These tweets were all posted last night in response to comments from the Governor of the Bank of England (on which there will be more here, soon):
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We all knew what we were getting when we heard of his appointment.
He is another establishment appointee, appointed to say and do stupidly things and paid handsomely for it whilst this country is destroyed and turned into a rich boy’s kingdom.
On a personal level, he is a threat to my well being and I should seek to have removed by any means possible, like the rest of the money sucking twerps currently running the show.
Has there ever been a time when we have been so badly served by the institutions of State?
What strikes me is that what he’s saying and doing appears grossly incompetent from a perspective that has compassion for people as a whole, but it also appears consistent with a particularly cruel ideological perspective. Who benefits from his view, as you point out, I think is telling. His ideology will view others’ poverty as a lack of drive, ambition, laziness, fecklessness, their own poor decisions. It smacks of liberalism and neoliberalism, an entirely atomised view of people and their circumstances whilst simultaneously working for an institution that demonstrates that we’re utterly interdependent. It’s often unpleasant to read your blogs (having the truth revealed can be awful, but is always preferable to ignorance or remaining deceived), since they highlight that the suffering to come will be both unnecessary, deliberate, wilful and malicious. Noam Chomsky recently wrote that what saddens him most is knowing that for most people, they’ll try to live their lives whilst being subjected to the needless cruelties of government. This sounds like one of those needless cruelties.
Agreed
That is why I am so angry with him
That and his incompetence
It’s safe to assume that there are some sectors of the UK economy and the financial world that think our Governor it the BoE is the Bee’s knees. Whilst we can list the likely losers if he maintains course, who believe that they will be the winners?
Andrew Bailey is a sad reminder yet again this country is not an “informed” democracy!
Richard – keep going with the employment / inflation angle – very simple levers and comprehensible. If you got on Jeremy Vine again (not that I can listen to many of the callers…), then it would be a good takeaway.
The juxtaposition of something very simple and almost child like set against the suffering of countless people can be highly effective. It can stick in the mind and with the virtue of if it is true then it will hold firm.
Thanks…