Friday, November 03, 2006
Priorities of opposition.
Today in The Times we have two important stories. The first here reports on the parlous state of our overstretched armed forces. Of course this is a disgrace, and it's not like we haven't known for some time now about commitments, so there can be no excuse.
The second report here highlights the million pound salaries of our publicservants masters. I quote: "... second-highest earner is Adam Crozier, the group chief executive of Royal Mail, on £1.038 million last year. (He) ... has turned Royal Mail from a loss-making enterprise to a profitable one, (by) ... increasing the price of stamps and cancelling the second delivery." Yes well in a market with no competitors, any fool can turn a profit by increasing price and cutting service.
The Times report concentrates on the big figures, but don't think it doesn't affect you locally too. I reported here on a director of the local council being paid £98,000.00p. Note the figure, just below the magic £100,000.00p so as to keep it off the radar, but not enough to make any significant difference to the lucky recipient of public (our) largesse. I'd wager my salary against any one of theirs that if a report were to be prepared on public salaries between ninety and one hundred thousand pounds we'd probably find quite a lot fitting snugly into this bracket.
Anyway with all this ammunition, what's the leader of the opposition doing? Well I'm sorry to say it's more "hug a hoodie" time. Look Cameron, I'll make it simple for you, come the next general election I'll be voting, I expect our troops to be supported, I expect low taxes, as for teenagers and other children it's nothing to do with the state so it won't even figure in my calculations of who to vote for - unless I'm thinking about which politicians prattle on about irrelevancies.
Winston Churchill once famously said, "give us the tools and we shall finish the job". Labour are giving you so much ammunition to attack them with but you sit back and worry about teenagers who think you "don't know your a*** from your elbow". You don't have much chance of getting their vote anyway, so you may as well try for mine.
The second report here highlights the million pound salaries of our public
The Times report concentrates on the big figures, but don't think it doesn't affect you locally too. I reported here on a director of the local council being paid £98,000.00p. Note the figure, just below the magic £100,000.00p so as to keep it off the radar, but not enough to make any significant difference to the lucky recipient of public (our) largesse. I'd wager my salary against any one of theirs that if a report were to be prepared on public salaries between ninety and one hundred thousand pounds we'd probably find quite a lot fitting snugly into this bracket.
Anyway with all this ammunition, what's the leader of the opposition doing? Well I'm sorry to say it's more "hug a hoodie" time. Look Cameron, I'll make it simple for you, come the next general election I'll be voting, I expect our troops to be supported, I expect low taxes, as for teenagers and other children it's nothing to do with the state so it won't even figure in my calculations of who to vote for - unless I'm thinking about which politicians prattle on about irrelevancies.
Winston Churchill once famously said, "give us the tools and we shall finish the job". Labour are giving you so much ammunition to attack them with but you sit back and worry about teenagers who think you "don't know your a*** from your elbow". You don't have much chance of getting their vote anyway, so you may as well try for mine.
