One line for the UK, another line for their friends in power...

When I watched Barack Obama live on late night (UK) BBC TV make his anger shown at the pressure he had been put upon by the far right to drop his healthcare reforms, he announced: "If you want a fight, you can have a fight".

In these days of compromise, it was both thrilling and slightly embasrassing that he'd had to get to this so soon. But he fronted it out, and said he would rip apart the banks so the state could never again be held to ransom by the greed of the society it endorsed. Hardly a cure, but a dose of medicine that was popular with all but the nincompoop,

So when I heard the Radio 4 news that "george osbourne has said he will support Prez Obama's plans to split up the banks" I thought it was an opportunist leap by the greasy Tory beaver to grab a piece of limelight by stating the bleeding obvious. This was a good policy. But then a small search of the clarification of Osbourne's (and indeed the Conservative Party's) support as to the extent of this policy is reported differently worldwide.

Take this report from the Wall Street Journal which pitches George and the Global Banks very much on the same side. To see it, you'll have to click the title of this post as google doesn't want to play cut and paste. He was lying. He no more wants small banks any more than the small cock he already has.

But this kind of detail doesn't matter any more, does it? It's not that we like David or George, we just don't like Gordon. But even under his worse New Labour spin, would GB really be this much of a mealy mouthed lying tosser?


He's pretending to be just like you. He even believes he's just like you. But he isn't.