I see Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has said it’s time to stop banker bashing. I saw a clip of him on the television news claiming this in the House of Commons.

This might be considered a little hypocritical of him coming only one day since he levied a tax on banker’s bonuses. A tax at which said bankers were said to be “livid.”

Except I don’t buy it. It’s much more Machiavellian than that.

Do you believe for a minute that these bankers were not aware this tax was on the cards? Cue much confected outrage.

These people have some nerve considering they bankrupted the country and continue to reward themselves handsomely for it while the rest of us mere mortals will be the ones paying the price.

By the way; do you get a bonus from your work? (I certainly don’t. Moreover, I don’t expect one.)

And why should you?

Why should anyone?

Your salary is your remuneration. You knew what it would be when you took the job on. Just exactly who needs a bonus to turn up and do their job?

And don’t give me this rubbish about going abroad if the money’s not enough. Let’s call that threat by its proper name. Blackmail.

Back to George Osborne.

He said that because of a deal he’s cooked up with his banker cronies – the deal which he says means it’s time to stop banker bashing – that there would be, and I quote, “less bonuses.”

Not, you’ll note – as I did – “less paid in bonuses” and certainly not “fewer bonuses.”

So much for an expensive private education.

George; you’re not much of an advert for Eton, nor for Magdalen College, Oxford.