EVERY DAY IS BANKERS IN NEED DAY

It's Children in Need (yes, they are still in need) Day next month. The inglorious BBC is beginning to advertise its coverage.

But why are children still in need, after all the fundraising and pranks and sketches and fancy dress and buckets full of silver and copper coins?

We've had QE1 and are discussing QE2, in which hundreds of billions of pounds were very quickly created out of nothing to save the corrupt, fraudulent and bankrupt banking system. So why not for the children in need?

Why? Because every day is Bankers in Need Day.

Oik yesterday announced an expected 490,000 job cuts in the public sector alone. About the same will occur in the private sector as a consequence. Just how many more children, due to the cuts, will be kept in and even plunged further into poverty is yet to be seen.

But why are the cuts being announced? Because the bankers needed all the money we could give them. Their free market Gods had deserted them, so they briefly worshipped at the altar of the common people, were bailed out, but then quickly paid themselves billions and shipped it off shore.

So enjoy Children in Need. Laugh at the funny sketches, the funny jokes, the funny costumes. You did it last year, and the year before, and the year before that...

But remember that every day is Bankers in Need Day, and you are paying for that every day without any humour in return.