Election 2010 Mainstream Parties Shy About Merchant Bankers

Whilst trawling around the search engines looking for informed comment about one of my hot topics right now, merchant bankers and their insatiable greed, I accidentally stepped in an article from the Guardian (as in gatekeeper). Yuk!

Titled, “Why aren’t bankers an election issue?“, I had first thought it was a satirical piece lampooning the content of the non-debates we’ve been suffering over the past two weeks.

But no, Tom Clark (leader writer for the Guardian) was dead serious. He wanted to know why none of the three mainstream political parties have discussed the obscene theft of £1.5trillion (that’s 1.5 thousand billion pounds) from the public purse by the eternal vampire banksters. Well duh!

I mean sorry Tom but are you serious? Come on Tom, why do you think Cameron, Clegg and Mr Pooh have steered well clear of this topic?

I’m going to float something for you Tom, and it won’t be made of the pungent stuff smeared in the pages of the Guardian. Nope, here’s a little diversion into a strange land called reality, the place we never talk about except in hushed tones when the plebs are asleep. The people who live in reality are angry Tom, very angry. Their rage is barely being contained by the impotence that masquerades as representative democracy in this country.

I’ve talked to a bunch of folks about the blood sucking leeches who jostle for window offices in the city. Nobody likes them much. I’ve heard normally mild mannered, middle of the road types suggest all sorts of prolonged and agonising retribution for what these strangely profitable incompetents have committed. Some of it has shocked me, I thought I was the top dog at creating cruel and unusual punishment for the bankster class. It turns out I’m an unimaginative amateur.

Now let’s assume with due cause there will be some form of backlash against the two main parties on May 6th.

Dalek Brown’s collective is viewed as being at the heart of the scandal, they were in the hot seat and opened the vault doors to let the bankster’s make off with the money. Plus the supreme, unelected leader did that whole thing about “prudence” for years and now he’s having a hell (too good for him) of a time convincing the crowd he’s not the incompetent arse of all time.

Cameron’s mob has been thoroughly unsuccessful at persuading the electorate the gargantuan leeches in the city aren’t directly related to the Tory toffs, probably by birth as well as in philosophy. They are natural bedfellows… hmm, don’t go there!

There’s nothing to be gained for the big two parties by dwelling on this issue and they’ve settled for vague promises of a tax on the banks and lame suggestions that greed is quite naughty and really oughtn’t to be allowed in public. Disgraceful, disgraceful! But how could anyone have possibly known? In private it’s business as usual, no doubt, and it will be in private where the tax evasion scams run night and day.

For the terrible two it’s time to move on rather than dwell on the evidence past. Frame the debate, frame the punishment, let their friends off the hook. That’s what wise guys do for each other Tom.

So you might think this is a golden opportunity for Nick Clegg’s Jamaican bob-sleigh team (Ooh, I really hope they win it,.. bless) to race ahead on the issue. After all, they have a deadly weapon purpose built to cure every economic woe, the all-seeing eye Vince Cable. Oops – he didn’t see that one coming!

Yeah, slight problem. The Lib Dems have been talking shit about the shit they were talking about before the shit they are now talking about during the election campaign. Got that? Vince created a bubble of his own which has burst following a simple review of the record. Damn those newfangled moving picture-majigs.

Besides, the Lib Dems are the third establishment “choice” so they aren’t going to blow their chance by deviating from the path beaten out by the red and blue teams. Whether they’ll tell you or not, they are more than aware they’ll have to deal with banksters and other assorted gangsters if they pull off a miracle. You don’t bite the hand that feeds, not the rich hand anyway. And in his time spent hanging around parliament looking for a job Clegg can’t have failed to hear the rumours about who really runs this country.

Nope, Clegg will play the game and the media will play it with him to ensure the electorate ends up satisfied there was more of the same to choose from in this election. You see, it’s the power of democracy! Present three (but certainly no more) pre-selected candidates instead of two. Stick them on TV. Brand X is a bag of shit, Brand Y a smarmy bell boy laden down with Maggie’s luggage and the all new Brand Z – well now, looks like we got us some real change people! The old system is dead, long live the new version of the old system!

Okay so I have a cynical and depressing view of this election. It’s not my fault I’m right though. Go and blame the three stooges.

Now Tom, we both know that if the leaders were really pissed with the banks and intended to do anything about them we’d be hearing all about creating money out of thin air and charging un-payable interest on it. The special sauce of economics, so to speak.

We’d be hearing about how the £1.5trillion doesn’t exist right now but will have to be generated through our labour and the future labour of our kids. We’d be listening outraged as the peoples’ champions clued us in on the great central banking scam. Because if the £1.5trillion doesn’t exist yet but the banks need the money right now – where does the money come from? Debt! And when you want a loan, even if you’re the government, where do you go?

Man I laughed my arse off as I was loading my (metaphorical – we have to be careful what we say in the free world) shotgun. Are you laughing too Tom? They’ve bailed themselves out by lending us the money to give back to them, at interest! It’s a beautiful thing, if you’re a psychopathic, blood-sucking machine of pure evil which, as we all know, is the very definition of your typical merchant banker.

To be fair to you though, Tom. At least you asked the question. The vast majority of your mainstream colleagues aren’t quite so inquisitive. But I guess they are busy playing, “who will overturn the majority here”, or, “can so-and-so hold the margin there”, and all that other total, utter cack that’s chucked at us once every five years in an attempt to fool us into thinking our voice is actually listened to and this isn’t just a meaningless carnival.

Three parties, all the same apart from the flags and bunting, campaigning on one degree deviations on all the minor issues, the TV cameras recording every painfully dull moment in close up (much like they don’t when a real news story comes along), pre-selected audiences pitching soft-balls at dancing puppets. They don’t have time to talk about the banksters Tom! Have a heart!

Anyway, just for you, here’s why the three amigos don’t want to talk about their compadres in the Shitty of London.

The thing is, Tom, if a half-pissed tosser on a blog, like myself, can rustle up a few bits of information from Google and slap a posting like this together, what might you be capable of given the resources at your disposal?

I understand, I don’t have to cross-reference facts (but I do anyway) or mind my manners in case I get hit with a law suit (which would only draw attention to me), nor do I have a boss who tells me what I can and can’t write (nanny is looking into this) or advertisers than can withdraw funding (but I’m willing to enter into any tragically short lived alliance provided there’s a few quid in it). Is it this last point Tom?

Have “they” forced you to ask stupid questions in public for a living? I’m only kidding Tom. We can’t all be serious about democracy and the future of our kids.

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