British politics has gone a bit nutty at the moment. Everyone is promising to savagely cut.. savagely cut and slash! Despite this, the Labour plans are apparently not sufficient. They aren't planning to slash savagely enough! Alistair "the butcher" Darling just hasn't got it in him. It makes you wonder how he ever got that nickname in the first place..
We're all ignoring the elephant in the room here though. On boxing day Silvio and I were getting on famously. Late in the day, as he was leaving, he said to me: "El Capitano! Il Duce! You must tell your leaders to inflate their debt away! Soaring ever higher on an inflated balloon. Fuck the bond market! Capish!".
Well.. I suppose that's easy for him to say, now he services debt at German interest rates.. but perhaps he has a point.. 25% inflation for a few years.. a few strikes here and there.. maybe an IMF loan to top it off.. "Sounds Delish!" as Mandy would probably say.
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ReplyDeleteSo now these government nuts are planning to inflate our massive debt away?! And ride on a massive balloon?! And sinse when has Berlosconi been the Prime Minister?!
ReplyDeleteOh! ho! ho! This really takes the biscuit!
The rot really set in when we started using paper money. Bring back the wooden sixpence!
ReplyDeleteCan't we settle this the good old cockney way? Round the Johanna with a few jars? Get this boy Silvio round and I'll sort him out! I'll cut him good and proper! Knees up mother brown!!
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