tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4611157281567615666.post186175477179452676..comments2023-12-27T13:19:38.184+00:00Comments on BellgroveBelle: Norwegian generosityBellgroveBellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02011429534354744636noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4611157281567615666.post-87875211380071558852009-04-05T16:50:00.000+01:002009-04-05T16:50:00.000+01:00Montague Burton my learned friend,don't you often ...Montague Burton my learned friend,<BR/>don't you often wonder who Gordon Brown is borrowing all this money from, which he claims he is using to repair the damage to the economy (caused by Thatcherite-New Labour de-regulated free-market reforms lets not forget)?<BR/><BR/>It must be the banks - or at least, the ones who didn't take any of that welfare-state-for-the-rich, neoliberal guff, spouted by Thatcher-Major-Blair-Brown seriously.<BR/><BR/>If any banks and financial institutions did take the Thatcherite-New Labour-Reagonomics seriously, then they would be out of buisness by now, or looking for welfare handouts from taxpayers because they don't actually take the idea of a 'free-market' seriously themselves.<BR/><BR/>I did read somewhere that PM Brown is borrowing money (from banks!) using New Labour's Credit Card 'PFI', charged at credit card rates no doubt.<BR/><BR/>Typical. The general public are repeatedly forced to fork out squillions and all they'll have to show for it at the end of the day are vast debts and a bunch of failed banks!<BR/><BR/>The thing is,<BR/>who is going to pay back all this borrowed money if we don't have it in the first place to pay back, with the usual rates of interest attached into the bargain?<BR/><BR/>I thought that is what got all of us into this economic mess in the first place - money being loaned to people and institutions that don't have the wherewithal to pay it back?<BR/><BR/>Sorry for going on.<BR/><BR/>all the best BB.<BR/><BR/>ps<BR/>The latest instalment of another of my fave bloggers -<BR/><A HREF="http://indygalgoestoholyrood.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Indygal Goes to Holyrood!</A>joe90 kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15925893894108250518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4611157281567615666.post-87258098361343469412009-04-05T11:46:00.000+01:002009-04-05T11:46:00.000+01:00Excellent article Belle, what a delicious irony if...Excellent article Belle, what a delicious irony if Brown ended up being bailed out by Norwegian oil money.Administratorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17028259430483576141noreply@blogger.com