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Les Incompetents

Time for another political rant. I know how popular these are, so I thought I’d take another pop at those idiots who run this country into the ground.

Northern Rock. Two words that should ring a bell with every person living in the UK.

To those of you who don’t know who they are, it’s one of the biggest banks we have - they’ve recently hit hard times and have subsequently been nationalised by the Government. What this means in layman’s terms is that the Government now own Northern Rock.

It seems ridiculous to me that whilst our schools, roads and hospitals are falling apart both Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling think this is a good idea. It seems even more ludicrous when you consider that the entire budget that Scotland has to run on for a year is one-third the amount set aside to bail out a failed bank!

Why is it that banks couldn’t give a toss for Joe Public’s excuses when he gets in trouble, but when it happens to them they expect a handout?

We are talking about potentially writing off upwards of £50bn here! It’s all well and good say that all of this will go back into the public pot when Northern Rock is back on its feet, but remember that this Governement has cocked up every major financial undertaking its ever been in charge of.

"We will, and always have, put the interest of taxpayers first" says Gordon Brown. If this is true, why did the FSA not head of all this crap from happening by stopping Northern Rock from lending money it was never going to pay back? Why did people not trust what their own Prime Minister, unelected I might add, said enough to stop them from emptying their bank accounts?

What about small businesses who run into trouble, where’s their rescue package?

Northern Rock was a private, profit-making company that cocked up on a massive scale.

It’s a pity that so-called intelligent people make decisions that would make an idiot blush.

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