How It’s Done Overseas (North Korean Edition)
The Guardian yesterday had this marvellously heartwarming story:
North Korea has executed a senior official blamed for currency reforms that damaged the already ailing economy and potentially affected the succession, a news agency in South Korea reported today. Pak Nam-gi was killed by firing squad last week, said Yonhap, citing multiple sources. The Workers party chief for planning and the economy had not been seen in public since January. The 77-year-old was put to death as “a son of a bourgeois conspiring to infiltrate the ranks of revolutionaries to destroy the national economy”, the agency said.
It’s much along the lines of what most of us would like to see happen to Gordoom.
Stock Tip O’ The Day: buy North Korean piano wire shares before our election in case we need to import some quickly.
The only problem with doing the same here, is who would make the decision? Gordoom IS the top man! Although I suppose he could always sentence himself – on the basis that most of his financial destruction was carried out as Chancellor of the Exchequer…..
As he’s been Chancellor and PM, it might even mean we get to shoot him twice!
Blimey, they are still blaming the bougeois 50 years after their Rubbish Revolution? Must be desperate but certainly onto a winner there in how to treat failed economic policy makers.