| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Are the general public warming to Gordon Brown in his handling of the financial crisis? Discuss | |
| Posted by: | Stewart Dean | |
| Date/Time: | 11/10/08 22:45:00 |
| Fraser, I read your rant and I have to admit it sounds like you are trying to deflect the blame from someone or something. The quip about light bulbs lacks substance and sounds like you're distorting something. Let's try a few simple facts. The heads of large organisations get paid a lot more than MPs with a lot less responsibility. Also your comments about holidays and lawmaking really don't ring true to me. So what I'm seeing is someone trying to blame the government for everything. I'm still trying to work out the logic of how parliment can be nationlaised. Oh I see you want independence from Europe. Bad timing on that one. Are you a xenophobe and anti-Europe? Voted for the morons of UKIP maybe? A lover of history - much like good old Boris. Nothing like a bit of classical education to fill you mind with non practical information. Look I don't know who you are but you don't have talk a load of rubbish. We live in a new world (possible a brave new world) where wars no longer work the same way, nationality is becoming a quant idea and where class and race have been replaced by what culture and ideology you come from. We do live in a world where we choose our leaders, you don't like the leader we got but that in no way makes it any form of Despotism. Brown is doing what he can to get us out of what may be a hole that cannot be gotten out of because of a broken economic model where shares have become far too abstracted and are traded far too easily for them to be in check with the reality of the business they represent. In short the blame lies with those who allowed the financial systems to be as they are and those who become complicit in playing the markets based upon making profits based upon little but the price of the share alone. Brown is not to blame but now has the responsibility to do what he can. I am beginning to doubt he can do enough - or anyone can. Your plundering of historic texts certainly isn't adding anything. |