Not Quite St.Gordon Yet !!

by Craig Chapman - 07:47 on 03 April 2009

They came, they saw, they dined, they had no bloody choice !!

Yes, the fine upstanding leaders of the 20 leading debt ridden nations assembled in London to try and get themselves out of a hole of their own making. St Gordon called and they flew in and met The Queen - and Mr Mandleson. 

Popular Alliance certainly does not condone the mob actions during the protests this week, especially given the ironic fact that many (not all) of those marching on Monday for jobs and saving the environment were the usual job-shy tree huggers. Protest, yes of course, these governments have preached globalisation for many years and Popular Alliance fully supports international trade, but to let things balance like a set of dominoes that with one minor wobble, the whole lot falls over, is rank bad management and worthy of prison sentences, not front page adoration.

Blame the bankers, blame the greedy mortgages, blame the overuse of credit cards - but the buck stops with world and national leaders setting and maintaining regulations that safeguard our livelihoods - the first responsibility of a government - and in which these people have failed.

We have a Prime Minister who sets an appalling example to the country, such is his addiction to borrowing money that he and we don't have, and then borrowing (inventing ??) more that no-one has to pay-off those debts. I'm damn sure the bailiffs would have been knocking on our doors by now, so how come St Gordon is permitted to coerce the spending of 1 Trillion pounds. The only stimulus this man should be feeling is a policeman's hand on his shoulder and the words, "you're coming with us."

Like everyone else, we'd love yesterday's action to take away all the job losses and the gloom. The G20 group really had no option given the mess they have created, but like a group of dying junkies deciding to retake all the drugs they have ever taken in one last bloated session, these leaders have decided to re-spend the entire totals that they have wasted and mis-managed - and then to double it. It’s not just our Children who will be paying for this with their taxes, but our Great-Grandchildren

The Sun gave some excellent examples of just how big 1 Trillion dollars is :-

It will take the USA 72 years to produce 1 Trillion dollars and cost $62 million in doing so.

Laid end to end, 1 Trillion dollars would trail far beyond the sun, and if a dishonest banker were to try and steal some from the other end, it would take more than 8  minutes to see him doing so, such is the distance for the light to travel. 

What a wonderful legacy our greedy generation has left behind !!   

So guys, its back to spend spend spend again, with no care where the money comes from and who is paying to cover some job-shy freeloaders, Fatcat Eurocrats and their lavish, hassle-free lives.

Have no lessons been learned from this episode ? You would think that being a Minister's son, St Gordon might have come across the terms "repent" and "atone," but no, this man has no humility and should have his photo in the Oxford English dictionary as the sole description of the word "arrogant (noun, adjective, verb, it)."

I am trying to recall Labour's last manifesto. The bits about sign over our law making, taxation and independence escape me, as does "bankrupt the nation for the next few generations." The only bit we have kept from the EU is our currency, which is now physically and morally bankrupt.

In any other job, there would have been a lot of "gardening leave" handed out by now.

Do we not have to re-consider how we manage the world and make people responsible for their own actions and benefits ? 

No doubt many of the "regulations" to be enforced will strengthen the position of the European Union. Sarkozy and Merkel would not roll over so easily without a whole host of concessions, to drag back to Brussels in Gollum-like glee. 

International trade has to flourish, yes, but some form of protectionism also has to come into play. St Gordon is more concerned about our EU subscriptions building new power stations in Latvia and Bulgaria than he is about jobless guys back in Cowdenbeath who voted for him (no-one else has ever voted for him). That is wrong. 

How a council or police force can consider buying vehicles or trains not produced by British hands at this time is beyond us. Whole chains of tax paying workers rely on such moves, whilst our government and our entire system relies on these tax payers earning a wage. We shall not go to USA, nor Japan, nor Germany, nor France and see the local police, councils and establishment driving around in imported vehicles, so the same should be the case here. Likewise in many other industries, our trade imbalance is embarrassing and leaves us very vulnerable when governments mess up the finances. 

It is the government's responsibility to firstly protect its own citizens. 

 

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