Barclayman finally gets whats coming to him - our money!

Has the world gone completely MAD? All this Credit Crunch Stuff. Even my 12 year old said last week, “You know – I’ve had enough of this Credit Crunch Stuff – they should stop it now”. Out of the mouths of babes and 12-year olds…..

So today, if I want to, I can march off to Barclays and ask nicely for a mortgage and they will borrow MY money from Lloyds and lend it back to me and charge me interest for the privilege. Now do you see where I’m coming from? Thievin’ B******ds!

For years fat cat Bankers with a “B” have looked down their noses at the rest of us and lectured us on how, where and what we should do with our money while they have been merrily borrowing money from each other, lending it to “Scallies”  in Merseyside Tower Blocks who have more intention of giving the hubcaps back to the rightful owner than they have of ever paying the loan back. The Bankers with a “B” then keep those debts on their Asset Register while drawing bloody great bonuses for being so clever. You almost want to shout a huge “Gottcha you thievin’ b*****ds” but wait a minute, no we haven’t because you and me have been stupid enough to invent some more money and give it to them so they can start again where they left off. Farcical! How can we invent £50 billion pounds when it suits us and can’t fund Cancer treatment because budgets won’t run to it. Not too many mention of budgets now is there? Where is all this money coming from then? No one has successfully explained that to my satisfaction. I also notice that the PM, when asked whether he would be stopping the criminal bonuses these people pay themselves, says what? - He waffles on about levels of bonus being “appropriate” and linked to “enterprise” and “hard work”. What is he really saying is “No mate, I’ve not managed to do anything at all to stop them doing whatever they want with all the money you are throwing at them”.

So does Grumpy have an answer? Well yes, I do actually. We will bale you Bankers with a “B” out but we don’t want a pathetic bit of a share of the bank – we want the lot. Nationalise them. Run them in a properly accountable way for the benefit of everyone in society. Then, when they are all showing nice profit roll them all up into one and call it the Co-op Bank. We will need to follow this through by nationalising all sorts of other unprofitable things such as coal, steel, fuel and all Premiership football teams then give our new society a new name like……..well as it’s a sort of commune we could perhaps call it ………Communism. Oh, well perhaps not. The greatest British trait is the ability to think something through before committing ourselves. Never mind - full Marx for trying Grumpy.