Sunday Jukebox – Fade Out? I wish they would.

I had the misfortune of listening to Alistair darling on the radio this morning talking about placing a levy on the banks in order to make ‘them’ pay.  Obviously they won’t pay, we will … again.

Anyway, I just wished the interviewer would have faded him out.

Sunday Jukebox – MP’s expenses

A couple of songs that remind me of they chancers who claim to represent us …

 

Also this week we’ve been having the SNP party conference, good an excuse as any for a bit of flag waving (another great song from Alan Smart):

Sunday Jukebox – The Tory Conference

I thought we should have something appropriate given the Tory Conference has been underway this last week.

If there’s one thing that’s obvious from died-in-the-wool Tory supporters on the web it’s that they’d love to see Thatcher doctrine applied far and wide, which kind of begs the question why they haven’t been supporting the Labour government for the last 12 years.

I recently read someone complaining about David Cameron, labelling him as ’son of Thatcher’, no doubt a soundbite that we’ll be hearing more of in the build-up to the election.  It’s probably best though if we remember that Thatcher actually had Triplets some time ago, she named them, Tony, Gordon and Peter.  A threesome who continued Thatcher economic policy, continued privatisation, further developed private investment in public infrastructure (something that will cost the taxpayer X millions in the coming decades).

As if this wasn’t bad enough they also frittered away public money, took us into illegal wars, persued a regulatory programme that allowed the banking sector to implode all the while rewarding those who they would later accuse of causing the problems that they themselves had laid the groundwork for.

Anyway, this song was written in 1996, it seems strange now that it could be applied to either of the leading Westminster parties.  Billy Bragg – Thatcherites: