Well, what now?

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Well, what now?

This is November 5, there are fireworks outside and the day is appropriate for thinking about blowing up politicians. Our politicians, nobody else's. When I saw and heard this morning the joyful whoops of our own Tories because an extreme left-wing socialist (so far as we know but more anon) has been elected in the United States I announced that I was on a mission to destroy that party. A friend asked me whether they needed my help. Possibly not, but I am happy to supply it.

Since then I have calmed down a bit, noted that the final results in America are not quite as bad as we had feared (I am talking about Congress now) and I can now start thinking more or less rationally. (OK, stop sniggering at the back.)

The rest, a call for battle, so without any distracting illustrations, is onEUReferendum 2.

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One is not amused

The Queen – or so The Daily Telegraph tells us - has demanded to know why no one saw the financial crisis coming. 

During a briefing by academics at the London School of Economics on the turmoil on the international markets she asked: "Why did nobody notice it?"

Professor Luis Garicano, director of research at the London School of Economics' management department, had explained the origins and effects of the credit crisis when she opened the £71 million New Academic Building.

Prof Garicano later said: "She was asking me if these things were so large how come everyone missed it." He told the Queen: "At every stage, someone was relying on somebody else and everyone thought they were doing the right thing."

And so did we have the makings of a Right Royal ****-**, for which absolutely no one is prepared to take responsibility - while the guilty men get bonuses.

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