Wednesday, 4 March 2009

PRIVATE EYE 1230    20.2- 5.3.09


BANKERS' CONSPIRACY

Show trial opens in Westminster

Comrades across the nation will have gazed in horror and disgust at 
the sight of the hated "Gang of Four" bankers publicly confessing 
their errors in front of a tribunal composed of People's 
Representatives.

One by one, these maggot-parasites who had been gorging themselves on 
the rotting flesh of the capitalist system, abased themselves before 
the tribunal, as with trembling voices they read o=ut their 
statements in which they admitted they had done nothing wrong.

Just listen to their recital of their crimes against the people.

Comrade Lord Stevenson (ex-Chairman of HLOSS):  I wish to make the 
most sincere and profound apology to this Committee for any errors I 
may have made due rntirely to the global meltdown which no one could 
have seen coming, particularly not myself.

Comrade Lord Shred of Wheat (ex-Chairman of ROBS)  I wish to say how 
profoundly I regret my many errors as chairman, which resulted in the 
loss of a great deal of money by a great many Comrades, not the least 
of whom was myself when the share price collapsed, my bonus 
disappeared and I got the boot. (sobs)

Comrade Andy Pandy (HLOSS):  I profoundly regret having to appear 
before the Committee and I am deeply sorry that I been put to all the 
trouble coming here today to answer all these impertinent questions 
about my salary and well earned bonus, the exact size of which is not 
in any way your concern.

Comrade Sir Jock McCockup (ROBS):I am very, very sorry for whatever 
it is that I have been asked to say that I am sorry for, and hope 
that we can now get on with the important task of rebuilding my 
conservatory  after the damage it suffered at the hands of the recent 
'snow event'.   (Surely ' rebuilding the British economy after the 
damage it suffered at the hands of the bankers'? - Ed)

What a picture of abject contrition these pitiful confessions conjure 
up!

One afterr another we saw these one-time 'masters of the universe' 
grovelling before the nation, as they admitted some of the gravest 
crimes ever committed against the British people  - crimes which, as 
they made abundantly clear, were solely and entirely their own 
responsibility , and nothing to do with myself at any time or in any 
way whatsoever.  Gordon Brown, Supreme Leader