Boy George goes for broke!
As the great, great Bob Dylan sang, “When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose”. George Osborne has now abandoned the world of evidential economics as a lost cause. On the basis that power at any cost is more important than the health of the nation, he peddles any exaggeration, any half-truth, any untruth, plays to any fear. For him and for David Cameron the prize of power is more important than the price we’ll all end up paying for it - the more they fear it slipping from them, the wilder and more detached from reality their claims become.
They shamelessly lure the leaders of our major companies into making idiots of themselves, exposing them to the same ridicule as the our delusional bankers. As the Nation’s favourite politician, the LibDem’s very own Vince Cable, says, “I just find it utterly nauseating all these chairmen and chief executives of FTSE companies, being paid 100 times the pay of their average employees, lecturing us on how we should run the country. I find it barefaced cheek.”
Yes, George Osborne of the party of the Small State and the Big Estates, those average employees, that is bulk of the nation, rightly expects the compassionate support of their Health Service, understands the need for a good and constantly improving Education System. Society - yes, it DOES exist, needs to raise the least fortunate out of poverty, needs to nurture strong families and good parenting, needs to provide security on our streets, and justice in our courts. That’s what our taxes are for, and it’s to protect these and other essential services from the spending reductions that will come, that the slight increase for 2011 in National Insurance is for.
How many of your new candidates, David Cameron, come from a background in Financial Services, bonus junkies high on their annual fix. Nick Clegg said it well, it must be admitted, “We are in the middle of an economic crisis which was created by vested interests, a small clique of people in the banking sector, basically holding a gun to the head of the rest of the British economy.”