Post by Neko Bazu on Nov 12, 2008 17:50:46 GMT -1
No, this isn't a staunch royalist post, but instead just a simple celebration of the queen asking the question that needed to be asked by someone in authority - someone who people couldn't give a load of BS to ;D
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/12/queen-economy-recession-lse
Yes, I know that many people had already noticed, but I think she was moreso hinting at the constant denials of any problem. I just wish I'd been there to see that economist squirming ;D
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/12/queen-economy-recession-lse
[...]Describing the credit crunch as "awful", [the queen] tapped a gilded economist on the proverbial shoulder and asked: "Why did nobody notice?"
Aha, ahem, said the director of research, Professor Luis Garicano. He had clearly been briefed to chat about the weather, corgis and perhaps the Grand National. He had certainly not expected an upper cut to the jaw. Monarchs are not supposed to ask leading questions, even when the nation is screaming for an answer.
With his vocation suddenly on trial, the professor stammered, "Someone was relying on somebody else," adding, as if in moral afterthought, "and everyone thought they were doing the right thing." It was the authentic cry of the blame-shedder down the ages. It wasn't us, ma'm, we were only obeying orders and collecting salaries.
The Queen clearly felt that not since Ethelred the Unready had her office been so blatantly let down by those paid to guard its security. Once upon a time the gallows would have beckoned. Now the Queen wanted only to know what the hell had gone wrong. She gets nothing but sycophancy from her privy counsellors, so why not ask those paid to watch the entrails of the sacred geese, the economists? How had they allowed this monumental screw-up?
Aha, ahem, said the director of research, Professor Luis Garicano. He had clearly been briefed to chat about the weather, corgis and perhaps the Grand National. He had certainly not expected an upper cut to the jaw. Monarchs are not supposed to ask leading questions, even when the nation is screaming for an answer.
With his vocation suddenly on trial, the professor stammered, "Someone was relying on somebody else," adding, as if in moral afterthought, "and everyone thought they were doing the right thing." It was the authentic cry of the blame-shedder down the ages. It wasn't us, ma'm, we were only obeying orders and collecting salaries.
The Queen clearly felt that not since Ethelred the Unready had her office been so blatantly let down by those paid to guard its security. Once upon a time the gallows would have beckoned. Now the Queen wanted only to know what the hell had gone wrong. She gets nothing but sycophancy from her privy counsellors, so why not ask those paid to watch the entrails of the sacred geese, the economists? How had they allowed this monumental screw-up?
Yes, I know that many people had already noticed, but I think she was moreso hinting at the constant denials of any problem. I just wish I'd been there to see that economist squirming ;D
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