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The Daily Tremble is a-buzz with what it calls 'Clegg's Power Grab'. No, it's not one of those funfair things, full of stuff nobody needs with the little crane that never catches a damn thing anyway. The Tremble is incensed that the Clegginator now has more authority than Count Mandelstein used to have.They seem to have missed a detail or two.The Clegginator is half of the Cleggeron. The left half. He and the Cameroid (the other left half) operate as independent beings except at full moon, when they combine, Transformer-like, into a ghastly multi-limbed creature that has the EU flag tattooed on its forehead. Sometimes, for variety, they turn into a truck instead. Biodiesel, naturally.As the leader of the smaller half of the coalition, and as the Deputy Prime Monster, the Clegginator is supposed to be in on the workings of Government. It is, after all, his job.Most of all, the one detail the Tremble glosses over in the interests of cheap sensationalist headlines... the Clegginator was elected.Count Mandelstein was not only unelected, he was fired from Government three times and was still in charge. So I think it only right that the Clegginator exerts greater authority than Count Mandelstein ever did.In a truly just world, the tea-boy would have had more authority than a thrice-disgraced nightspawn with the morals of Vlad the Impaler and the looks of a B-movie vampire. We haven't been living in a just world. I hope we are approaching one but I'll just have to wait and see.I'm not holding my breath. Makes it hard to smoke.
Depressing but prolly true... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7756684/Nouriel-Roubini-said-said-the-bubble-would-burst-and-it-did.-So-what-next.htmlOne of the comments however .... QuoteMid 1994, I regaled dinner parties by saying: banks bust and would go bankrupt; labour would seize power via lies and bankrupt UK. When no-one listened, I closed my bank account, cancelled all my cards and quit UK. It's so simple! Consumer debt per person UK - unsustainable. Banks, trading floors, hired screaming spivs to gamble with other people's money. Add a decline in morality, truth, honesty, hard work, talent, education. What's missing now in UK? Same values - honesty, truth, talent, meritocacy etc. Banks believe they got away with it. Govt - focuses on PR-spin good ratings, keeping power. No sign of any leader on lines of Martin Luther King or Charlemagne. So, I'll stay put in sunny Saudi for next few years. p.s. watch Mandy and Deripaska. The next mega scandal.
Mid 1994, I regaled dinner parties by saying: banks bust and would go bankrupt; labour would seize power via lies and bankrupt UK. When no-one listened, I closed my bank account, cancelled all my cards and quit UK. It's so simple! Consumer debt per person UK - unsustainable. Banks, trading floors, hired screaming spivs to gamble with other people's money. Add a decline in morality, truth, honesty, hard work, talent, education. What's missing now in UK? Same values - honesty, truth, talent, meritocacy etc. Banks believe they got away with it. Govt - focuses on PR-spin good ratings, keeping power. No sign of any leader on lines of Martin Luther King or Charlemagne. So, I'll stay put in sunny Saudi for next few years. p.s. watch Mandy and Deripaska. The next mega scandal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8023549/Lord-Mandelson-still-paid-8600-a-month-by-EU.html
