It’s Bonus time
Though there’s a chance they won’t get paid,
At Bonus time
That greedy lot, they’ve got it made;
Because in a world of spreadsheets
And fiscal graphs, oh boy,
They can move to Switzerland at Bonus time!
They say it’s fair
Fair that the clever guys
At Bonus time should move, so that they get their rise;
There’s a horde of fiscal wizards
Flouncing out the door
And taking all their talent to
Somewhere they’re valued more:
They don’t like Darling’s tax plan to limit their reward
So they’re telling us they’ll all just work abroad!
So there won’t be any bankers here next Christmastime!
They’ll bring the London market to its knees
(Oooh!) They’ve told us that they’ll go
To keep all of their dough
Don’t we know it’s Bonus time at all?
So here’s to them, raise a glass of vintage Mumm
Here’s to them as they head off for the sun
Don’t we know it’s Bonus time at all?
Bleed the World! They’ll make sure it’s Bonus time!
Bleed the World! They’ll make sure it’s Bonus time!
Bleed the World! They’ll make sure it’s Bonus time again!
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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
Yes, it is nice to get on the Gordon Brown ‘bash a banker – not me’ band wagon but you must realize the figures for bankers are nothing compared to the government.
Gordon and Co have done a good job of diversion from themselves, as instigators of the crash, to the bankers, who were only taking advantage of what Gordon gave them in the way of very lax control.
It is very easy to exploit envy, especially when apparently large sums of money are bandied about. Only a very few people see beyond this smoke screen to the real perpetrator of the fraud – Gordon Brown.
From the time he became chancellor, everything he did was aimed at what we have now in the UK. The culture of envy, dumbed down education, underfunded troops and so on, all to produce a class of people that will keep on voting labor.
The moment the wheels came off the gravy train a scapegoat had to be found – that turned out to be the bankers because they appeared to be an easy target. Here I am talking about the people, not the banks – there is a difference. If Gordon had let Northern Rock go under – as he should but that would have gone against his aims – the cost of paying the money, in full, to the depositors would have been a very small proportion of what eventually went into propping up dud institutions – Scottish banks.
The fact Gordon and Co want to ‘punish’ the bankers has just proved how out of touch with reality the government are.
Yes Gordon was chancellor when this economic collapse was bruing, it is right he take a very large portion of the blame, but Thatcher and Reagan were the first to start removing ‘restrictive’ regulations on the banks.
This catastrophe has been brewing for a very long time.
No the bonuses aren’t the problem, it’s the behaviour the bonuses reward that is the problem.