Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Modern Way

Today, we learned that the UK most likely will lose its coveted AAA credit rating.


This is Billy Bunter, the archetypical greedy, loutish, selfish, fat public schoolboy, destined never to work a day in his life, but to make his living playing with other people's money and livelihoods.


And this is George Osborne, the archetypical greedy, loutish, selfish, fat public schoolboy, who really has never worked a day in his life, but whose sole purpose in life now is to play about with other people's money and livelihoods.

The difference between the two is that Billy Bunter is a cartoon character, and George Osborne is the current Chancellor of Exchequer - that's British for Tim Geithner.

In case anyone's wondering, the Conservative Party here in the UK is the soul sister of the Republicans, and don't let that nice David Cameron fool you. Were he American, he'd back Santorum, and you can see what his policies have wreaked here.

And this is the modern way ...

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