UK Prime Minister David Cameron used his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos today to argue against a tax on financial transactions - the so-called Tobin Tax or, for particularly stupid British tabloids, a Robin Hood Tax - saying that it is not the responsibility of the EU to do something that potentially would lead to jobs in Britain being lost.
"This is a reckless act that would lead to Brussels making British people out of work", said Cameron, smugly, "when it is clearly the job of the Conservative Party to make that number of people unemployed. British dole queues for British people!".
"Moreover", continued the man voted as most resembling a slab of reconstituted ham, "we must retain the sovereign right to decide who we put out of work and our friends did not vote for us in order that we hit their bottom line. We were voted in with a semi-sort-of-mandate to put teachers, nurses, bin men and police officers out of work, not those who work in the world of high finance that don't actually produce anything, but earn loads by pushing imaginary currency from here to there. Oh dear me no".
David Cameron is still, somehow, the UK Prime Minister.
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