Why I despise politicians

In today's FT, the columnist Martin Wolf highlights a quote from the G20 communique. Here it is in full

“Our unprecedented, decisive and concerted policy action has helped to arrest the decline and boost global demand.”

These disgusting self indulgence is the reason why I despise those bastards who claim to represent us. They are always there to put themselves on the back, but when the shit hits the fan, they are nowhere to be seen.

It brings me to my next point. In Captain Darling's speech yesterday, a self congratulatory piece of drivel that somehow passed as a lecture, he constantly referred to how he wouldn't flinch away from tough decisions, and he kept reminding us about how tough he was. Brown did the same during his Chancellorship, especially at the beginning. Even though the 1992-1997 Tories were a bunch of sleazeball losers, they left a very strong economy, as recognised by Derek Scott, Tony Blair's chief economics advisor, and Lord Healey, former Labour Chancellor. Brown never acknowledged this. He kept repeating in a perfunctory manner that he was going to be tough on tax and spend. He said he was going to be tough on inflation. Well, according to research by the excellent folk at the TaxPayers' Alliance, Gordon Brown has increased taxation in real terms (inflation adjusted) by 50% since 1997, and public spending has doubled, despite no statistical or observable increases in efficiency and productivity.

Indeed, whereas private sector productivity has shot up in the last decade, public sector productivity is falling. He inherited an inflation level on the RPI measure of 2.6%. He groaned that he inherited a situation in which inflation was going to boom again. This was a downright lie, and the Treasury civil servants told him so, but political advantage is far more important to the One Eyed Freak than sound economics. And the people believed him for some reason. There were no inflationary pressures in the system in 1997, and his prognostications about the future if he had not 'dealt with the inflationary problem' were sickening to listen to. A politician was downright lying to satisfy narrow political ends. And just because consumer price inflation has been stable over the last decade, it dosen't mean asset price inflation has. Central banks stupidly decided to target only consumer price inflation and leave assets alone. Ben Bernanke give intellectual justification to this view when he published several papers on the subject before he joined the fraudelent Federal Reserve. I believe in the abolition of central banks, but while we have them, they should do a proper job. House prices boomed in here and the US because of the leaking money supply. It had to spill into somewhere.

Brown has never accepted responsibility for his role in this state caused crisis, despite his fingerprints being all over the crimescene. It has pissed off Lucifer more than anything in the history of this planet, and He will have vengeance. Yet when one piece of information comes out suggesting that the recovery is starting, Brown is all over the place, praising himself for his 'tough and decisive action' in contrast to the 'do nothing Tories.' If only... if politicians did nothing this crisis would be over far quicker. When a politician does something, they compound the errors. But no, the Tories have jumped on the ''must be seen to be doing something' bandwagon, even though all of these bad economic decisions must be purged for the economy to be restored to near equilibrium levels, as the Austrian School recognises. And when some material is released that suggests the recession is still continuing, Brown disappears and his henchman say if he had done nothing, the recession would have been even worse. HOW COULD IT BE EVEN WORSE THAN IT HAS BEEN YOU FUCKING MORON? There is no accountability in our 'democratic' system. Brown is saddling our children with monstrous debts yet he has no mandate to do so. In 2005, Labour only managed to gain the support of 22% of the British population. They have no right to do what they are doing. And guess what? Brown will disappear into the horizon next year with a gold plated pension from his work as a constituency MP, and a yearly payment that is accorded to all ex PM's, whereas the poor folks of Great Britain will be working for the next 50 years whilst paying higher rates of tax when we had no part in what the politicians were doing. And no politician wants to scare the fat Union barons and their ponzi public sector, which could be slashed by half without hitting the supposed important jobs.

I despise these wankers and so should everyone else.