Bremner, Bird & Fortune - We're All Poor Now

[@rickorider]

This over 13 years ago but could be today! Absolutely brilliant!

[@fireflyrobert]

It's spot on

[@rickorider]

@@fireflyrobert History doesn't change..were are still doing the same today!

[@brianrodney712]

I remember when I was a lad growing up in Yorkshire just after the war ended. The family and friends would sometimes be sitting round the table sharing a meal and discussing topics of the day much like Bird and Fortune. If we ran out of topics we could always get ideas from the newspaper out of which we would be eating our chips.

[@Fleshious]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@xxCorinnaxx]

"It's Bono I think"

[@CHEAFRO]

i have had one of those conversations before with people who think they are smart, sophisticated and cultured and i thought what a waste of life

[@gutplucker]

wonderful stuff

[@Thrawn369]

"The only people who did well out of that were Hitler and Mussolini" "Well those were were redeeming features I suppose, but where are we supposed to find our Mussolini?"

[@michaellangridge7679]

Ump

[@davidsheriff8989]

Very relevant...

[@brianoneill4910]

‘Le clef de vivvvvvvvvrrrrrreeeeeee…….’, almost chokes! 😂

[@chrisp4170]

Mrs Doyle from Father Ted?

[@PianoSonata]

I thought it was a wondrous.. but after all, I am a Post-Doc in Economics.

[@Sawrattan]

Reminds me of the Monkey Dust sketches of the yuppies having diner.

[@sarahamy7496]

The Lake Isle of Innisfree was written by W. B. Yeats

[@timothyblake9213]

I think perhaps the joke sailed straight past you

[@smitchfencing]

just like my parents dinner parties

[@nicholasroberts6954]

What's "A dinner party" ?

[@PianoSonata]

At times, yes!

[@unsealedabsurdfiles]

An exposure of the tory voter mindset

[@PianoSonata]

@paddymourinho Heavens! Well, I see you lack your Ph.D.

[@adi87tya]

@Balrog3041 Well actually it's the fault of corporatism, where government gets in bed with big corporations and allows monopolies to happen when they really shouldn't be there. In a truly capitalist society, such a thing wouldn't happen.

[@jeromerex17]

Monopolies arise easily and normally in capitalism. It requires government intervention to prevent them or to break them up if they have already occurred. John D. Rockefeller the founder of Rockefeller dynasty monopolised the US oil industry. At one stage his company owned 90% of US oil wells. He did this by buying up refineries and pipelines. Then he blackmailed well owners to sell their wells to him by saying if you don't I won't refine your oil and so no one will buy it. Eventually the government broke up his company into 7 separate pieces each one of which became the oil giants of today.

[@jeromerex17]

Unfortunately while anti trust laws exist to prevent new monopolies arising and to break them up when they do arise for decades now these laws are rarely enforced by US governments. It's in this way that governments collude with corporations. It's unregulated capitalism that leads to monopoly and government intervention which is necessary to fight it. But with Wall Street effectively controlling our government that is no longer going to happen. BTW the President most responsible for anti trust laws and breaking up monopolies was Theodore Roosevelt.

[@PorouAriki]

Dull and not humorous at all!!!!