The Incredible Bulk

"Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

We don't like you anyway Gordo but that's beside the point.

PM Gordon Brown has stated that he is "very angry" about bankers receiving bonuses this year, given that the public have bailed them out, and he wants bankers to "consider waiving their right to them".

How fucking inept is it possible for one man to be!

On the one hand we have the Royal Bank of Scotland, given a £20bn pound handout from the public purse with the government (in their capacity as our representatives - ha, ha!) now owning 68% of the bank, proposing to pay out £1bn in bonuses and on the other hand, we have Mr Brown flapping ineffectively about "how the culture of rewarding failure was being ended" while expressing his anger but substantively doing naff-all about it. Boy, does he talk a good job.

And that is all it is - talk.

The RBS has made huge losses, would have ceased to exist were it not for our money and the best Gordo can come up with is a request that they "have a little think about not taking their bonuses this year because they have been very, very naughty and bad boys don't get sweeties for being naughty". Wake up and inhale the shit hitting the fan! These guys have had their snouts embedded in the trough of greed through mis-selling, mis-management and screwing everybody over for years now and he wants them to give all that up!

I thought the Police did a good job of rewarding outright failure but the execs at the banks are in a different league. "Yes, we've made huge losses. Yes, we wouldn't have jobs were it not for the tax-payer. Yes, we have right-royally fucked the entire global economy but we really think we all deserve a bonus so we are going to give ourselves one."

And with Gordon in charge, there appears to be very little anyone is going to do about it- they are, after all, all members of the same ruling class. And they know it.