I do have my own blog on the Open University and also used to contribute to the Nick robinson blog.
This is a copy of a comment I made on the 15th Septemeber 2008, the that Lehmans died:
'Merrill Lynch as well, and AIG. I mean it is so brilliant to listen to people coming onto the radio and give us their expert knowledge. I mean they are so expert that they have not seen this coming, or if they did they remained silent, which is actually even worse.
If people who knew stayed silent so as not to spread doom and despondency then they are guilty of negligence. This is an appalling state of affairs, and this time the Great Depression will be a truly global one. Just as the Great War was really a European Civil War, including Europeans who had influence in America, which resulted in WWII, then the Great Depression was basically the same. This will be the equivalent of WWII, and when India and China join in then this is going to be cataclysmic, our own little Armageddon'.
Now I had also been writing in my local newspaper for quite some time about the impending financial implosion. So, I would say to her Majesty that if only more people had read either my blog or my local newspaper then they would have seen it coming from an awful long way away. What I will say is that sometimes we really must ask more of the so called experts, experts who in so many fields have let down the people.
It is similar to all those chairs of various committees who come on to our media after years of taking the money that nobody has listened and that the government has failed in its duty. They were happy to take the money and we have to ask what have they achieved.
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I do have my own blog on the Open University and also used to contribute to the Nick robinson blog.
This is a copy of a comment I made on the 15th Septemeber 2008, the that Lehmans died:
'Merrill Lynch as well, and AIG. I mean it is so brilliant to listen to people coming onto the radio and give us their expert knowledge. I mean they are so expert that they have not seen this coming, or if they did they remained silent, which is actually even worse.
If people who knew stayed silent so as not to spread doom and despondency then they are guilty of negligence. This is an appalling state of affairs, and this time the Great Depression will be a truly global one. Just as the Great War was really a European Civil War, including Europeans who had influence in America, which resulted in WWII, then the Great Depression was basically the same. This will be the equivalent of WWII, and when India and China join in then this is going to be cataclysmic, our own little Armageddon'.
Now I had also been writing in my local newspaper for quite some time about the impending financial implosion. So, I would say to her Majesty that if only more people had read either my blog or my local newspaper then they would have seen it coming from an awful long way away. What I will say is that sometimes we really must ask more of the so called experts, experts who in so many fields have let down the people.
It is similar to all those chairs of various committees who come on to our media after years of taking the money that nobody has listened and that the government has failed in its duty. They were happy to take the money and we have to ask what have they achieved.