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Politics Bolitics

Excuse the fact that I’ve not posted in ages - I’ve been busier than a one-legged cat covering up its own shit.

Since that last time I’ve turned 25, which is a wonderful feeling. It’s not actually, it feels completely the same as 24, 23, 22, 21…except I finally have pubic hair. Rejoice.

Today I’ll be taking another pop at Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling (like I did about Northern Rock earlier this year), for they are a couple of shits of the first class order.

Let’s take a look at what’s going on in the politics bolitics world of the UK Government:

  • The housing market goes down the toilet, and everyone is automatically supposed to wet themselves at the prospect of living in a house made out of twigs;
       
  • Banks stop lending money to people who should never have been lent money in the first place, leaving nobody with enough money to buy stuff they don’t actually need;
       
  • Alistair Darling reveals that things are going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Everybody panics and start wondering how they will be able to afford their two holidays a year and extra car;
       
  • Alistair Darling reveals that there won’t be enough money for the current generation’s pensions when they reach 65, but nobody cares as they are pissed/off their head on coke/a paedophile/rapist/serial killer/gang member/insert own generational stereotype here.

Really, it’s all a big bunch of bollocks.

The housing market has been due a correction for quite some time now, so for anyone to be surprised that it’s gone tits up is just stupid. Did anyone with any real intelligence seriously believe that prices could keep on going up, whilst salaries have hardly increased at all? Come on now!

As for the banks stopping lending, again we need to put on the common sense hat for a minute. If you can’t afford to buy something, DON’T FUCKING BUY IT! Save up for it and you’ll appreciate it a whole lot more - this whole "want it now" attitude is incredibly childish and idiotic.

Of course things will get worse before they get better, but will they get worse for the likes of Darling and Brown who are each probably making around £100,000 a year? I think not.

The pensions thing is another thing that shouldn’t be that much of a surprise, as the Government would rather spend £100,000 on the Prime Minister’s website (proof) than improve anything that anyone actually uses. Here was me thinking that being able to live was more important than a website - how wrong I am.

Sadly things will more than likely never change, even if/when the Conservatives get into power. I really can’t see how someone different can turn around a country that has nothing to offer in terms of value - we don’t produce anything of importance, our public services are an embarrassment, we’re totally overpopulated, and there will simply never be enough money to go around.

These are the facts, whether anyone wants to admit it or not, and we have to live with them - or leave.

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