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I have been rather busy but am back now.
Sorry about the break
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And you can rely on it. I am not a politician!!!
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008
THE WHITEHALL FARCE
OK I do not like politicians. I do not trust them with my money. I do think they are just interested in Number One.
But the latest developments confirm where the Whitehall Farces got their name from!
You will of course be aware that an inquiry has been called into the way MPs claim expenses. This is because it would appear that some have been rather less than scrupulous about what they claim. (You will notice I am being very kind here)
As a result of this, the speaker in the House of Commons has been placed in charge of the committee putting forward a report to overhaul the system. Almost at once reports came to light suggesting that the speaker himself was also involved in questionable behaviour over expenses. His wife's taxi fares of over £4,000 being an example. As a result of this there have been calls for him to resign as speaker. This job is such easy money he is of course reluctant to do so.
However the scene in the House yesterday was a total disgrace. The speaker was treated like a hero! They let him know they adored him. As he shouted "Order! Order!" there was a chorus of cheers from the Labour benches as if he was a returning God. I even saw one MP get up and tell him how wonderful he was! Yes, really!
I just ask myself if this sickening sight was anything to do with the fact that this is the man putting in the report about their expenses. He holds the purse strings in a way.
Choose how you look at all this there is something very smelly about the whole thing. Because at the end of the day the people that have the final say on MPs expenses are going to be MPs!
There is an easy way to clear this up. Make these people put in a receipt for everything and stop them employing their own family at taxpayers expense.
But they do not want to put in a receipt.
Now why would that be?
But the latest developments confirm where the Whitehall Farces got their name from!
You will of course be aware that an inquiry has been called into the way MPs claim expenses. This is because it would appear that some have been rather less than scrupulous about what they claim. (You will notice I am being very kind here)
As a result of this, the speaker in the House of Commons has been placed in charge of the committee putting forward a report to overhaul the system. Almost at once reports came to light suggesting that the speaker himself was also involved in questionable behaviour over expenses. His wife's taxi fares of over £4,000 being an example. As a result of this there have been calls for him to resign as speaker. This job is such easy money he is of course reluctant to do so.
However the scene in the House yesterday was a total disgrace. The speaker was treated like a hero! They let him know they adored him. As he shouted "Order! Order!" there was a chorus of cheers from the Labour benches as if he was a returning God. I even saw one MP get up and tell him how wonderful he was! Yes, really!
I just ask myself if this sickening sight was anything to do with the fact that this is the man putting in the report about their expenses. He holds the purse strings in a way.
Choose how you look at all this there is something very smelly about the whole thing. Because at the end of the day the people that have the final say on MPs expenses are going to be MPs!
There is an easy way to clear this up. Make these people put in a receipt for everything and stop them employing their own family at taxpayers expense.
But they do not want to put in a receipt.
Now why would that be?
Sunday, 30 December 2007
GOING--- GOING--- GONG
So where are the top New Year's honours going to this year?
Let me guess--to multi-millionaire's?
Spot on!
And how did I know? Because multi-millionaire's always get them. Indeed it seems to me that the government has a secret plan to exclude "normal" people.
Saved someone's life? Bad luck pal, the top honours are for people who have spent their lives making themselves rich. If you are very lucky you may get scraps from the table. But the real gongs go to the wealthy.
An examination of the 21 new Knights Bachelor tells an interesting tale.
16 seem to be civil servants of some sort. These are of course the top dogs, not the kind of person that gets their hands dirty. And they have spent their lives living off your tax.
4 are captains of industry. These are very very rich people whose target in life has been to earn more & more cash. An example of this is Stuart Rose, the boss of Marks & Spencer. I do not understand what he has done to earn this. He has certainly brought stacks of clothes in from low cost countries at the cost of British jobs but I cannot see how this helps the economy. If M&S were not selling these products someone else would so how have extra jobs been created?
Then there is ofcourse Michael Parkinson. Now Michael cannot be a bad chap. After all, like myself and her ladyship he comes from God's own county. But exactly what has he done to become Sir Michael? He is on TV talking to actors etc. when they have something to sell. Both he and his guests have made an awful lot of money out of this. Great. I have no problem with that. But why does that make him a Knight over the fireman that has saved a life?
Is our society really at the stage where celebrities are more important than life?
I am old enough to remember when the Beatles got an award and old soldiers who had seen their comrades die in battle sent their awards back in protest.
What a long way we have come since then.
But have we come down the right road?
As a nation we should be getting back to basics with the important things in life.
Should not these awards lead us in this direction?
Let me guess--to multi-millionaire's?
Spot on!
And how did I know? Because multi-millionaire's always get them. Indeed it seems to me that the government has a secret plan to exclude "normal" people.
Saved someone's life? Bad luck pal, the top honours are for people who have spent their lives making themselves rich. If you are very lucky you may get scraps from the table. But the real gongs go to the wealthy.
An examination of the 21 new Knights Bachelor tells an interesting tale.
16 seem to be civil servants of some sort. These are of course the top dogs, not the kind of person that gets their hands dirty. And they have spent their lives living off your tax.
4 are captains of industry. These are very very rich people whose target in life has been to earn more & more cash. An example of this is Stuart Rose, the boss of Marks & Spencer. I do not understand what he has done to earn this. He has certainly brought stacks of clothes in from low cost countries at the cost of British jobs but I cannot see how this helps the economy. If M&S were not selling these products someone else would so how have extra jobs been created?
Then there is ofcourse Michael Parkinson. Now Michael cannot be a bad chap. After all, like myself and her ladyship he comes from God's own county. But exactly what has he done to become Sir Michael? He is on TV talking to actors etc. when they have something to sell. Both he and his guests have made an awful lot of money out of this. Great. I have no problem with that. But why does that make him a Knight over the fireman that has saved a life?
Is our society really at the stage where celebrities are more important than life?
I am old enough to remember when the Beatles got an award and old soldiers who had seen their comrades die in battle sent their awards back in protest.
What a long way we have come since then.
But have we come down the right road?
As a nation we should be getting back to basics with the important things in life.
Should not these awards lead us in this direction?
Saturday, 22 December 2007
10 CHRISTMAS WISHES
I have a list of 10 things I would like to happen for Christmas. I am certain that none of them will. But we all have a dream. Here is mine--
1) No more adverts for sofa's on the telly. Honest guys I do not want to buy one & I am sick to my back teeth of them.
2) No more adverts for beds on the telly. This is a fairly new phenomenon & I am bored already.
3) While on the subject I am dreading the usual deluge of "Sale" ads and the BBC showing footage on the news of people who have been queueing outside a shop in London for 3 days. We have seen it all before.Like every year for the last 25 years. Give it a miss. Please.
4) I wish for a wage limit on Premier League footballers so normal people could afford to see a game. Come to think of it that might not work. How could the poor dears manage on £50,000 a week. Silly me.
5) I wish my Wyre Forest council would stop the vendetta against Bewdley Town Football Club. They could instead use some common sense & leave them alone.
6) I wish people who are too lazy to re-cycle be fined £100 a week. Bet they would be all for saving the world then instead of destroying it.
7) I wish the council would increase the council tax in line with inflation. Now I really am being silly!!
8) I wish the bin & re-cycle teams would put the bins & boxes back in the proper place instead of all over the footpaths.
9) I wish politicians would learn to say "Yes" and "No"
They should know that when they prevaricate no one believes what they say.
10)I wish it would snow on Christmas day. How wonderful would it be to wake up to a foot of snow. Then it really would be Christmas!
In case you do not hear from me again before the big day---have a great Christmas You deserve it!!
1) No more adverts for sofa's on the telly. Honest guys I do not want to buy one & I am sick to my back teeth of them.
2) No more adverts for beds on the telly. This is a fairly new phenomenon & I am bored already.
3) While on the subject I am dreading the usual deluge of "Sale" ads and the BBC showing footage on the news of people who have been queueing outside a shop in London for 3 days. We have seen it all before.Like every year for the last 25 years. Give it a miss. Please.
4) I wish for a wage limit on Premier League footballers so normal people could afford to see a game. Come to think of it that might not work. How could the poor dears manage on £50,000 a week. Silly me.
5) I wish my Wyre Forest council would stop the vendetta against Bewdley Town Football Club. They could instead use some common sense & leave them alone.
6) I wish people who are too lazy to re-cycle be fined £100 a week. Bet they would be all for saving the world then instead of destroying it.
7) I wish the council would increase the council tax in line with inflation. Now I really am being silly!!
8) I wish the bin & re-cycle teams would put the bins & boxes back in the proper place instead of all over the footpaths.
9) I wish politicians would learn to say "Yes" and "No"
They should know that when they prevaricate no one believes what they say.
10)I wish it would snow on Christmas day. How wonderful would it be to wake up to a foot of snow. Then it really would be Christmas!
In case you do not hear from me again before the big day---have a great Christmas You deserve it!!
Monday, 26 November 2007
James brathwaite
Quangos are unelected bodies appointed by the government whose aim seems to be to spend as much of your tax money as fast as they can.
Yet another example of this is James Brathwaite who is listed as a mere part timer at the South East England Development Agency. We can only assume this means getting foreign firms to invest in the London area instead of where the money is needed in the north,Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland.
The London area is very rich already -- these other places are where the jobs and investment should go.
However to get back to the story--Brathwaite has spent £51,489 on taxis & chauffeur driven cars.
Think about that £51,489 of your tax money.
Bearing in mind that he is only part time this means he has spent £343 a day!! This assumes he has taken no holiday!!
Bloody hell how can he have done any work? He must have spent all day driving about to run up such a bill. He could not have had time to get out of the taxis.
When is this crap government going to do something about all this?
Never. Waste is their middle name.
Perhaps Brathwaite has never heard of a bus that normal people use.
But why should he think of a bus when you are paying for his taxi?
Keep on paying suckers!
Yet another example of this is James Brathwaite who is listed as a mere part timer at the South East England Development Agency. We can only assume this means getting foreign firms to invest in the London area instead of where the money is needed in the north,Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland.
The London area is very rich already -- these other places are where the jobs and investment should go.
However to get back to the story--Brathwaite has spent £51,489 on taxis & chauffeur driven cars.
Think about that £51,489 of your tax money.
Bearing in mind that he is only part time this means he has spent £343 a day!! This assumes he has taken no holiday!!
Bloody hell how can he have done any work? He must have spent all day driving about to run up such a bill. He could not have had time to get out of the taxis.
When is this crap government going to do something about all this?
Never. Waste is their middle name.
Perhaps Brathwaite has never heard of a bus that normal people use.
But why should he think of a bus when you are paying for his taxi?
Keep on paying suckers!
Thursday, 22 November 2007
PAUL GRAY
Paul Gray has been boss of the tax authority for just 9 months.
He may have been in charge for a very short time but he has one hell of a record.
There have been 2 strikes during that time,it is reported there are hundreds of thousands of unopened tax returns in the offices & he has got rid of thousands of staff that should be dealing with them.
And now has lost 25 million private records of peoples bank details and NI numbers.
One hell of a record in 9 months.
He did not have any control of what was going on and has now walked away from it all.
However not without lining his own nest--just look at this.
His pay in the last tax year rose by 6%. When the government is telling us we should only have a small rise & they are cutting thousands of jobs to save money.
He was getting about £170,000 a year.
He is due to get a pension of £95,000 a year and his total pension pot is £1,786,000.
Made a fortune out of us from being a dead loss then.
I see he also makes money out of keeping sheep.
Well he could do with a good flocking!
He may have been in charge for a very short time but he has one hell of a record.
There have been 2 strikes during that time,it is reported there are hundreds of thousands of unopened tax returns in the offices & he has got rid of thousands of staff that should be dealing with them.
And now has lost 25 million private records of peoples bank details and NI numbers.
One hell of a record in 9 months.
He did not have any control of what was going on and has now walked away from it all.
However not without lining his own nest--just look at this.
His pay in the last tax year rose by 6%. When the government is telling us we should only have a small rise & they are cutting thousands of jobs to save money.
He was getting about £170,000 a year.
He is due to get a pension of £95,000 a year and his total pension pot is £1,786,000.
Made a fortune out of us from being a dead loss then.
I see he also makes money out of keeping sheep.
Well he could do with a good flocking!
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
LABOUR FAILS
THE GOVERNMENT STRIKES AGAIN.
It seems that a few people in the country thought this government was good & true & honest.
These people were ofcourse locked up in a mad house.
However to confirm the thoughts of the majority they have really pulled off a master stroke this time. They have lost millions of records which contain confidential information such as bank details etc. And the boss has left---just run away. How much of our tax money will he get paid for leaving? I shudder to think.
Could you believe that a government department only has one copy of such important stuff?
This is the government which is refusing to confirm we will get all our billions back from Northern Rock.
At least even the people in the mad house now fail to believe.
It seems that a few people in the country thought this government was good & true & honest.
These people were ofcourse locked up in a mad house.
However to confirm the thoughts of the majority they have really pulled off a master stroke this time. They have lost millions of records which contain confidential information such as bank details etc. And the boss has left---just run away. How much of our tax money will he get paid for leaving? I shudder to think.
Could you believe that a government department only has one copy of such important stuff?
This is the government which is refusing to confirm we will get all our billions back from Northern Rock.
At least even the people in the mad house now fail to believe.
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