Alistair Darling's too-little-too-late announcement today, made beyond the reach of parliamentary scrutiny, includes one provision to help those who are facing repossession.I am sure that will be no comfort to the grieving relatives of Christopher, Jill & Kirstie Foster, whose deaths seem to have been directly linked to the failure of Mr Foster's business and the imminent repossession of his home.
While Darling fiddled, Osbaston House burned.
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Pathetic
This is a pretty disgusting post, Donal.
What's disgusting is that the government waits until something terrible such as that family's deaths happens and then - and only then - does the government act.
Gary Glitter gets released from jail...Jacqui Smith announces tough policies on paedophiles.
A high profile repossession leading to the death of three family members...the government announces help for families facing repossession.
It is the government's cavalier disregard for our freedoms, our economic stability and our livelihoods that is disgusting, Anonymous.
Oh come off it, is this a wind up, because if it is it's not particularly funny.
Whatever Darling's shortcomings, you can hardly lay the blame of the tragedy of the Foster's at his door.
Foster was about to lose his home because he was a failed business man who ran up loads of debt and was, in the words of a judge; "bereft of the basic instincts of commercial morality" and "not to be trusted".
To try to implicate Darling in this, by his actions or indeed lack of them, is truly scraping the bottom of the barrel.
And how does any of that suggest that there is blood on Alistair Darling's hands?
The way in which you are trying to pass responsibility for any of this on to anyone other than Chris Foster is utterly bizarre.
Actually I do blame this government for the current economic collapse we're enduring. Every suicide that results from a failed business is to some degree the fault of the government. They're obviously not solely to blame - I never said they were - but the government's economic incompetence has played and will play a large part in the repossessions, job losses, failed marriages and suicides that will happen over the coming months.
But - to continue on the current example - repossessions do not in any way explain or excuse a man's decision to murder his wife and daughter. His business failed, he got into debt, and he couldn't handle it.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility, Donal?
To suggest that there is blood on Alistair Darling's hands is both complete bollocks and hugely offensive.
Of course he should take personal responsibility for killing his family (if he did so - not sure how you take personal responsibility for killing someone, not in this life anyway).
My point is that Darling bears SOME of the blame for what has happened and will happen to other families. Not ALL of the blame - so stop saying that's what I've said. But SOME of it.
Darling bears responsibility for the bad economic circumstances. But the bad economic circumstances do not in any way necessarily lead to, or in any way excuse, Chris Foster murdering his wife and daughter.
I agree it doesn't EXCUSE the killing of the family (we don't yet know the entire family is dead or that the husband killed everyone) but you are wrong to say that the economic circumstances resulting from Brown & Darling's ineptitude did not "in any way" lead to this tragedy. Had the economy been in better health, this tragedy probably wouldn't have happened.
But in even the most buoyant economy, some businesses will go bust. My point is that the jump you make from Foster's business going bust to him killing his family is an absurd one.
I am off out now so unfortunately won't be able to reply for a while.
The poor taste, I can forget.
But "Every suicide that results from a failed business is to some degree the fault of the government", this is pure rubbish.
So does the reverse hold true, that every happy worker, manager or owner is also to some degree the cause of government?
If some loser blows his head off because he make a muppet investment and lost his house, that's his fault.
Or should nanny Darling wipe your backside every day because you're to lazy or thick?
You've got a stupid name, you don't have to back it up with naff ideas.
So how would you have prevented the housing boom?
Capped mortgage lending? Increased stamp duty? Introduced a land tax? Levy CGT on housing windfalls?
Donal, I do think that was a somewhat extreme example. However, I can see where you're coming from & I agree with you that in the coming months (years even if it takes that long to get the UK's economy sorted out) there will be many business failures, repossessions & divorces that will be linked to how Darling & Brown (particularly Brown) so grossly mismanaged the UK economy. Prudent Chancellor my a***! Worst Chancellor & worst PM the UK has ever had.
Jesus this is a weak post.
The man's business didn't fail due to the poor economic climate. It failed because he was bad at running it, tried to break a contract in order to make more money, and so got sued and lost.
The liquidators of his firm are set to sell his products for a tidy profit as they were sound ideas, poorly executed by a bad business man.
Do some research..
Donal, I think you may have had a point if you were referring to the hundreds of tragic suicides of farmers in the last 11 years as a result of the incompetent policies of this Labour government and the ridiculous EU farming diktats.
As it is, I have to agree that you have probably overstepped the boundaries of good taste.
I agree.
Personally, I blame the Government for breaking my leg two years ago, my inability to get rid of my beer gut in recent months and the fact that I haven't had a good shag in a while also....
But seriously, the murder of Kirstie, I find that very disturbing.
diablo makes a good point. More farmers killed themselves over the government's reaction to Mad Cow Disease than people have died from NVCJD, sometimes government must take responsibility for their actions.
Oh my god, Donal. You are utterly insane.
You do realise that businesses go bust in good times too? Is Gordon Brown responsible for every bankruptcy between 1997 and 2007?
Completely nuts. I suggest you seek help.
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