Today as I boarded the tube from Canary Wharf following a meeting I had the pleasure of bumping into leader of the opposition and Conservative party (and without a doubt the next Prime Minister of the UK) David Cameron. Whilst I admired him for taking public transport, even with a plethora of photographers, it was the paper he was carrying that grabbed my attention.
It is not often a headline makes you stare at someones paper intently, the last time was when actor Christopher Reeve died and the headline read “Superman is Dead!”, much to the horror of the young boy sat next to me who began to cry.
But today I read that Bernard Maddof, the former chairman of NASDAQ, has admitted fraud totalling £33 BILLION (£33,000,000,000). In the time of the credit crunch this means not only putting more of a strain on the ever tightning economy but also the tax payers, once again, will have to front the bill.
Now excuse the language but HOW THE FUCK was this not picked up? Is there no audit process involved when monitoring finances?
One woman quoted today “It will be difficult to see finances return to normal in America for a while £33 billion is a lot of money”….no shit.
This world is falling into economic decline, whilst America maybe celebrating the new President replacing a bumbling buffoon in GW Bush, here in the UK we have a clueless idiot involved, who was never elected Prime Minister, to announce last week that he had “Saved the world”
If he had any decenecy he will call an election tomorrow for the Spring, accept defeat and maybe, just maybe the man I met this morning can put the Great back into Britain.