Politicians or thieves?

Is it a prerequisite that these days, to become a leading politician all you have to be able to do is smile, use an autocue and present yourself by using soundbites?

Tony Blair was, in my humble opinion, the first to do this, but since then we have Barak Obama, arguably the most powerful man in the world, who in the space of three weeks has enacted the predictable (the closure of Gitmo) and wholly failed to deliver anything but wholesale panic on to the world's financial markets.

But he's not alone. Oh no, Blair, as mentioned above, took it upon himself to change the way we relate to politicians. All of a sudden here were people who we could trust. They smiled, they were enjoying serving us the public, they looked us straight in the eye.......................... and stole our savings.

Yes folks the Nulabour experiment was just that an exercise in daylight robbery. Why does anyone think that the banks on their own are the cause of the current seriously harmful recession? Certainly they, the banks, promulgated the situation but without the complicity of the various governments around the world, those feckless and unemployable borrowers whose motto was "can't pay, won't pay", would never have been given what eventually turns out to be yours and my savings. They'd have been laughed out of the bank/building society. But, and it surely must be so, the banks had no option but to take on these loans, because like the rest of us, they (certainly in the UK) were being screwed by the state to provide more funds, via taxation, levies and general governmental arm twisting and thus it was necessary to show profits based upon sheer fiction.

Are the banks at fault? Definitely but ultimately I blame Lord Tone and his pals, and now America, whilst the events have happened, your Mr Obama is about to sink you too.