Laughing At The Unemployed City Boy Terrorists
THE Mirror is celebrating the loss of so many jobs in the City. Thousands – secretaries, traders, money makers, revenue, caterers, wealth generators, bar staff, cleaners and more - are looking at redundancy and the Mirror, voice of the worker, is delighted:
But I’m still laughing so hard at the sight of those City Boys departing Avarice Towers with their possessions in champagne boxes, that my face is redder than a glistening new Ferrari.
Or redder than an unpaid utility bill. Happily he then wishes death upon them.
“The fate of these reckless Young Turks is the reverse of that promised to al-Qaeda suicide bombers. They’ve been in Heaven, had their 72 lap-dancers and their reward is now living in Hell where they are impoverished, bitter and universally despised.”
Reade’s co-columnist Paul Routledge also calls for death:
“In China, financial crooks get a bullet in the back of the head. Y’know, I think they might be on to something.”
Or as the Labour supporting Mirror also puts it elsewhere:
“The Government’s economic crisis deepened yesterday as unemployment rocketed to the highest levels in almost a decade.”
Happy days…
Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Media Bitch, Money, Tabloids Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 19th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
“It’s capitalism -they take risks and they failed…”
This is true!
However, I get annoyed when it costs me money.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:26 am
probably because it’s technically going in the wrong direction….
September 19th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Actually, the Mirror’s article was hampered by the laws of libel; stroll off to a few sites hosted elsewhere and people put the boot in with less gentlemanly conduct.
As they should; some poor b*astards are going to have to pay the trillion US dollars minimum needed to sort this out, and it won’t be the ones who have caused the whole f*ck up.
It’ll be the poor bloody infantry.
Incidentally, for the rounded view, Russia suspended trading for the whole of Wednesday and Thursday, resumed this morning for a nice little rally, and has been suspended again; for technical reasons this time.
I’d like to believe that bit about the technical reasons…
September 19th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Let’s just hope this doesn’t lead to a rash of Christopher Fosters across the land. When you have everything and fall, you fall hard.
The tone of the Mirror articles was a bit too like the Bolsheviks calling for the slaughter of the Romanovs, mind you. I’m as left as you like (to the point of counter-clockwise dancing in a circle like a Sufi whirling dervish when I’m out on the town) but I’m glad Routledge managed to tone it down to just trail and takeover at the end, because that was frothing. It’s not like we haven’t been shafted by Wall Street and the City before. My parents (poor workers both) made it through WW2, the post-war austerity years, the Winter of Discontent, the 80’s recession - and one of them’s still alive and kicking.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Anorak,
I just asked a question “are you a lady or a gentleman” (MM) and I got blocked.
If you don’t want to reply me, you do’t have to.
——–
M&A
Artemis
Anorak is a gentleman.
And Heaven knows why every so often the software takes a dislike to a couple of posts and dispatches them to oblivion.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:10 am
No; they didn’t take risks.
Risk is when you put yourself on the line.
When you put other peeople on the line, that’s called cowardice.
And this isn’t called capitalism; this is called how to screw the poor bloody infantry, ie the taxpayer, into paying vast sums to make a very small number of people rich beyond even their dreams of avarice, and their dreams come pretty high…
September 19th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Don’t worry about the city boys - the smart ones made a killing and the idiots wont be suffering more than the rest of us (well, not me… I don’t really do the whole adult thing yet… but we’ll probably still be in a recession by the time I get a pension and a mortgage so I anticipate your pain…).
September 19th, 2008 at 10:02 am
It’s capitalism -they take risks and they failed…
September 19th, 2008 at 9:35 am
B*llocks!
Reade isn’t wishing death on anyone; quite the reverse. Compare and contrast with Michael Lewis:
‘Let’s Start by Finding Some People to Behead’
though admitted, Bloomberg got cold feet and toned it down a bit in later versions.
And yes, we all know that it’s the poor who get dumped on, but I have no sympathy for the people who created this f*cking mess in the first place.
Nor do I see why I should be required to pay vast sums of tax to cover their losses whilst they walk off into a golden sunset with the profits…