Truth and Consequences.
Whilst the Punch and Judy show that PMQ’s has become was distracting the collosseum crowds upstairs, Mervyn King lobbed an Exocet into the basement of 10 Downing Street with surgical precision yesterday.
There were more gems in this speech than any regal crown.
Take this one – ‘what is needed is a credible statement’ – a beautifully crafted phrase that was laser guided to fly in through the keyhole of No 10, before exploding its crude message of ‘I’m telling the oiks they haven’t yet heard the truth’.
Or this – ‘the scale of the deficit is truly extraordinary […] there will certainly need to be a plan for the lifetime of the next parliament […] to show how those deficits will be brought down […] to figures below those which were shown in the Budget figures.’ – a cluster bomb, contents ranging from ‘I can’t believe my eyes’, to ‘whoever gets in next time round will need five years to even begin to make a dent in these figures’, with an aftershock of ‘ the budget figures you were fed were nonsense on stilts’.
My personal favourite was ‘I don’t think the chancellor is remotely relaxed’ – the unseen suicide bomber this, ‘I understand that the chancellor is having a nervous breakdown over all this, and I sympathise with his difficulties in the Brown bunker’.
The killer blow, though, was landed by the Excoet.
‘We were given a statutory responsibility for financial stability in the Banking Act. The question I put to you in February, and to which I’ve not really received any adequate answer from anywhere, is what exactly it is that people expect the Bank of England to do? […]
If you’re content with that, that’s fine by me. What you can’t do is turn around afterwards and say ‘You have the statutory responsibility, why didn’t you do something?’ when there is nothing we can actually do.’
There you had it, the Bank of England has been nobbled, there is nothing they can do to stop the carnage, just as there is nothing parliament can do to remove Gordon Brown, the man is out of control and unstoppable.
Even Nick Robinson, that bastion of support for Gordon’s lies was forced to call his claim that capital expenditure was ‘going up’ an ‘inaccurate claim‘ yesterday.
The British public should be camped on the grass of parliament square, chanting ‘Out! Out!, Out!’; we deliver portaloos to make the Tamils more comfortable whilst they protest, we cheer our celebrities as they protest on behalf of the Gurkhas, we line the streets in our millions to protest against the Iraq war, but we cannot work up the energy to take direct action on our own behalf.
Mervyn King has told you the truth, are you happy to sit quietly not making a fuss whilst the consequences wash over you?
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June 25, 2009 at 11:12 am -
I need a nice cup of tea…….
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June 25, 2009 at 11:15 am -
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June 25, 2009 at 11:33 am -
What time is Eastenders on?
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June 25, 2009 at 12:06 pm -
Agh, Anna, what a kind gesture. I’m just about ready for a cup of coffee now. Thank you.
You know, I’ve been thinking about this problem for a very long time now…….
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June 25, 2009 at 12:23 pm -
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June 25, 2009 at 1:08 pm -
I think people are still sorting out their own finances,
the government weren’t the only ones spending and borrowing
in an out of control fashion.
We have been fed ‘debt is ok, its away of life’ for a very long time, students are encouraged to run up debt, house buyers were encouraged to borrow way above their earnings.
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June 25, 2009 at 1:09 pm -
Anna you are so right. This country seems to get worked up about relatively unimportant things but ignores, or is too ignorant to take to the streets about, the enormous debt Blair, Brown and these crazy armchair socialists have run up. ’tis only a matter of time before I beg a place to sleep in your garden shed !
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June 25, 2009 at 1:10 pm -
Oi Miss Mink, don’t you put me among most oiks!
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June 25, 2009 at 1:12 pm -
ooh touchy, lexander . . .
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June 25, 2009 at 2:01 pm -
Who blinks first, millions want to protest but no one is willing to make the first move just encase everyone else decides soap viewing is safer. Some one at the top of Britain needs to go to their neighbouring friends and round them up, and then like a Mexican wave, they round up their friends. Then the tsunami will sweep down the land and wipe out the enemy within Westminster. Who will be the butterfly to start the firestorm at the other end of the forest?
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June 25, 2009 at 2:18 pm -
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June 25, 2009 at 2:19 pm -
“Even Nick Robinson, that bastion of support for Gordon’s lies was forced to call his claim that capital expenditure was ‘going up’ an ‘inaccurate claim‘ yesterday.”
Brown misuses language in the way Les Dawson misused pianos – it is intentional. Just as what Gordon Brown describes as ‘investment’ isn’t, his notion of capital expenditure for the sake of a soundbite is not the norm.
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June 25, 2009 at 2:20 pm -
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June 25, 2009 at 3:17 pm -
Jarrow marches are all very jolly things and sub-marxian and all that…but, objectively/, what is needed is a compensatory counter-balance in society; and, that /is/ an aristicracy that once again is worth a flying something-or-other.
1) There is no reason whatsoever that the so-called ‘evolution’ of History ‘must’ be somehw in the whiggish phantasy uni-directional.
2) Therefore, let us dredge up the idea of /cycles/, hmm?
And, to conclude,
3) only enquire:
Is it not now time, above all, for HM, the Queen, to /re-assert/ the prerogative; and, adduce parliamentary grand theft /and/ sheer un-enforceable output: and, therefore, to veto all the bills She had heretofore agreed in Privy Council, before this sitting?
Think of it for just a moment, pray, why ever not a living monarchy, again, and not just a tourist attraction?
Why not, it should at least add to the mix AND make things such as ‘democracy’ actually interesting again — instead of the low affair, now, of this foul & filthy & /objectively/ never-ending parade of Baby Peter killers…and, their professionalist ’supervisors’.
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June 25, 2009 at 5:45 pm -
There has always been The Emperers New Clothes syndrome about Nu Labour and its borrowed policies from the Tories and the Soviet Union.What a diabolical mixture has come to fruitition while as usual, one can rely on the apathy of the soperific masses.The days of can I have some more must be bringing the nation to its knees?
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June 25, 2009 at 6:08 pm -
I was just reaching a conclusion about these things, after a hard days thought, when somebody announced the expenses of a load of BBC jobsworth staff ….well….that was it, I can stand no more! Where’s the kettle….?
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June 25, 2009 at 6:10 pm -
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June 25, 2009 at 6:42 pm -
Do you want me to send you some PG tips? I have some spare….
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June 25, 2009 at 11:40 pm -
Yuk!
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