Never a rabid protester in the past, and never one to kick up much of a fuss in public…
I wanted to express my disgust at the mess the bankers and politicians have created for us yet again, and went along to lend a bit of support to the G20 protests in the City of London yesterday.
An ordinary, middle-aged, working-class white male, wanting to try and change things for the better in my own small way. After all, it’s a democracy we live in, isn’t it? Aren’t we supposed to be good citizens and participate in the decision-making process rather than sit at home in front of the telly, never voting and never taking part as full members of the society in which we live?
When it comes to the next General Election, they’ll be imploring us to vote and take part, maybe even collect us and give us a lift to the polling station to get our vote. They LIKE us to care about our country and get involved, don’t they? Or is that only when it suits them?
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So we’re told that the police expect a ‘summer of rage’ against spiralling unemployment, bankers and the failure to protect British jobs from immigrants and foreigners.
Well, let’s make it sooner than that and have an early summer this year, shall we?
And while we’re at it, how about protesting against the vulture capitalism of bankers and financiers, screwing British citizens and then expecting us to pay for its mistakes?
Watch this space for events.
He never gives up, does he?
Tory ‘call me Dave’ Cameron – descended from King William IV – really thinks that the way to curry favour with the British public is to play the ‘lower, lower!’ game on bank bonuses. Dave is trying to underbid the government on the banks’ bonus payout shambles, which just shows once again what a vacuous political opportunist he is.
Keeping in favour with banking fatcats, underpaid bank staff (can’t believe we said that) AND the British taxpayer & voter must be a real dilemma. Give it a few hours, though, and no doubt that dynamic Scottish duo (surely some kind of oxymorons…) Brown and Darling will come back with an even lower bid… let’s cap bonuses at £1000? £50? £4.50? How low can you go and not lose the bank clerk vote, while still retaining any credibility with the rest of us?
The answer to the question about ‘how-much-should-we-allow-them-to-have?’ is NOTHING.
Not for the fatcats. Not for the bank clerks. They’re all still bloody lucky even to have jobs when so many of us HAVE LOST OURS because of their greed and mis-management.
Read the lips, Dave. NOTHING, nada, zilch. Got it now? Pass it on to Gordon and Alistair.
