How Brown, Blair and Bush, bought over Britain

Anyone, whoever took the time to study modern history, will have heard the story of how the American “fathers” managed to purchase the island of Manhattan for two bottles of whisky and a few brightly coloured beads from the Red Indians. The fact that the island went on to become one of the most expensive pieces of real estate in the World must make that particular piece of business one of the greatest “snow jobs” in history. Yet it is possible to say that what Messrs. Brown, Blair and Bush did to the UK public over the last ten years or so doesn’t fade much by comparison.

Bush and Blair thankfully have been banished to the annals of history, but Brown seems to be hanging on for ever, or at least till the next elections.

And hanging on is the word, and a surprising side of Brown’s nature that we have never seen before is that, nothing seems to embarrass him. The recent round of political scandals, which at least for Brown’s sake, showed that politicians from both of the major UK political parties do have something very similar in common. They have absolutely no compunction in putting their hand in the government cash register to make sure that they are not deprived of even the most obscure form of home comfort, as long as it is at the expense of the British public.

Once the callous thinking behind this fact has been established and verified by the press then anything else seems possible. Were the UK public forced to accept expensive in terms of human lives and money on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which might have been justified as short term military campaigns but certainly have gone on too long and have basically achieved very little. Why did the UK government sit back and do nothing when crude oil prices shot through the roof, Did Bush and his cronies persuade them to sit on their hands and everything would be ok, while the government coffers emptied to pay the oil rich nations their ransom money? And who is to say how much that nasty side of corporate America, who backed George Bush into becoming probably the worst President in American political history made out of that deal.

And when the global financial crisis hit, Blair had already had the foresight to make himself scarce and Bush followed not too long after, as his second term of office slithered to a welcome halt. There is a new broom in the White House and he is sweeping clean. The recovery that is taking place there seems to be genuine, yet one wonders if it can really take such little time.

In the UK, financial recovery seems to be happening too but at a much slower and more cautious pace. If there is a recovery it is certainly not being felt by the majority of the public, who are struggling to survive. Their economic future looks grim for the next twenty years or so, but as is our nature, we seem not to complain about it too much. Instead the focus of attention is why Susan Boyle ( who does look a little like Gordon Brown in drag) didn’t win some pointless talent competition or will a newer, stronger version of Swine Flu come back and kill of half of the global population anyway. So why worry!

In other words, as Brown, Blair and Bush and their political predecessors long since discovered, the public will mostly always believe and accept just about anything you tell them. After all what do Red Indians know about property development?

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