As the Coalition Stages a Valiant attempt to promote growth
Surely it’s time for a bit of basic economic sense. Spend only what you can earn and save a bit for a rainy day. This reckless gamble of persuading banks to lend to people already in it over their heads is crackers. For if our former PM/Chancellor ever earned a penny by the sweat of his brow, I’d be surprised. He didn't have a clue. Swanning around the world pursuing this Walter Mitty dream of re-organising the world order, prompted by his Prince of Darkness as they supped in the Last Chance Saloon..
It must verge on coercion, this business of calling in bank bosses for arm twisting sessions. They’re more concerned to save their own skin in the present situation and they’re well schooled in inscrutability. Especially in marshalling that blank expression they use, when denying further credit. I often paused to wonder if they practice it in the washroom just before an appointment. Though maybe first of all we should pay due regard to a few words by of one of our greatest scribes Rudyard Kipling:-
If you can make a heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, and lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss. If you can take the unforgiving minute and fill it with sixty seconds worth of distance run. The world is yours and everything that’s in it and which is more my son you’ll be a man.
If the boy Gordie had not been the fool we now know him to be, he’d have gathered up his bed roll and moved on before jumping into No.10. But instead of apologising and moving on, he tried to tough it out hoping the mess he'd created would just go away. Instead he tried one last desperate gamble by re-inventing the Prince of Darkness with his pathetic rebuttal mantra and his attempts to rubbish everybody and his dog.
Previously they'd used him to con a generation of young people who’d never known the worst excesses of Tax & Spend and the nightmare rumbles on, as Labour buries its collectively head in the sand and ressurrects the failed financial engineers headed by Balls & Co., to tell us if we'd stayed with them, it would all have been oh so easy.
Fat chance, for if, as Harold Wilson pointed out:- "A week in politics is a long time." What the heck was November 2008 to June 2010? It had to be eighteen months of Hell on Earth.
Watch this space, I'll be back!
Tom.
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