Is Frederick Forsyth a communist?

No of course he’s not.

But disrupted by the weather, I caught a bit of the Daily Politics this week and was staggered to hear Frederick Forsyth positively raging about how bankers have got away with it and the establishment is protecting them despite collecting tens of millions in salaries and bonuses whilst they presided over the failure of our banks.

It sounds like he’s tapped in to the feelings of the man in the street (or in his case the bridle path). I recently also had the pleasure of hearing Vince Cable speak. Apart from some fascinating views on the creation of “narrow” banks ie. banks which only take deposits and lend money (now there’s a thought!), he mentioned how his constituents in Twickenham come up to him and rage about bankers, and when he looks under their arm they’re carrying not The Morning Star but The Daily Telegraph!

I suspect that bankers haven’t got away with it! This story is bubbling away and will boil over at some point.

Ash Mehta