The times we try to live in: a wide-ranging rant (but don’t worry, there’s humour in there as well)
I give in to the torrential and near-continual rainfall this summer. I give in to the inevitable liquifying of my brain owing to the bickering between the only two parties we ever see elected to government, both of them mediocre headline-chasers, uninspiring and with memberships hungry for power for power’s sake, keen to bring in yet more control freak policies, and to fuck over those least capable of withstanding being fucked over by anyone. I give in to the newspapers, TV and radio that have collectively decided it’s time for a Second Great Depression because it promises great opportunities for photographers to snap starving waifs in the city centre of Bradford (which, we’ve been told, by a misnamed think tank, should be emptied of human life as quickly as possible, with the refugees rehomed by uncharacteristically generous and practical-minded Oxford and Cambridge dons).
tags: Africa, anger, chavs, China, Conservatives, credit cards, debt, depression, estate agents, Georgia, global warming, inflation, Labour, mortgages, Olympics, opinion polls, politics, rain, rant, recession, Russia, SADBrown bribes the banks with our money
For too long, the banks have had it all their own way. The credit crunch—or, more accurately, the greatest debt crisis ever—has been caused by their boundless greed. But what does our government do to address the situation? Does it smack the banks down, order them to start lending again which is, after all, one of the major things that defines a bank as a bank? Does it do anything to assist the lowest earners whose incomes are regularly raided to top up the banks’ funds with penalty charges? Does it, in effect, say who’s the boss? We is the boss! Does it go all Jesus-in-the-temple?
tags: banks, capitalism, credit cards, credit crunch, debt, Gordon Brown, mortgages
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