1,000,000,000,000

I think.

However, all is well...

Chancellor of the World

A meeting held on our soil and some very rich, very out of touch guys agree to agree for once. And the host gets some nice thank you notes from those who attended. And some plaudits that seem... excessively partisan from a few quarters.

I am always a little intrigued as to where these vast sums of money are coming from... and going to. And while the global financial industry is probably a critical part of my way of life, some salaried, index-linked pol handing telephone directories to some salaried, indexed-linked banker looking after the odd dodgy dictator we flog arms to is not quite getting me as damp around the nethers as some 'journalists' and headline-writing sub-editors around the MSM. Maybe you had to be there. Which most of us in the real world were not.

Just whose pensions pot is this amount 'Gordon' is 'giving' on our behalves coming from? You can't sell what you don't own, and in this regard the credibility of the self-serving politco-media establishment is pretty much shot in this household at least. I can still vote one lot out every few years, at least. Not too sure how I deal with the rest.... yet.

The Trillion Dollar Man?

Update 14:23: He's done it.
Gordon Brown has got his trillion.

Just wanted to see what it looked like all on its own.
I'm pretty sure the other 32 awaiting moderation might have noted it to.

Now I am of to find out what the real news, in actual context, is. And how it affects the pockets of those not enjoying state salaries and pensions.

Daily Mail (I know, but... call it the other bookend) - Hubris, hoopla and claims that were false, cynical and very, very dangerous - The true story is that Gordon Brown seems to have corralled fellow leaders into perpetrating a gigantic collective fraud on world public opinion.