An economical assessment of Britain today
\nby cricketjeff on February 21, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nYou need quantitative easing just to combat fiscal squeezing
\nWhen your interest rates are lower than the floor
\nYou won’t find a lot of thankers if you trust it all to bankers
\nWho will only spend it all and ask for more<\/p>\n
Now your growth rates cannot dazzle with exchange rates on the frazzle
\nAnd there isn’t any chance to turn them round
\nSo if confidence is waning and the credit lanes are straining
\nDon’t be tied to those whose fate is downward bound<\/p>\n
Please don’t think that you can phone us for the cash to pay a bonus
\nFor a man who lost the lot and wore a smile
\n‘Cause we know he cannot park it in this most unfriendly market
\nHe will have to live on earnings for a while!<\/p>\n
You may find that we are snarling for the head of dear old Darling
\nThough if truth be told it’s more to do with Brown
\nFor he boasted and he fussed that he’d ended boom and bust
\nBut the markets still keep bouncing up and down<\/p>\n
They will borrow till we’re screaming although this is in their scheming
\nThat the bill won’t land until their cause is lost
\nSo you know that they will fiddle for an answer to the riddle
\nFor it’s only us poor voters bear the cost<\/p>\n
Never mind that all is ruin for they know what they are doin’
\nThey’ve a very solid pension guarantee
\nFor it doesn’t seem to matter that while madder than a hatter
\nGordon Brown stole pension cash from you and me<\/p>\n
So just carry on your groaning at the way the banks are moaning
\nThat they hedged it all with billionaires abroad
\nNow it turns out (oh how shocking!) they are reeling and they’re rocking
\nDidn’t know that “cash for free” must be a fraud!!!<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nAlastair Darling is the British Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister)
\nfollowing on from Gordon Brown now our Prime Minister but had Darling’s job
\nunder Tony Blair. He famously claimed that he had ended “boom and bust” and was
\nnow going to save the World. He also funded his first dose of overspending by
\ndouble taxing private sector pensions.
\nI’m sure most of you can guess at the names of the foreign billionaires our oh
\nso careful bankers invested in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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