Europe, OMG

it's been fun being part of Europe. The company was wonderful, the food great, the chance to travel unhindered through borders superb, the culture stupendous.

Alas, alas.

However the bankers need looked after. The Square Mile is the most important piece of the whole planet.
What would we do without the income?
Who would we look up to?
How would the political parties be funded?
Who could the politicians be answerable to?
Would the sun still rise?
Would there be any joy in the world?

Apparently Nick Clegg is furious about this. Frankly I don't care how fucking furious he is, it pales into insignificance with my towering rage.

I do not give a shit about the Square Mile. My income is not dependant on that and the bastards will already have stolen my pension before I get it.
I do not give a shit about the right wing raving maniacs in the Tory party.
I don't give a shit about that nasal wee muppet at the front of the Labour party.

I care about the hundreds and thousands who will be unemployed and possibly starving if we are SO INCREDIBLY EGOTISTICAL AND JINGOISTICALLY ARROGANT to think the Americans will even speak to us if we are out of Europe.
I care about the hundreds and thousands who will be unemployed and possibly starving if we are SO INCREDIBLY EGOTISTICAL AND JINGOISTICALLY ARROGANT to think that British agriculture can feed us after 40 years of CAP.
 I care about the hundreds and thousands who will be unemployed and possibly starving if we are SO INCREDIBLY EGOTISTICAL AND JINGOISTICALLY ARROGANT to think that Europe will buy our goods.
 I care about the hundreds and thousands who will be unemployed and possibly starving if we are SO INCREDIBLY EGOTISTICAL AND JINGOISTICALLY ARROGANT to think that the Chinese and Indians will invest in manufacturing in a country which DOESN'T have free trade access in Europe.

We aren't Norway. We squandered the oil massaging Thatchers ego. We aren't Iceland as there isn't a politician in this country with guts.

I live in a country where it is LEGAL to charge 4000% on short term loans.
I live in a country with damn near more CCTV cameras than people.
I live in a country where the USA can demand we hand over citizens who have committed no crime in this country for sentencing into the US dungeons.

If I may offer some gentle advice to our supposed leaders, and maybe a Merchant Bankster will read this,
GET A FUCKING GRIP!
We are a small wet island off the North coast of Europe.
They don't need us.
We sure as hell need them.
Cameron, GET YOUR NOSE OUT THE BANKERS ARSES AND KISS AND MAKE UP WITH THE LITTLE EMPEROR.
If you don't, we haven't got the Generals to win Waterloo again and Blucher/Merkel won't bring the Prussian battalions to save us.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it? Sometimes history can change!

A quiet week?

It’s had the feel of a quiet week this week!

Don’t know why but that’s just how it has come across.

And yet……

Massive strike which either cost the country ½ a billion pounds or was a damp squib (both comments came from David Cameron)

Leveson inquiry heard that phone hacking was rife and seemed to be accepted practice.

COP17 disappeared completely from the news even though 2011 is going down as one of the 10 hottest years on record.

There were floods and gales in Scotland

There is going to be a drought in England.

Unless someone sees sense there is going to be a war with Syria, then Iran and possibly Russia.

And the Euro is collapsing with the possibility of France going bankrupt.

As I said, a quiet week.

When I was a child, many years ago now, a severe weather event was rare. We talked about the snow in 1963 ( first time I ever saw it). We talked about the storm which blew slates off roofs in Glasgow in 1969. We even talked about the long hot summer of 1976, never mind the icy winter of 78.

Those were rare events. Even the 87 big storm which made Sevenoaks Threeoaks and destroyed the whole of civilisation (sorry affected South East England) was rare.

Now we have flooding every year. Landslips on roads have become commonplace. Railways very rarely pulled the service, now it’s common.

There has undoubtedly been a change in climate which NO BUGGER will recognise. The only issues of note seem to be either screw the people who work in the public sector or panic about the possibility of reduced profits in the banks.

We seem as a race to be hell bent on suicide. We are refusing to do anything which might affect “confidence in the markets”. Bankers are quietly, steadily and remorselessly taking over governance in countries round the world. Elected politicians are frankly toothless and ineffective, far more concerned about grovelling to their paymasters than serving the public they were put there to represent. Journalists are either castigating or defending their colleagues who are self evidently indefensible as they have displayed not only immorality and criminal activity on a massive scale, but were also too stupid to not get caught.

A “TV personality” called Jeremy Clarkson said on screen that the strikers “should be taken out and shot in front of their families”. One of the unions involved is apparently looking at legal action. This proves two things. The first is that the guy is a dickwad, though given his previous foot in mouth comments that shouldn’t be a surprise. The second is that no-one seems to have realised that he IS a dickwad and should be ignored with yapping curs.

In the meantime the rain and wind keep coming, more and more people fry starve or die of ignorance, politicians and journalists prove they aren’t up to the task and prices keep rising to increase the bank accounts of the mega rich.

As I said, a quiet week.