If it’s not already bad enough having Gordon Brown in charge of the country, we’ve now had to listen to him blithely announce he’s giving away £500 billion of taxpayers money to the banks.
I thought the US bailout was sickening, but now it’s happened in my own country, I’m even more incensed. Why the hell should you and I pay for private banks to stay in business?
If I owned a small business and then got in trouble, could I hold my hand out to the Government? I could, but they’d tell me where to shove it, and rightly so. But banks are getting given the money supposedly for the good of the country.
The biggest question I have is: Where the hell is this money coming from? Why wasn’t that obviously spare $1 trillion spent on hospitals, schools, care homes for the elderly, or even tax cuts for us all?
