Gits in Ermine

Talking of management, our Chancellor is Lord Paul. He's listed in Private Eye, the satirical/investigative magazine as 'non-domiciled' for tax reasons. Essentially, this means that he's got a place in the House of Lords (unelected), voting on affairs of state, and leading this august institution, while telling the authorities that he needn't pay tax in this country because he doesn't live here. I wonder how he manages to get any work done, and how he squares influencing the country without paying his way. What an example to us all.

He is for ID cards, opposes action to tackle climate change, doesn't mind hunting and appears not to like our homosexual friends. A fine example to our students.

Never mind the MPs - look what's happened to science

What happens when capitalist governments get their hands on the nation's science work? Greedy bastards get rich and science suffers, that's what (as George Monbiot summarises).

Bankers, the lot of them

The greedy bastards who bankrupted us while raking in billions to stash offshore are threatening to leave the country because taxes have been increased to pay for bailing the banks out - Steve Bell nails these destructive, selfish gits:

This is infuriating - Cameron's announcing 'the age of austerity' as though government waste has ruined us all. It hasn't. Saving the banks (Tories all) has sunk us, but Cameron's desperate not to mention his commitment to finance capitalism. It's such lazy, reactionary politics to blame big government for shortfalls - very Reaganite 1980s. We all like schools, decent hospitals and state pensions - let's be proud of paying for them.

Personally I'd have protected depositors and allowed the institutions to crash, but Brown et al decided this wouldn't be good for the economy. If goverment cutbacks are required: ID cards, nuclear weapons, the armed services in general, Department for Business (fewer businesses - fewer bureaucrats required to kiss their arses), properly nationalise trains rather than pay extortionate subsidies to franchises.