The Credit Crunch - a few thoughtful remarks.

I feel it is incumbent on all we 'Personality Bloggers' to share our thoughts on the great issues of the day from time to time. Here is a piece that I have penned as an 'op-ed' (sorry for the jargon!!) for the local newsletter of my union (The Beetroot Bottlers and Associated Pickle Workers Thrifty Society). I am rather proud of it and therefore publish it here without alteration. If any more political world wide web site would like to reproduce it then this is freely offered as long as full accreditation is given especially to 'BEBAWTs Magazine'.

"In order to combat the credit crunch - which has been brought on by other bankers refusing to lend our bankers money apparently and is going to cost each of £40,000 as a donation to the banks to solve- I have decided to take another part time job. I do believe we should all rally round in times of national crisis - and when the Government need the money to stop our great British bankers going to the wall -they shall not find me wanting!!

The idea that they might have to manage with only one foreign holiday a year - on top of the skiing trip of course - or that their lovely children might have to eschew St Mongoes trip to The Galapagos hurts me to the core. We do not want our Bankers to go 'naked into the conference chamber' as the great Winston Churchill remarked - now do we?

No. They need to be firmly kitted out in hand made saville row suits so they will be comfey when battling for Britain against all those American and other foreign bankers who won't lend them money. I do not think I am going too far when I compare those great men (and the odd lady to make the tea!) who lead our brave institutions like HBOS and Bradford and Bingley to 'the few' - the great Spitfire and Typhoon pilots of the Battle of Britain (circa 1945).

Like those pilots our great financial whizz kids full of patriotic fervour and without a thought for themselves argue and argue to wring extra loans to keep us all going, from the sinister dwarfs of Wall Street and Geneva (as Jim Callaghan remarked!)

I believe we owe the very food on our tables and rooves over our heads to our 'Battling Bankers' (to coin a phrase which one day may be as famous as Churchills aphorism!) and that even now the Brave City Boys might avert catastrophe! And if it will be so then who can begrudge them a few little luxuries such as giant pensions, golden goodbyes and private jets?! Who will be so unpatriotic and so mean spirited to say they must do without the odd "flaming lamborghini" (whatever that is!) or line of coke to gird their loins??

I say up Boys and at em!!, forward with the 'Battling Bankers' !- The country is behind you! (Apart from snidey Giles who says you are poltroons, crooks and cheats who should be strangled in your own bowels!)"

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