Thatcher we Love You

Aren’t you simply delighted to hear that the British tax-payer picked up almost £1 Billion in military and civil credit sales losses from the Gulf War MkI. The article in the Guardian highlights those firms gleefully doing business with the Butcher of Baghdad with full complicity from the British Goverment (then under the Thatcher Junta). More amazing for me in my naive view of the world, is why we citizens have to pick up the pieces when big businesses wiling to deal with tyrants have their deals bomb. If I give all my savings to a known criminal hoping to make a bit of extra dosh, and he then runs with the money, will the Government cover me too? Money hungry and unscrupulous power-sharks (i.e. probably all of the military-industrial ‘complex’) must simply love these pure risk free opportunities - like something you see in the unclassified ads at the back of a dodgy investment magazine, except they are guaranteed to work…

Posted by Ian at February 28, 2003 01:35 PM | TrackBack §