Meanwhile, the rest of us were getting on with being skint
I’m sorry to harp on about this but when Gordon Brown says something like this:
“For savers, for small businesses, and for homeowners, we must in an uncertain and unstable world be the rock of stability on which the British people can depend.”
…my instant reaction is to ask about those people who aren’t savers, small businesspeople or homeowners. It seems to have escaped the Prime Minister’s attention that for a huge swathe of the country this makes absolutely no sense. It doesn’t distract or detract from the slump they’re already in.
Seeing a bunch of suits down to their last Ferraris and having government money thrown at them must read to many like an incredibly dull, complicated and yet in extremely poor-taste novel. Where’s their rocks of stability on which they can depend?
You know where? It’s the neo-Thatcherite government ministers following the lead of the petty prejudices of the gutter press and telling the low-waged and disabled and unemployed that they’re feckless and lazy and parasitic. That’s the one thing the lower classes can depend on. Uncertainty, vilification and threats. If only they’d had the sense and foresight to be parasites of an altogether different magnitude.
Forget about bailouts and economic war cabinets for them. The government has already surrendered. There are, after all, such things as acceptable losses.
Posted on October 13th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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Looks like hard-working families have been dropped from the priority list, then.
There won’t be any hard-working families soon, we’re headed for the dole.
It’s been a while since I was on the dole, but it was damned hard work at the time.
How about using all that lie detector technology aimed at the poor, feckless and disabled on bankers?
Yes the PM loves to use virtuous soundbites about whom he considers the hard pressed… He could just finalise the whole thing by descibing them as the ‘tax payer’… It would seem to me that it was some of the ‘homeowners’ that were indeed to blame for part of the problem…
However that would be me using the same illiterate twaddle the PM uses… It is clear that we are being brutally had from behind and getting ready for a reach around in the not too distant future…
This fecker we didn’t elect,
Our lives and our livings has wrecked;
And now, when we bridle,
He tells us we’re idle;
And since we’re so feckless, we’re fecked.
El Gordo is churning out diamond-encrusted, class AAA humbug by trying to imply that the ‘British people’ consists of savers, small businesses, homeowners. When we all know that its the star-spangled elite who are the REAL people, who will never be danger of being taxed properly.
The thing is, it doesn’t even affect all small businesses and homeowners either.
Plenty of businesses have money in the bank and use borrowing to fill odd gaps in their cashflow, or for planned expansion. In the case of cashflow, a couple of extra points for a couple of month on a few thousand isn’t going to ruin them.
Then there’s the homeowners who bought more than 5 years ago, or who didn’t also try and have holidays in Dubai at the same.
All that the government is trying to do is to keep the bubble going, instead of letting the market adjust to where it should be.
In the case of cashflow, a couple of extra points for a couple of months on a few thousand isn’t going to ruin them.
No. But a collapse in consumer demand may very well do so.