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| Letters From London |
| Humorous Views on London Culture, Royals, Gossip and Politics |
Money for Nothing - 8 November 2009
I may be speechless, but the boys in power have quite a lot to say regarding their moral
certitude.
One of the many disgraced MPs, Conservative David Wilshire, who was forced to resign after
paying more than £100,000 of our money into his own company, is certain the “witch hunt” to
clean up the mess made by greedy MPs “will undermine democracy”. Silly me. I didn’t know we
had a democracy. I thought it was a plutocracy. Let’s pop them into the Thames loaded down
with massive rocks and see if they float….
The Idiot Wilshire didn’t stop there: “Branding a whole group of people as undesirables led to
Hitler’s gas chambers”. Hmmm. Eugenics employed to MPs?
Whilst Wiltshire was pontificating on the injustices of commonly held ethics, Labour peer Lord
Morris has been skulking around in the home he doesn’t live in with knees bent and head down.
Lord Morris of Manchester has been eating, sleeping and lying for 27 years in south London,
while squeezing £100,000 from the peasants’ coffers to subsidize his primary home away from
his primary home. Neighbours never saw him – because he was always ‘at the back of the
property’. In the garden shed? Tied to a post like a rabid dog? Camping in the tall grass? “I
wouldn’t be, as it were, at the front of the property, I’d be at the back. We are absolutely at
home there.” The lord’s son ‘lives’ there when he wants to watch football matches. The house is
at the end of a cul-de-sac….
It’s a £12 billion miracle. Lloyd Blankfein, the boss of Goldman Sachs, the most powerful bank in
the world is offering himself up for sainthood as he doles out the money miracle in salaries and
naturally those well-deserved bonuses. He believes that banks serve “a social purpose…and do
god’s work”.
Where to start…where to start…at record profits, at the average pay, at Blankfein’s payoff?
£1.9 billion the third quarter of this year? The £420,000 bonus for the 30,000 staff? Or the £12
million that is added to Blankfein’s £300 million shares.
Blankfein’s ‘social purpose’ and ‘god’s work’ is so that “we can help companies…that create
wealth…that create more growth and more wealth…everybody should be happy.”
I’d imagine most people would like to bludgeon the creepy arrogant twit with a gold-plated
crucifix. Perhaps Mr Blankfein should put his money where his mouth is and give it all to charity,
don a hairshirt and live in a cave. Then we can roll a massive rock over the opening and wait
three days for the miracle…. Oh my god.
I may be speechless, but the boys in power have quite a lot to say regarding their moral
certitude.
One of the many disgraced MPs, Conservative David Wilshire, who was forced to resign after
paying more than £100,000 of our money into his own company, is certain the “witch hunt” to
clean up the mess made by greedy MPs “will undermine democracy”. Silly me. I didn’t know we
had a democracy. I thought it was a plutocracy. Let’s pop them into the Thames loaded down
with massive rocks and see if they float….
The Idiot Wilshire didn’t stop there: “Branding a whole group of people as undesirables led to
Hitler’s gas chambers”. Hmmm. Eugenics employed to MPs?
Whilst Wiltshire was pontificating on the injustices of commonly held ethics, Labour peer Lord
Morris has been skulking around in the home he doesn’t live in with knees bent and head down.
Lord Morris of Manchester has been eating, sleeping and lying for 27 years in south London,
while squeezing £100,000 from the peasants’ coffers to subsidize his primary home away from
his primary home. Neighbours never saw him – because he was always ‘at the back of the
property’. In the garden shed? Tied to a post like a rabid dog? Camping in the tall grass? “I
wouldn’t be, as it were, at the front of the property, I’d be at the back. We are absolutely at
home there.” The lord’s son ‘lives’ there when he wants to watch football matches. The house is
at the end of a cul-de-sac….
It’s a £12 billion miracle. Lloyd Blankfein, the boss of Goldman Sachs, the most powerful bank in
the world is offering himself up for sainthood as he doles out the money miracle in salaries and
naturally those well-deserved bonuses. He believes that banks serve “a social purpose…and do
god’s work”.
Where to start…where to start…at record profits, at the average pay, at Blankfein’s payoff?
£1.9 billion the third quarter of this year? The £420,000 bonus for the 30,000 staff? Or the £12
million that is added to Blankfein’s £300 million shares.
Blankfein’s ‘social purpose’ and ‘god’s work’ is so that “we can help companies…that create
wealth…that create more growth and more wealth…everybody should be happy.”
I’d imagine most people would like to bludgeon the creepy arrogant twit with a gold-plated
crucifix. Perhaps Mr Blankfein should put his money where his mouth is and give it all to charity,
don a hairshirt and live in a cave. Then we can roll a massive rock over the opening and wait
three days for the miracle…. Oh my god.
