I always enjoyed shooting rabbits because they were so quick on the run. Even better are hares that are built for speed but we can't mention this here - the thought of going out and hunting for your dinner. Much better its all done in an abbattoire away from sight so a celebrity chef can make a glossy presentation on television.
Now, making a fast buck is probably more digestable certainly more commonplace and Ed Milliband has recently been accused of being 'anti-industry' implying Britain is a fast buck society. Ask a hundred kids across the board what they would like to do and you wont be far away from a fast buck answer that television and the media provides.
But with industry it seems we can't win. If you have nationalised industry it grinds to a halt through bureacratic inefficiency and if you have privatised industry the shareholders run away with the profit and you are left with a diminishing service, well in certain industries. I'm not particularly political but I think its a bit of a nerve the Labour mob coming on so strongly so quickly after messing up so badly so recently! A little bit more time would have given them a little grace and also given this new breed of thirty-something 'puppy' politicians time to grow up. A few more years and perhaps a few grey hairs may lead to a realization we have been a fast buck society for quite a long time. Its nothing new.
What Ed Milliband was saying I presume is that greed has runaway in our society and he is daring to hint at the most taboo word in living memory - morality! I must admit I was astounded when Mandelson was reported to have once said he was 'intensely relaxed about people getting filfthy rich' not to mention Tony Blair's extraordinary exploits. 'Filthy' rich? Does this mean dirty money?!
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