Fings just what they used to be

If you look at where the financial world went belly up last year it was in the USA and dear old Britain where the head honchos were pulling in the equivalent of a EuroMillions rollover every year while the shady figures in the background, off the balance sheet, were making even more.

The crisis was driven by greed and even after they were kept afloat by the taxpayer the banks have hardly changed their ways at all and while jobs and firms vanish in the real world the bonuses and profits are back in full swing at the banks with the minor irritation of insolvency long forgotten.

Britain now has more invested in banks than we spend on defence and let us be honest I do not think you will find many bankers willing to lay down their lives for their country.

Now the rest of the industrial world want to do something about the obscene bonus culture which was the rocket fuel for the meltdown suggesting caps and controls and tighter banking regulations - and which two countries are against the idea? Step forward the USA and the UK..

It makes you wonder who is really running the country.