Slaves & bankers
Bl**dy bankers bonuses – it’s not just that I am bored to the back teeth of hearing about them, it’s just that when the Westminster Village strays on to topics such as the blagging of vast sums of money for nothing, its not just that they are on incredibly thin ice but they talk such complete nonsense
High Street banks should be stopped from paying cash bonuses of more than £2,000, shadow chancellor George Osborne is expected to say. In a speech to the City, he is to say lending banks should be allowed to pay "significant" bonuses only in shares.
& what happens next? Unscrupulous traders depress their share price just before the vesting date on the share option scheme & then ramp it shortly afterwards ... because we have never seen that happen before have we dear readers. You might call me an old cynic but Tory Boy Cameron’s Nu Conservative policies seem to be increasingly less about conservatism & more about desperately trying to win as many votes as possible by jumping on every populist cause going. I wonder where he learnt that one. How is Princess Toni’s bid to become EU Emperor going?
Now while we are on the topic of populist causes, the wanabe Wilberforces are out again
The House of Lords is expected to vote later on proposed new laws for England and Wales to deal with what campaigners are calling modern-day slavery. Liberty and Anti-Slavery International say servitude and forced labour remain widespread, with some migrants being held against their will on low wages. They say prosecutions are difficult because of a lack of clear offences criminalising such practices
It’s not that I impervious to the plight of many migrants, legal or otherwise, if you are working legally in this country, there isn’t so much a raft of employment legislation that protects ‘workers rights’...these days it’s a bleeding aircraft carrier. If you are working illegally in this country, how about something along the lines of tough titty – why exactly to we need yet more laws to protect those who have already broken the law. Whatever next, paid maternity leave for illegal workers?
I did however quite like the money quote from Shami Chakrabarti at the end of the item
In an age when new criminal offences have flown out of Westminster like confetti, the lack of an effective anti-slavery law is a gaping hole in the protection of the vulnerable
of course what she should have simply said is
New criminal offences have flown out of Westminster like confetti
but down in these yerrrrr parrrrrts, we have increasingly taken to ignoring the sputum that emanates from the bowels of Westminster
Comments
Kill them. Kill them all. And I'm not talking about bankers and slavers, either.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | October 27, 2009 6:14 PM