Wanna buy a Jag, one careful owner?

Now I have an overdraft, a mortage and, since last week, no job so what do I know when it comes to high finance?

I can just about understand that when the bankers emptied the trough and found, when they looked over their snouts, that not only was there no more swill on its way but they couldn't even pay for what they had guzzled, that someone had to pick up the bill.

If the bankers go down we all go down which does tend to beg the question of what sort of Government lets them play unsupervised for so long. It also makes me wonder why, if we are paying rather a lot for a not very good piper, we are not picking the tune. If I pay a plumber because I have leak I don't expect to then have to negotiate about when, how or even if he is going to repair it. Ministers trying to sound tough, without upsetting future job prospects in the city of course, and calling on banks to lend what is effectively our money back to us makes you wonder which is the dog and which is the tail.

As for Jag, the world's biggest Indian takeaway, why should we even be talking to a huge Indian multi-national who can find the rupees to sponsor the Ferrari F1 team next year but expect us to bail them out of a hole in the up market car market.

Woolies goes belly up and the Government's response is the wonder of silence. Rover fails its MOT and the only money from HM Government is a few bob to tide them over to put off the really bad news until after the local elections. It is all starting to seem a bit murky around big cat's whiskers suddenly.