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Thursday, April 29, 2010

European Union Blues

Isn’t it lovely to see and feel the return of spring once again. The leaves are unfurling, the flowers blooming, and the insects, my food, are taking advantage of this fresh new season. Oddly, and quite unlike certain members of your government, Bob has built his own duck house, although none have actually visited it as yet. Anyway, for the moment, I’m taking advantage of this floating masterpiece to compose my blog. Ribbit!!

Once again, I have to own up and say that I’m hopping mad. Why is it that humans always seem to believe in the things that they assume can do them the most harm, rather than in the opposite? Here, I’m talking about the European Union and those among you who advocate that Britain leaves it. In other words, they want the British to becomes isolated once again. Croak!!

Let’s get one thing straight. Leaving the union could turn out to be one of the most harmful events that the British could bring upon yourselves. Why? Because, among other things it will make doing business with the European market suddenly very, very expensive. I dread to think of the countless thousands of jobs that will be lost. All businesses that currently trade between themselves and the community, would suddenly find that they are no longer competitive with their former European market traders. As you are well aware, your manufacturing is already in tatters, unfortunately a legacy of the Thatcher years, and since then continued by the Labour party. Can Britain truly afford to isolate itself from Europe and go it alone? I really don’t think so, Croak!!.

On top of this, what is it about you all that drives you bite the hand that feeds you? How many very expensive community projects throughout Britain, have been completed to date, and every single one made possible only through your membership of the European Union? I can tell you that it’s thousands, and worth a total of hundreds of millions of pounds in EEC grants. Yes, this country does put a lot into being a member, but don’t forget that it also takes a whole lot out of it too. Ribbit!!

Many people today, scattered throughout all political parties, have never liked Britain entering the European Union. These people often talk about losing sovereignty, a poor excuse if you ask me, and since when has anyone had a hold over what the British government wants to do? Do you really want the old system to return, the one that saw you pulling out your passports every time you went from one European country to another? Have you any idea as to just how much the British would be hated by all the European states, if it was to actually pull out of the union at this time? This is already being discussed in certain European countries, and they are serious. Croak!!

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again for those of you who missed it the first time round. Why do you think that Britain, or at least certain people within Britain, don’t want you to have the Euro? I’ll tell you, it’s partly because a great many very greedy people make money, pots of money, every time you leave and return to Britain on your holidays or casual visits, like shopping sprees, etc. Even more so, it’s when British businesses deal with the European states. The greedy people want the British currency to stay this way, simply because trading in currencies is worth millions to them. However, since the Euro is worth about the same as the pound in your pocket, you’d actually lose very little, if anything, from a change in the deal to take on the Euro. However, greedy currency dealers would have to look elsewhere to ply their trade. Ribbit!!

Perhaps it’s that you are one of these people who think that we should keep the pound, though technically, there is no advantage to Britons in doing so. Perhaps it’s that you like to look at the Queen’s portrait every now and again, if only to give you a sense of belonging? I should think that the only people who would fear, or be terrified by a change of currency, are those who stand to lose heavily by it happening. I mean to say, imagine that you are some kind of crook, and that you have millions of crisp pounds stashed away somewhere, a place that remains hidden from prying eyes. If a change of currency was to come about, you’d feel more than a little ticked off about it, now wouldn‘t you? After all, you could hardly wander into your local bank and casually ask them to change it for the new currency, now could you? The bank would have much more than a few questions to put to you, though it would probably coincide with the dulcet tones of our boys in blue, speeding round to help the bank with their enquiries. Croak!!

Seriously though, trading with others has been a part of social life for thousands of years, but suddenly, Britain, or certain people who live here anyway, find the need to stand alone in society. Britain’s economy cannot afford to go it alone, as they seem to think. Do you seriously consider that this country can survive on tourism alone, because this is about all that Britain has left to offer. Trade means jobs and security for everyone. Take that trade away, and the economy will most certainly crash. How do you think that you get along without jobs, or the means to live in society? Croak!!

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that Britain, and you lot, would be better off by pulling out of the European Union. These people would be among the very first to leave a sinking ship. Talk about European Union Blues... Ribbit!!

Froggy

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

A Tangled Web

Well, what can I say about you human beings? I cannot go away and leave you all for five minutes, not without some of you are bringing your country’s economy down right around your ears. Leaping toads, Why? Ribbit!!

I spent a great deal of my precious time explaining to you all about what was going to happen if you carried on in the manner you were doing. You ignored my pearls of wisdom, because you thought you knew better, and so you paid for your foolishness. Talk about being completely idiotic. Has someone actually got to spell everything out to you, or is it that you simply couldn’t believe in a talking frog? Ribbit!!

It was actually you who brought about your own financial doom and gloom. I find it odd really, no, actually it’s funny! I told you what would happen if you continued to buy houses and other property, at prices that you couldn’t afford, especially when those said properties were being sold at prices far beyond their true worth. Did you listen to my advice? No, you certainly didn’t! And you still think that prices will go up again. Oh dear, oh dear. Tell me, did you take my advice as to what would happen to the stock market, if the world market continued to go the way it was? No, you damned well didn’t! So, whose fault is that? Croak!!

Now it appears that your government has not only allowed your bankers to poise on the verge of total bankruptcy, but they took pity on them and rescued them with your money. Yes, your money!! It’s unbelievable. Croak!!

Let me ask you this tiny question. I’ll keep it simple so you can understand, but only because it’ll go over your heads if I don’t. Did these same bankers show their undying gratitude and appreciation of what you did for them by bailing them out? Ribbit!!

That’s right, I was told they damned well didn’t, and not only this, the ungrateful gits, they laughed right back at you. From what I’ve been told, it is a whole lot worse than this, because for these same bankers, it’s business as usual and they continued to pay themselves in huge bonuses. Even worse is the fact that following their promise to support small businesses, they chose to flatly ignore their requests for financial help. The result of this was that large numbers of you lost your jobs and your homes too. How’s this for so-called gratitude? Crumbs, I’d rather turn into a toad, warts and all, than to ever trust a banker, not that I ever needed one. Croak!!

By the way, I also heard that your government told you that they rescued the banks to save your savings. Toad crap!! Now that’s a real belly laugh for you. They did it to save their own savings, not yours. Let’s face it, they stood to lose a darned sight more money than you lot ever did. Croak!!!

What you should be asking yourselves is this, how long will it be before they, the banks, get into more difficulties and lose all your savings again? Croak!!

If I was a human, I’d be shaking my head from side to side in absolute disbelief right now. Bob, the gardener, where I live, tells me that you have elections coming soon? Tell me, do they truly believe that they can help themselves to your tax money, paying for, and buying personal items for themselves and their families, and then truly expect you all to actually vote for them? Please, someone out there, anyone, tell me that it simply isn’t true? Croak!!

Bob, for those who know him, is a pensioner, and he has explained to me, and rightly so, that he isn’t going to vote at all. Why? It’s as plain as the nose on your face. He doesn’t vote for anyone who would steal from him, more especially when those same people think that everyone has forgiven and forgotten their actions against the good taxpayers of this fair land. Bob is still undecided as to what was the worse thing they did to everyone in this whole sorry mess? Helping themselves to money that didn’t even belong to them as MP’s, or to trying to hide the fact that this has been going on for decades? Yes, that’s what I said, decades. Croak!!

To add more fuel to the fire, I understand that your Mr Brown insists that he has helped the failing economy with what he calls, and these are his words, not mine, ’a fiscal stimulus’. Let me tell you this much. Reducing the rate of VAT by two and one half a percent, is by no means a stimulus, fiscal or otherwise. If he truly thinks that it was, then he needs a stimulating kick up his fat backside. Ribbit!!

Don’t you lot see what’s going on out there? He was expecting you to pay for the mess he, and his ilk, got you into in the first place. Hey! If you lot fall for sweet talking of that sort, vote for me as your next government leader. I promise that I could do a far better job of things if this is what you lot have come to expect from the so-called leader of your country. Honest, Frog‘s honour!!!

You know what? Before you vote, if you still intend to that is, take a look through my old blogs. Firstly, those of you who feel that Mr Cameron is the man to ruin, I mean, run your country, remember what I said about being a Tory. There are dozens of them Thatcherites just waiting to get back into parliament, where they will reintroduce Thatcherism and its harsh reality of Tory greed, greater poverty, rampant crime and even higher unemployment. Croak!!

I don’t expect any of you to believe anything I tell you, but my past blogs should at the very least leave you wondering, and perhaps asking a few questions before you do decide to vote. I wasn’t wrong before, and I don’t think for a single minute now that I’m wrong this time either. Cheerio and take care you all. Ribbit!!

Froggy

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