The Media

a very good point made today because with one hand Darling tells us that Osborne is talking down the pound, ok I can see where he is coming from, this is the man who told us that we were 'pissed off' with labour just to remind readers.

So, at the same time all the commentators are telling us that nobody saw the bank crash coming. Well I would speculate that they did in fact see it all coming, as I have said I did, and I am not an academic so nobody pays any attention to me. But my point is that the people in power who did see it coming were probably told not to say anything because they culd be accused of bring ing the party to an end.

So, when do we tell the truth as we see it without being accused of talking down the country. When do soldiers tell us how awful the situation is in Afghanistan, when do the generals tell us that we cannot win, one did and he loses out on promotion. Meanwhile the one who went along with the invasion of Iraq now writes books and works for a company supplying mercenaries, sorry private contractors to the country our soldiers died for.

Whistleblowers are persecuted and silenced by court injunctions, and the press is silenced by judges who seem to favour the moneyed elite. We learnt a lot about the press and the BBC when Harry went to Afghanistan, shame on you, I no longer trust the media, as if I ever did.