You need quantitative easing just to combat fiscal squeezing
When your interest rates are lower than the floor
You won't find a lot of thankers if you trust it all to bankers
Who will only spend it all and ask for more
Now your growth rates cannot dazzle with exchange rates on the frazzle
And there isn't any chance to turn them round
So if confidence is waning and the credit lanes are straining
Don't be tied to those whose fate is downward bound
Please don't think that you can phone us for the cash to pay a bonus
For a man who lost the lot and wore a smile
'Cause we know he cannot park it in this most unfriendly market
He will have to live on earnings for a while!
You may find that we are snarling for the head of dear old Darling
Though if truth be told it's more to do with Brown
For he boasted and he fussed that he'd ended boom and bust
But the markets still keep bouncing up and down
They will borrow till we're screaming although this is in their scheming
That the bill won't land until their cause is lost
So you know that they will fiddle for an answer to the riddle
For it's only us poor voters bear the cost
Never mind that all is ruin for they know what they are doin'
They've a very solid pension guarantee
For it doesn't seem to matter that while madder than a hatter
Gordon Brown stole pension cash from you and me
So just carry on your groaning at the way the banks are moaning
That they hedged it all with billionaires abroad
Now it turns out (oh how shocking!) they are reeling and they're rocking
Didn't know that "cash for free" must be a fraud!!!
Author notes
Alastair Darling is the British Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) following on from Gordon Brown now our Prime Minister but had Darling's job under Tony Blair. He famously claimed that he had ended "boom and bust" and was now going to save the World. He also funded his first dose of overspending by double taxing private sector pensions.
I'm sure most of you can guess at the names of the foreign billionaires our oh so careful bankers invested in ...
Please tell me honestly what you think, good or bad.
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Wow, such great work that has been created here, verry verry good my dear, Keep writting .
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Just popped in, bro. I still have a lot of reading to do and I won't be properly back for a wee while yet. But I had to show my appreciation for this.
We stand amidst the utter ruins of capitalism, and yet at the next election we will vote in another right-of-centre government. How clever we are!
Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
What he neglected to say, and what every politician knows, is that you can usually fool ENOUGH of the people ENOUGH of the time.
Thank you for penning a wonderfully satirical poem, you dear, old, soggy Tory you!
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The biggest problem, as Douglas Adams brilliantly highlighted is that only totally unsuitable people want the job!
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Well we're probably just singing to a cat.
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I'm from far across the pond. I also grew up on Gilbert and Sullivan. You remind me of them here! I love this!
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There is no higher praise!
Thank-you.
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damn bunnies LOLOL
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And we all go down with the ship lol but we will wear the same stiff upper lip...cos we can't do much about it
midst the cry of 'let us out him' so we will satirise the government with whip!
C
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