A bit of Tom Stack style realism

With apologies to Thomas Gray

The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day.

The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea.

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

                                                                          Thomas Gray 1716-71

Elegy in the Real World by Tom Stack

As the Evil Empire sinks its fangs ever deeper into the fabric of British Sporting Life, has the time come to repatriate our destiny, as the nation that prides itself on fair play and level playing fields.

  For if the invasion by our Antipodean allies, becomes all consuming, as appears to be the case. Especially if the launch of their new Formula One Motor Racing channel, is anything to go by, projecting it as if they now own the TV rights to F1 and every other sporting activity, in perpetuity. (It could bear distinct similarities to the way the Treaty of Nanking 1842, ceded the island of Hong Kong to the British Crown in Perpetuity). Though it could be there’s a lesson here, like? ‘Nothing is Forever’?

   Soon maybe we’ll wake up and discover they’ve hi-jacked the Horse & Country Channel and wish to charge us for watching the Ploughing Competitions. (At least that’s all in a straight line). Then when it’s all done and dusted we get to watch a Paint Drying event, just to soften us up. But seriously if we don’t act to stem this rising tide, we’ll all be drowning in a sea of subscriptions steadily and remorselessly creeping up to more than £500 per annum, on top of the licence fee.

  So with all the resources at their command, is it not time to set the BBC free to compete on a level playing field by using the massive income they enjoy for the benefit of the hard pressed taxpayers who contribute the Beeb’s income of £3,500+mn circa annually, in its entirety. Usually for no other reason than the most morbid of social engineering experimentation? Scrap the licence fee and turn it into a voluntary subscription channel. Let's have a bit of real competition. 

  No more streaming of cut price discarded snippets cast at our feet from on high, by the Evil Empire, in the way the best of British Football has been destroyed, by an Arena Mentality more suited to the Roman Empire with the following of a baying mob and a wages which make a Banker's bonus look like small change.

Watch this space, I’ll be back! 

 Tom.

Maybe the Cat can look at the King (Part II)

But can Lib-Dems command the heights?

By trying to influence government policy, is Nick Clegg condemning his party to eternal meltdown or hoping that in some way the public at large will begin to embrace the Lib-Dem mantra of wishy-washy political expediency? Though more likely this Lib-Dem posturing is the obvious result of endless generations in isolated opposition.

 

  Polls apart, the damage inflicted by going against mainstream public opinion is causing incalculable damage to UK Plc. So the flaky responses to enduring problems will come back to haunt them, as they face even more generations of eternal opposition, at the next asking.

 

  You see the big problem here for the Lib-Dems is that in opposition you can say or do anything, since you are never going to answer for the result. So as the levers of power slip effortlessly from their illusory perception of the reality of Coalition, it becomes patently clear they are singing from the wrong hymn sheet.

  Maybe Dave believes that in casting aspersions at Nick’s disapprobation of Tory realism, he is driving the dagger ever deeper into the heart of Liberal thinking. It could well be that in planting seeds of despair at Lib-Dem stalling of promised reforms, he is creating the impression of what the benefits would be if went his own way.

 

  Can we really believe this tack after so many broken promises, though in some ways  as the Europhiles go for more pernicious tax raising measures calculated to neuter the position of  UK’s ‘City’ of London as the Clearing Bank for the World. The danger of closer ties with Brussels looks doomed, as the real power brokers take over and the ‘City’ takes over the world.

 

  But hang on a mo, think on this! Does such a takeover depend on survival of Fractional Reserve Banking? The means by which, what we assume to be our Democratic Freedoms are stifled by the real Fat Controller. For it doesn’t have to be this way. We can follow the Yellow Brick Road as laid out for us by Frank L. Baum in the real Wizard of Oz, not I assert the Judy Garland version.

 

  On the other hand maybe there is no such thing as Jam Tomorrow, as the Queen insisted. Jam yesterday or jam today, but never jam tomorrow for tomorrow never comes. It’s just any other day, it’s never today.

Watch this space, I’ll be back and lookout for (Part III)

Tom.  

£161mn sterling in Bank Bonus Payments

The Bankers price for Propping up UK Plc and Whitehall? Part I

It’s a Pinch really, if you look at things from the government’s point of view. All they need to do is wait for HM Customs and Revenue to collect it, hand it over. Then they sit back and distribute as they think, to raise the prospects of clinging on to the levers of power for another four or five years. Depending of course on when they think they can pitch a winner.

  But why this witch hunt, the Bankers are doing no more than the law permits, merely extracting their pound of flesh for operating their infamous Fractional Reserve Banking (FRB). The means by which they produce money out of thin air. It’s no more than a figure on a balance sheet, with an interest bearing debt liability, collateralised by a borrower’s assets. Effectively they’re converting an individual’s properties to interest bearing debt, they can sell on to the highest bidder, before the roundabout comes full circle.

  Presumably it was borrowing by government to promote their own particular political agenda that accumulated this mountain of debt we now have liability for. They did it in our name fer chrissakes! But in the end, it brought about their downfall, as the commitment became unsustainable from income and they had to resort to more borrowing to prop up their faltering political aims.

  It’s funny how things work out and it’s amazing how true the aphorism that: ‘Things work out the way they’re supposed to’, turns out to be a truism of immense perspicacity. I recall it from a film I watched many years ago and reflected on it from time to time, when things didn’t go quite the way I planned.

  But hey presto along comes an altogether unexpected event or happening that changes everything and things are not quite as black as you thought they were. But in truth this is not a mountain of debt just a mountain of interest that may or may not be collectible. So it gets written off, as in the case of Greece. But in effect this destroys credit and forever the politicians are bleating we need more lending. Why? Because only through this lending and (FRB) can the money be raised to sustain them in power  

Watch this space, I’ll be back! So lookout for Part II

Tom.