Tesco, the banks and Vince Cable

1 February

Yesterday 31 January the Guardian published my letter (reproduced in my blog the day before)revisiting my Tesco campaign, unexpurgated and in extenso for the very first time. And gave it a clever heading "Keep ethical trading in fashion". All we have to do is await Tesco's response - from Lucy Neville-Rolfe no doubt.

It has been quite a weekend since today the Sunday Times publishes my letter on the banks (see my blog on 26 January) taking up Rachel Johnson's column last week, but watered down, no reference to Lord Myners etc. Never mind, got the essence and entitled "Detoxing our money".

Then this morning Michael Ware sent his daily poetic mite "In Denial", a broadside on Gordon Brown whose "Prudence was in fact a total scam." I responded that they were all in denial with the stirring exception of the invincible Vince Cable and asked when a paeon to Vince would come down the cable. Well later today it arrived:

Convinced

Thank God in crisis we still have our Vince.
The only one who seems to spout some sense,
Who knows his onions, is able to convince
That he should lead now matters are so tense.

It is a joy to hear his calm display
Of all that has gone sadly, sadly wrong,
And saying clearly where the fault must lay
But not induced to sing the Brownite song.

It helps that he is versed in money matters
And can elucidate the mysteries for us,
Whereas the one in charge his spin still natters
Old Vince will do his best to draw the pus.

Oh what a pity when they were so able
The Lib-Dems failed to choose wise Vincent Cable.


1.2.09

I've been entering items on my blog for 12 days now and hope for some reactions. A blog ought to be interactive. Otherwise I feel I am whistling in the dark. I would prefer it if a respondent tore me to pieces, rather than the eery silence. Is it too much to ask for an "I agree" or better still "I think you're way off beam" or "Get off your hobbyhorse". Or something equivalent in the rough rude vernacular.