New Bank of England Gov’s wife needs to be told to MYOB

There was nothing in Mark Carney’s job description as Governor of the Bank of England allowing his wife, Diana Fox Carney to tell Brits what products they could use at home.

Carney, a Canadian draftee, has only been on the job a short three days and already his Mrs. is on a crusade to ban tea bags.

The British-born Diana Fox Carney was already on the public radar before arriving back on British soil with tweeted complaints of not being able to find a decent place to live in the UK--in spite of a generous taxpayer-paid allowance of more than $388,300.

Self-styled enviro activists always come in with the loudest of whines.

From her list of environmental Dos and Don’ts, you’d think that the entire British population had been sitting back waiting to know that teabags are one of Mrs. Carney’s “pet hates” because they’re harmful to the planet. “Yes, they can be pretty, and convenient, but do we really need an extra 40cm2 of bleached and printed paper with every cup of tea,” she arrogantly asks in blatherings on her internet blog.

Thus far no one has stepped forward to say that the privilege of talking down to Brits after living abroad in Canada doesn’t come with the turf of being married to the Governor of the Bank of England.

Like it or not, Brits are going to get a dose of Madam’s opinion.

The Daily Mail-dubbed “eco warrior” has been trying to tell other people how to live on her 320-followers strong protected Twitter account.

In other words, she can come on like a dictator to you, but you can’t get in to tell her off.

Even though Carney is now urging people not to buy beauty products from China, we’re sure you are just dying to know that “not a make-up person”, she admits to a weakness for lipstick and to occasionally powdering her nose.

There, doesn’t that make you feel better about the new Governor of the Bank of England’s better half?

Powdering her nose would be much better than sticking it in to other people’s business.

Loading down citizens on both sides of the pond with way too many personal details, the eco-activist runs a website called ‘Eco-products that Work’ where she discusses her personal preference for all-natural “crystal deodorant”; her hobby for cutting up “forlorn sweaters” to make mittens, and the success she has had in gardening with cow dung. (DailyMail)

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For some, “cow dung” will automatically spring to mind when thinking about Carney, who sounds like a perfect candidate to top the MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) 101 list.

Darling of the moment in the banking world, Mark Carney steered Canada’s monetary policy since February, 2008 and seems to have been given the British bank governorship for earning Canadian brownie points. Few seem to have have noticed that the ‘Golden Boy of Global Banking’, is also a former Goldman Sachs investment banker.

While in Canada, as The Telegraph pointed out, his Mrs. “has expressed sympathy for the anti-bank Occupy movement. The London paper pointed out that in a Nov. 19 iPolitics piece, Ms. Carney deemed income inequality the “defining issue of our time” and went on to opine she believes people “fear that the institutions that underpin our country and the global system are either threatened, rotten or inadequate to face down the challenges of the future”.

Interesting to note that she didn’t include that she was long-married to an institution guy.

It’s not as though the Carneys can claim they truly know how the other half lives.

While in Canada the Carneys lived in a $1.3-million mansion in Ottawa’s tony Rockcliffe Park, making $151,000 worth of improvements in 2009.

Mrs. Carney is a devotee of The Spirit Level, a left-leaning book espoused by British Labour leader Ed Miliband and derided by the Taxpayers Alliance as an “absurd” polemic that promotes higher taxes on the rich.

Brits hoping that his wife’s eco-warrior ways won’t rub off on the new British bank governor can see her influence in Mark Carney’s own words when he called the Occupy movement “constructive” in an August, 2012 speech.

Diana Fox Carney is proof positive that employers should include a ‘Your-Wife-Doesn’t-Work-Here’ clause in employee job descriptions.

Meanwhile, Britain can expect to hear a lot more from Mrs. Carney than Mr. Carney during the next destined to be long five years.

Update:

‘I am not anti tea bag’: As Carney takes helm of Bank of England, British media pounces on his ‘left-leaning’ wife

Diana Carney was not doing interviews the day after her husband assumed his new role as governor of the Bank of England. But the Britain-born environmentalist, who is not shy to make her views known no matter what job Mark Carney holds, did wish to make one thing clear after a rash of press about her in Britain over the weekend.

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