{"id":274,"date":"2007-09-17T22:36:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=274"},"modified":"2007-09-17T22:36:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T22:36:32","slug":"the-little-run-down-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"The Little Run-down Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the tune of “The Ugly Duckling”<\/p>\n


\nThere once was a little rundown country
\nwith fields of green and brown
\nAnd the other states of, with wealth so great said
\nWelcome to EC town
\nSo we went with a swagger and a roll and a gait
\nand signed on the dotted line
\nSo the poor little rundown country
\na former colony with no wealth of its own
\nsigned on the line
\nits future assigned
\nat a meeting they held in Rome.
\nyes a meeting, a treaty, a meeting they held in Rome.
\nSo the poor little rundown country
\nfinally had money to survive
\nThe few rich made cakes
\nfrom overflowing butter lakes
\nand refridgerated everthing not alive.
\nrefridgerated, yes refridgerated, we froze the bejaysus out of everything not alive.
\n(change in key)
\nAll through the 70s and most of the 80s
\nwe struggled and we scraped,
\nthose of us with more, hid it all offshore
\nAll through those years,
\nwealth was rare indeed
\nfarmers made their livings from animals and seed
\nTil a proud and cunning king
\nwho owned nearly everything
\nhad a stunning revelation of the
\npower of low corporate taxation.
\n“Only the rich are saved
\ngreed is good he raved
\nInvest in companies a chara
\nF*&king make it so O’Meara :)”
\n(change to original key and take deep breath!)
\nSo the modestly wealth no-longer rundown country
\nwith competitiveness statistics that enticed
\nBecame the leading manufacturer, outside the US- in fact we were,
\nof everything from software to computer mice.
\nSo our now quite wealthy little country
\ngot the cash, we’d craved for years
\nWhen you’ve got BT’s, you’d never want for Sears
\nDebt seemed very cheap, twas no surprise to see
\na million quid spent recklessly on a 4 bed semi-D
\n(long pause to reflect)
\nOh there once was a little country, that refused to face the facts
\nThe construction industry has sold half the country into a life of slavery
\nHours of traffic jams, 2 jobs, no kids unplanned
\nand the promise of negative equity.
\nYes the promise, the guarantee, the absolute irrefutable fact of impending negative equity.
\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah sure, I don’t mean it really. The government are as much if not more to blame \ud83d\ude42
\nApologies for the bad rhyming, I guess it’s the sentiment that counts. I’m buying a house at the moment and am totally fed up of the vested interests (aka auctioneers) telling me that<\/p>\n