Valley of the Trolley Dollies

Eurovision Juries to return in a bid to defeat the block-voting approach of recent years, accoridning to today’s Guardian.

Hooray! But will it work?

One good thing about the impending collapse of Western Civilisation is that the news media (specifically, GMTV which, actually. is less ‘news’ and more ‘call this premium line phone number as promoted by Keith ‘Yes, i still have a carreer. this is it’ Chegwin and win ten grand’) are obliged to wheel out the Financial commentators.

Usually fusty old ‘City’ Types like Justin Fukwitt Stewart or whatever his name is:

But, from time to time I’ll se Henk. Henk Potts. Of Barclays.

he’s another City Boy, but less old school and more School of Hard Knocks. He’s big and blond and beefy and has a slightly fat tongue that makes him mispronounce certain words (”Consumer” comes out as “Cwnsoomah”).

He’s dreamy. Or, as the yoot of today would have it: Iz fit, inne?

So the financial industry is in freefall, and those of us working in Finance are all about to be fired / made redundant / sold for dog food, and the Western Capitalist Economies (which, for the past few years, have actually been propped up by Red China, as we used to like to call it), are about to implode and leave hordes of hoodie-wearing flesh tearing zombies roaming the streets and randomly attacking the ‘survivors.’

Sounds like Crawley on a Saturday night, to be frank, and I’ve seen so many ‘End of the World’ scenarios to know that (a) this one really is serious, but (b) the world doesn’t end with a bang, or a whimper. It doesn’t really end, it just evolves. So, we have a financial evolution going on, and I pray that the people I know and love are impacted and/or hurt as little as possible.

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