Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

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Date: 01 February 2009 19:36:43

We have had a lot of unrest in the UK over the past few days. It all stems from a row over an Italian company that has won a contract to work on the Total oil refinery in Yorkshire.

Why the controversy? Well, the Italians refuse to use British contractors and will only employ Italian labour. In a power station in another part of the country a Spanish company has done exactly he same. People are therefore angry that British workers  are not allowed to work on contracts in their own country. Part of the fear is that these company are not paying staff the same as they would local workers.

It doesn't help that Gordian Broon made a speech at the 2007 Labour Party Conference in which he promised that his government would provide "British jobs for British workers". This rallying call has come back to bite him in the ass.

Now his party are trying to "clarify" what his speech meant. Private Eye have referred to it in their 'Communique From The Supreme Leader' as "British jobs for British workers (especially those from Ukraine, Poland, Italy etc"

It is especially humorous when politicians, who rant against the more right wing and nationalistic parties who sow the seeds of hatred, adopt similar language to forward their own populist stand. Then, when it backfires, they try to tell us that what was said was taken out of context and they need to clarify their meaning.

I suppose that we shouldn't be surprised that we are dealing with a bunch of unprincipled people who have no desire to standby their policies and promises. Should we be surprised that the man who has done more to bring about this crisis, yet claim to be the world's saviour, will not accept that he has caused this crisis or that he actually meant exactly what he said 18 months ago.