Just recently, when he spoke of introducing laws in the UK to curb bankers' pay (yet another politician looking for the wonderful payday of a job in European Politics?) our possibly sick PM said "People in Britain have a very strong sense of fairness and a very strong sense that people should take responsibility for their actions.”
Presumably he was not referring to all the politicians, of whatever hue, who cheated on expenses but have not resigned or to the very many senior politicians (often in a legal post) who see no shame in "soldiering on" when they have been found to be breaking the law.
The most recent of course is a lady caught out flouting the law on the employment of illegal immigrants equating it to cheating on the London congestion charge.
Presumably the PM was also not referring to the millions of people who, perfectly understandably (because it does not profit them), choose never to work but rather choose to exploit all those who do an honest days work AND pay taxes.
There is a very real threat in this nonsense about bankers' pay, the Brits have only ever been good at poetry and piracy (in a modern sense this is popular music and the City of London) and to potentially force the bankers overseas is an incredibly unwise act.
Can the PM just have a look to make sure that these "City Slickers" did pay the proper tax on their gigantic earnings?
If so, he should be encouraging the bonus culture, the national deficit is so huge that the exchequer needs all the income it can lay its hand on.
What future for the fund raising ability of UK companies, and therefore the price of their shares, and also the level of Sterling, when the world's finances are arranged outside these shores?
The Scots were once good at finance but both RBOS and BOS have shown that these "canny" people, including the PM, have lost that skill.
Sorry, rant over.