Skide socialister
De der EmmEssEmm vil da heller ikke andet end trykke latterlige – sikkert fede og grimme – menneskers uforstandige kritik af verdens tilstand. Fatter disse simpletons da ikke, at det som verden har allermest brug for, det er massive skattelettelser til den aller-aller-aller-rigeste del af befolkningen?
Social historians will record this week as one when unhappy shoppers began discussing the potential collapse of western capitalism in the same breath as butter prices. The credit crunch that began in the US came home to roost in the UK with Lloyds TSB’s government-sanctioned rescue bid for Halifax Bank of Scotland.
The realisation that Britain’s biggest mortgage lender had risked insolvency has shifted the public mood. Before, perplexity predominated. Now many ordinary people are angry with the bankers they regard as having blown national prosperity on the roll of a dice.
Anger erupted from Israel Rainford, a young black man, one of about 50 people interviewed by the FT over the past two days. Mr Rainford, who was visiting a Birmingham job centre, said: “It’s the fault of the bankers that we are where we are. They were stupid. They should have had more reserves.” For two years, he earned £24,000 a year as a painter on building sites. A fortnight ago, he was made redundant. “They said it was the recession.” Now he gets £47 a week Jobseeker’s Allowance. He pointed to a gleaming Mercedes gliding by: “Look at the money that is still around.”
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