Friday, Sep 26, 2008
Gordon the hypocrit wants to put the age of financial irresponsibility behind himself!
Times: Gordon Brown: time to end the age of financial 'irresponsibility'
Gordon Brown today called for an end to the “age of irresponsibility” in the financial sector, his most frank acknowledgment so far the City was allowed to run wild while he was Chancellor.
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1. renting2 said...
Not just the City, the Government have been just as reckless and feckless with the 'bottomless' tax pot.
2. plato said...
Stable.............Door.................Bolt
3. shipbuilder said...
Hilarious, Gordo's like a fish thrashing about in the bottom of the boat, suffocating to death. I predict it will get pitiful toward the end, like having a big, dumb, drooling dog put down.
4. renting2 said...
Agreed shipbuilder, but the big, dumb, drooling dog is going to chew all the furniture to bits and c**p on all the carpets before he goes.
5. mountain goat said...
Pretty rich from a man who prided himself on keeping London less regulated than New York. Do the honourably thing and retire Crash, I am sure your friends in big banking have a nice job for you.
6. icarus said...
Let's forget finance for a minute and look at other ways in which it can be shown that Blair and Brown were/are Bush's bitches.
1. Why has the UK so much surveillance equipment (e.g. one surveillance camera for every 14 people). It has little to do with hunting terrorists, everything to do with providing a market for the anti-terrorist industry that has mushroomed in the US and Israel since 9/11. On the US side this was another gift by Bush to his buddies - hundreds of billions of tax dollars each year to private contractors, much on a no-competition basis, for providing security 'solutions' to a variety threats including smallpox attacks. You start with surveillance cameras, then you need somebody or something to watch hundreds of millions of hours of footage, so you need analytic software that matches the people on the tapes with images in a database. Then you need digital image enhancement because the people on the tapes are rushing about and you can't see them clearly. Then, with inputs from these cameras, plus inputs from other forms of snooping, you need information management and data mining systems and systems that connect all these images, words and numbers and identify suspicious activity. Israeli surveillance systems are used on London's underground, Heathrow and Glasgow airports (hokum systems to profile bad people, not bad things). London metropolitan police use US company International Security Instructors, an Israeli company installed the security system at Buckingham Palace and so on.
2. Monsanto, a US company, is doing unspeakable things to our food supply - far worse than most people think (evidence at
http://www.thenhf.com/articles/articles_772/articles_772.htm
The UK was more pro-GM food than the rest of Europe and commissioned Dr Arpad Pusztai to design safety testing protocols. He concluded that any genetic engineering of food was carcinogenic and inhibited the growth of major organs in humans. His work was praised by the director of the institute where he worked. The director then received a phone call from 10, Downing Street (Blair) and Pusztai was dismissed on the spot, his work was shelved and he was the target of a smear campaign that promoted GM food. Similar things have happened to scientists working in this area in the US.
This is the kind of government with which we're dealing.
7. shipbuilder said...
See, icarus, that's just the kind of post that makes it worth coming here.
8. Prof said...
Shouldn`t the comment "therefore I quit" follow that headline ?
9. japanese uncle said...
People, is it not time that we realised the truth. Crash G was praised by the Tories and all mainstream media as the best Chancellor in generations in return for his submission of the IR decisions to the BoE. That's all, period. Has there been any other mentionable merits (from his masters' point of view) attributable to this man (though I know IR decision and the 'independence' of central banks is the key to total manipulation of the economy, purposefully causing boom and bust).
10. renting2 said...
icarus - totally agree with your point 2. Never even considered your point 1.
11. it_is_going_with_a_bang said...
"Gordon Brown: time to end the age of financial 'irresponsibility'"
Well said Gordon, now please shut the door on the way out. Hand the keys in before you leave if you don't mind.
12. icarus said...
Thanks shippy.
renting2 - can't say I'm an expert on point 1 but we all know there's a lot more to the 'special relationship' than meets the eye. I'm just joining a few dots here.
13. paul said...
icarus, I don't believe GM food is a conspiracy. that surveillance paranoia also provides millions of jobs believe it or not for peripheral businesses.
Cynical? yes. Pragmatic? I'm afraid so. Right? No.
For example, Israel is one of the number one companies in software security in the world. No prizes for guessing why. It's not nice, but it puts food on the tables of many millions of ordinary workers (who incidentally are not part of an NWO conspiracy for the most part). That doesn't make what Israel does okay
Not nice, but neither is real life.
14. planning4acrash said...
This man should do the respectable thing and put himself in the village stocks, so that we could show him, with pow, some of the month's cider apples in all their juiceful glory. Remind him that there is more to the economy than fiat nonsense, and, Maybe the apple juice could even do his torrid complexion some good?!
15. charlie brooker said...
icarus, it wasn't enough for the Illuminati, through their foot soldiers like Murdoch, to bring about a dumbed down culture reducing large numbers of people to bovine morons, they had to bring about a climate of fear in which people felt afraid to express their opinions lest the finger of suspicion was pointed at them.
The ID card system is totally unnecessary - I actually already know who I am so I don't need a card thanks - and the whole thing has been thought up by IT/Security lobbyists in the US as way to extract large fees from the UK taxpayer.
Instead of the finger of suspicion being oppressively used to single out members of the public and frighten the rest it should be turned on the very people who are proposing to being the system in; We The People should should point the spotlight on these people and be told everything there is to know them before they are allowed to do it to us.
Heck, how don't we know they guys don't have some connection to some shady Middle Eastern connections just like the Bush family did with the Bin Ladens?
16. Bananasplit said...
Fool of a PM! Throw yourself in the thames next time and rid us of your stupidity!
17. icarus said...
@ paul - who said 'conspiracy' or 'NWO'? I'm talking about corporate control of, or undue influence over, governments. Of course surveillance provides jobs. So what? So does the invasion of Iraq.
Why don't you tell us why Israel is at the forefront of the security industry (it goes beyond just software).
18. braindeed said...
The more i view this emergency, the more I want so see the whole stinking edifice collapse. Brown(and every politician,Tory or Labour, since Mrs T) have been a prisoner to the sentiment of greed. That it was accepted that galloping house price inflation was 'good' and that therefore we were all 'richer' is the reason this country fell for this great Ponzi scheme, with all sorts of essensially non productive schmoozers (like E A's, City paper shufflers etc) slicing their wee bit of pie off......and didn't they like telling us how they 'earned it.
This money racket can't be fixed without all of us bending over to bare our arses to the banking community - I'd like to see it all fail because when everyone feel as helpless as all the poor bastards who flog themselve to death for a pittance wiping up other peoples crap - we may regain some humanity along the way. And wouldn't it be fairer if we all had the same worthless non-existant pensions as those same people . Property Magnates? - let them eat bricks!!