The cynics wife theory

Surely if I want to do good things I can find support in my community? Maybe keep a hospital open or save some green belt land? If I try I can get people to come out to support me?
But If I want to do bad things like say polute the environment by building another runway or destroy some green belt by building a huge supermarket? Maybe buy a few more bombs? Well its going to be hard to get people out on the streets then and as a result hard to do bad things.
I still need influence though and because theres few of them they will have to be powerful decision makers.
The best influence to have is of course political. They make the decisions and send in the bulldozers after the so called enquiry has confirmed its a bad thing I want to do. They can even sign the cheques to help me buy the bombs. So the best way to get influence is to buy it and go to the right dinners and meet the right people. Therefore I become a political donor in order to build, polute or deprive in whatever form I choose. This is relatively easy with a party system of politics because they are a team and stick together from the top down.

Hence the Cynics Wife law of politics says that

"The party system by its nature demands that we have leades who work against our wishes"

DO NOT VOTE!

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Take that to the bank

Ok so things are gonna be tough for the rest of the year. Maybe just two holidays this year or cut back on the mileage, maybe one less business lunch. Buy that long awaited million pound house once the market has stabilised. We can ride it out eh.
That's all well and good and a few quid here and there makes not much of a jot. After all we all reaped whilst the sun shone etc.
All well and good that is unless you are one of the people who actually, physically creates all the wealth in the first place. Just for sake of argument lets call them the low paid. They have no where to go, not very easy to maneuver when you are already rammed against the wall with your arm up your back. If you are one of those who is forced to walk to work so you can buy a packet of heavily taxed fags or maybe take a sweaty sandwich rather than dine in the canteen to save a few shilling. A few quid really hits hard, really hard.

But have no fear help is at hand. Gordon Brown who has managed to take the credit for a natural world wide economic boom over the last ten years will save us all. He has had meetings about how to help boost the housing market. The very same housing market that is NOT included in any inflation figures quoted. (wondered why it felt more like 3%?) The Bank of England will put £15bn more into the banking system. Presumably to help the economy by increasing overtime at the mint? The move is an effort to improve liquidity in the financial markets.
It has now injected more than £50bn since the start of the credit crisis, which was sparked by massive losses for banks who lent in the US sub-prime sector. Yes that's what we said lent, with interest. Banks are actually in it to make money you see and they have been pretty good at it until now. Now its tough they need bailing out with taxpayers money yet again. 50,000 million pounds of your money to bail out the guys whose greed has caused the problem in the first place. No one mentionng how hard it must be paying back all those fraudulant bank charges they hit you with either, never mind throw it in the pot.

The bank of England will cut interest rates to the banks by lending them your money as long as they promise to pass that on to the lenders they are already making money from so that we can borrow some more and they can then make some more money so they can pay it back to the government who can pay it back to you. Simple!

Meanwhile lets go and get the butties made and off to bed, I have get up an hour early so I can walk to work tomorow. Anyone got a light?
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