Gordon Brown, Drunken Gamblers and General Elections

I haven’t really commented on the second banking bailout. Mainly because I can’t really get my head around just how insane it all sounds. I keep on thinking that I must have misread something, or misunderstood what I read, or had some sort of mental breakdown and slipped into a reality where the government has less economic sense than a dead pigeon. But no, it does appear that our government really is going for the definition of throwing good money after bad.

Part of me wants to find a silver lining in this second bailout plan. After all, the idea is just so bad that there must be some good coming from it somewhere. The closest I have got to finding that silver lining is that Gordon Brown won’t be able to go on spending our money forever. Because that money will simply run out. So the silver lining I’ve found is that this second banking bailout may lead to Britain going bust. To be honest, as silver linings go, this one really isn’t great. In fact, it makes me want to take all of my money out of the bank and put it under my mattress. And stock up on canned goods.

The absolute insanity of Brown’s behaviour* is staggering. It must be abundantly clear to most people now that the first banking bailout did not work. So what does the government do? Follows the age-old prescription for madness – it does the same thing, but expects a different result. But calling Brown mad is done so often now that it is a veritable cliché. To me, Brown now resembles a drunken gambler in a bookie’s. He’s put a lot of money on a horse that doesn’t come through for him. But rather than accepting the loss and moving on, he staggers back to the counter and puts even more money on the same horse. Even though the race has been run and lost.

Just weeks ago, those claiming that the UK might go broke could be dismissed as tin foil hat wearing paranoids. Now, they look quite sage. But whatever happens, this second bailout – actually, fuck it, let’s state exactly what this is: the part nationalisation of the financial sector – will further cripple this country in the future with massive, unmanageable debt. Gordon Brown is literally mortgaging our future. His behaviour and his policies are utterly, utterly terrifying.

And yet the British people – the poor fuckers whose money is being spent by this terrible abortion of an administration – have no say on what is happening. There is only one way to redress this problem: this country needs to have a General Election. Now.

The British people must be consulted on whether they feel Brown’s ludicrous policies are acceptable or not. We need to have a say on what Gordon Brown is doing, because the ramifications of his policies are going to affect every man, woman and child in this country. And before we forget, the electorate has had no say whatsoever on Brown or his policies. At the last election, the British people voted** for Tony Blair to run the country in strong economic times, with an ambitious yet contained spending programme. We now have Gordon Brown running the economy in one of the worst recessions in living memory – and spending his way through it like there is no tomorrow. Gordon Brown is fucking this country and its economy up good and proper; no-one in this country, barring the Nu Labour drones in the House of Commons, has been allowed to have any say on his outrageous and destructive policies.

So spread the word. Mr Brown, we want a General Election. Now.

*And make no mistake about this, it is Brown doing this – his badger faced cunt of a Chancellor just follows Brown’s lead, like a crippled dog needing to be put down urgently.
**Actually, a minority of them, as it turns out.