Oh Get Over Yourself

Polly Toynbee is terribly excited that we are in an ….‘anti-banker, anti-bonus spasm’ Martin Wolf of the FT , she points out last week expostulated: "I am no populist. Yet when I think of the sums earned by those responsible for dumping this mess on the UK taxpayer, it makes even my blood boil." She notes with satisfaction that … The advert for a new chairman of the Bank of England' has been re-advertised, asking for experience in "significant organisations in the private, public or voluntary sectors".
She sees the worlds salvation in closing tax havens and rounds off with a call for a 50% top rate now.
I think Raedwald was quite right , at some point last year any remaining credibility this silly old woman had finally slipped into the night . Week after week a manufactured turning point is reached for with increasing desperation , for Brown , against Brown for Brown like a teeny meeja okey cokey , its fun but hardly serious stuff. A minor spat about bonuses paid with Public money is not a call for world government and state hands on even more of our lives .
Do you know what the truth is about this public anger , it scarcely exists outside the media . Are people furious on the train , watching Eastendres . Nope , and with good reason . Thus far few are unemployed and those who are employed are far better off than they were . No-one except the idiot Brown thought there would be and endless boom and the idea that the world will become “Fair” or that this will in some way do them any good is regarded by most as childish.
The anger will come when taxes have to go up , when services have to be cut and when interest rates have to go up to counter the inflation we are building into the system. At this stage this is all a Press story and most people , quite sensibly divide the daily apocalypse by ten and call it a “Problem”.
Problems are annoying , not a good reason to create a socialist world with Polly Toynbee its leering queen