursory knowledge of medicine prescribed by quasi-Marxist politicos. But they’re the same ones who misunderstood the theory at Uni. They might have some idea about the divisions of labour, inequalities, unfairness of male constructs, like: ownership, justice, goods, power, servitude and so on. They even appear to have genuine chips on their shoulders. Some have gone the extra mile towards patronising all and sundry, by affecting a vernacular that is almost not normal, and vaguely parochial.

Gordon Brown wonders where it all went wrong

Gordon Brown’s next step, now borrowing and interest rate cuts haven’t worked. Now that nationalising the banks and “recapitalising” haven’t worked. “Recapitalisation?” Why it’s nothing more than a fancy-dan way of saying we’re protecting wealthy.

Well what’s left?

Oh yes, I remember, like in the seventies: print loads of money, borrow money off of the IMF to fix that, get Tories in power for two decades abusing all of the human rights infringements brought in by the quasi-neo-intelligent-semi-comatose-Brownshites.

Mmm - power cuts, strikes, unrest, boring television, no job, no dole, no sick, no cheap fags, no cheap booze, empty pubs, cold houses, dark streets, Esther Rantzen. Great.

So once Gordon Brown prints and spends all the money he can produce from the million tons of ink he’s just bought inflation will hit 15% , interest rates will hit 16%, house prices fall through the floor, unemployment off the chart.

The poor become a good deal poorer.

Good call.

Why doesn’t someone tell them what all that political historicism means? But what else is there? Chump Cameron and his best chump chum Osbourne the pea-brained Old Etonian half-wit. Or thingy and Vince Cable.

Now I think the SNP should seriously think about invading England. I’d vote for England to be part of Scotland any day. It hasn’t worked so well the other way round recently has it, so why not? Alex Salmond for Prime Minister of the UK I say.

Tags: economics, inflation

Sterling will crash to an all time low. Thus spake the bloke round the corner.

He reckons that the pound will fall so low that Gordon Brown won’t be able to borrow a penny. He’ll run out of cash trying to pay the wages and then have to go back to the IMF. Just like that retard Healy and Jim “Donkey Kong” Callaghan before him. The lights will go off, three day weeks will be the norm and bodies won’t get burnt he opined sardonically.

Run on Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays Bank as Administration feared

Alistair nabs the swag as RBS and Barclays go bust

As the Icelandic banking system begins to close down and savers and depositors realise they will have lengthy waits for their cash, as Iceland prints enough money to cover the guarantees, the effect ripples around the world. The ripple reached Tsunami proportions as the wave gained momentum during early day trading. British banking stocks lost billions during a deluge of bad sentiment and waves of panic drained billions from the stock market as panicking investors shift their money into tangibles like platinum, gold and copper. Nigh on 30% in value was wiped of RBS as it drowned in a sea of sludge entirely of it’s own creation. Not only that but both RBS and Barclays have gone cap in hand to the government. Imagine the conversation:

“Err, Alistair…”

“I’m determined to listen in whatever way I can,” said Alistair sternly

“We’ve got no cash left mate,” the banker cringed as  Alistair flicked an imaginary fleck from his left lapel.

Pregnant pause, eyebrows bristling.

“yes, I’m still listening,” he said whilst continuing to stroke his lapel and gazed into the distance.

“We’re shagged boyo.”

“And….hmm, I see that would be a problem. You’re fired, give me the keys to your office and bugger off.”

So, RBS and Barclays is to be nationalised, but the savings are safe, even though there’s no money left and the bailiffs have taken all the computers. It’s okay he can print billions of fifty pound notes, that’ll do the job.

RBS Busted Flush

The banks will end up being nationalised and the money in them will plummet in value. Anyone with half a brain and more than a fiver in Royal Bank of Scotland or Barclays Bank should get it out now, transfer it or convert it to gold, do it now before the run on the banks gathers pace.

Now who are the government going to borrow all that money from that they need to pay the wages? I know the Russians, they’ve got £600,000,000,000.00 in reserves, about $1.5 trillion dollars, hmmm that’s a coincidence, you think we’ve been hacked then?

Tags: bankrupt, Banks, nationalisation, RBS

Greedy bankers steal all our money and head for the beach or go fishing after causing economic meltdown. Stock Markets are plunging and lending dries up as the cash disappears.

Greedy Banker steals your cash

The markets are collapsing amidst complete economic meltdown, anyone with any money in any bank should get it out NOW! Buy gold, platinum, copper, lead, zinc, corn, pork bellies, anything tangible. Ideally something that you can see and touch, not a piece of paper guaranteeing it, that’s all money is. It will be worthless if the banks collapse.

So what if the government guarantee it all? Not much point having a million quid if it only buys you a tomato or a bag of chips is it? The only way the government can pay is if they print more money, which leads to inflation, or more simply put money becoming worthless. They aren’t guaranteeing anything really, it’ll be devalued to nothing. This is true redistribution, we’ll all be as skint as each other. Is this Marx being right again?

No just fiddling on a mass scale, bankers and other “professionals” associated with the housing market have acted in such a way as to artificially ramp up the value of property in order to increase secured lending and thereby ramp up the value of their balance sheets. In the process the humans involved have earned massive  commissions, the rest of us are left with massive  debts or savings that will soon become worthless numbers in a database, private pensions will disappear in a cloud of foggy confusion that is nobody’s fault. No one will spend one second of hard time inside prison for wrecking the lives of billions.

There is no money, it is all an abstract idea called capitalism, there are no bars of gold behind it all any more: Gordon Brown flogged it all at the bottom of the market, remember? Houses are for living in not investing in, they make no money, the whole thing was a bubble of gum waiting to burst all over our faces, the shopkeeper bankers are laughing all the way to the beach.

Tags: Add new tag, economic meltdown, greedy banker

We’ve all got issues, we all want to shout about them sometimes. Only one person has ever been born who didn’t and he wanted to save us all from ourselves. So if that’s an issue perhaps even he had them.

The thing that gets my goat at the moment is the way that we are expected to swallow the fact that it is of fundamental importance to nationalise banks. Depositing money in a bank is a risky business, that’s why governments have deposit protection schemes. It is accepted that they can go bust. So tough if they do and you lose all of your money, tough if you can’t pay your mortage, why should I cover it? If I buy shares, or run a business, and the thing goes belly up is the government going to bail me out of the slimy stuff? Not likely. The patronising attitude of politicians is pathetic. Basically most folk have squat in the bank, let alone a spare thirty five grand. Most folk owe a fortune out but keep up with it some how, why should they cover someone’s savings and maintain the differentials and privilege that those with savings enjoy. That’s what is really happening. The rich are getting bailed out by the poor.

Let them go bust I say, tough tits mate, sign on.