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WE HAVE A QUESTION
YOU MIGHT LIKE TO ASK
MA'AM! -WHAT HAS
HAPPENED TO
OUR
FREEDOM- CONSTITUTION AND COUNTRY?
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The Queen has missed her vocation. She'd be
wonderful as a polite Paxman asking the questions we
ALL want the answers to.
by
TOM UTLEY
[Daily Mail-Friday,November
7 ,2008.
[EXTRACT]
AT THE AGE of 82, the Queen broke the
habit of a lifetime on small-talk this week when she
turned up for the official opening of the £71
million New Academic Building at the London School
of Economics.
Shown round by Professor Luis
Garicano Heead of Research at the LSE's Management
Department, she didn't ask him:
Have you come far?' Nor
did she want to know: 'have you been working
here long?'
INSTEAD,
Her Majesty put into words the question that has
been puzzling all 129 million of HER SUBJECTS in
BRITAIN and around the world for many months -the
very thing that YOU and I might wish to ask a
PROFESSOR of ECONOMICS if we happened to bump
into one on a BUS,
What she wanted to know was THIS:
since the scale of the credit crisis
is so enormous, why on earth didn't anybody SEE IT
COMING?
I can't help feeling a stab of
sympathy for Professor Garicano. there he stood, in
his Sunday best, all primed to tell the QUEEN:
'No ma'am, I haven't had very far to
come today.' (Or, as the case may be: 'Yes ma'am
I've had a fairly long journey.')
YET HERE she was asking him the $3
trillion question THAT WE ALL WANT ANSWERED:
'WHY have bankers,
politicians and economists TURNED OUT TO BE USELESS
AT THEIR JOBS?'
The professor's answer seems thoroughly inadequate
to me. According to his account, he told the QUEEN:
'at every state, someone was relying on somebody
else and everybody thought they were doing the right
thing,'
A more
illuminating reply might have been: Bankers didn't
see it coming, ma'am, because they were so busy
dreaming about theier whopping bonuses that they
couldn't THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE.'. . .
The list of questions that the
Queen could ask our politicians is almost endless.
With her interest in economics, she
might start by asking the Prime Minister:
'If we got into into this mess by
spending and borrowing TOO MUCH, why do you suppose
that we'll GET OUT OF IT by SPENDING and BORROWING
MORE?.'. . .
When she has
finished grilling the Prime Minister, her majesty
might turn her attention to Ed Balls, HER Secretary
of State for Children, Schools and Families....
While she's at , the Queen might like
to ask him: 'Tell me , Mr Balls, why are exam
questions so easy these days?'...
In fact, couldn't she ask all
three party leaders the next time she gets them
together at a STATE BANQUET
'Can anyone please
explain the difference between Labour, the Tories
and Libdems?'
That should be far more
interesting. I'm sure SHE'D AGREE, than the answer:
'Have you come far?'
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NOVEMBER-2008
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