I've already given an opinion on £ 80k managers ... fire the lot of them! The only people who will notice the difference would be the bean-counters who issue the pay-cheques.
But if I ever get called upon to eat my shorts, I shall be expecting the Barbeque Sauce to be funded out of the generous severance package that any redundancy will no doubt provide.
Those of us on £ 22k (or less) in the Private Sector don't get that, you know. We just get told:- "Sorry, Mate ..."
etc., etc.Meanwhile, whilst you are counting your blessings, I don't believe
any figures spewed out by the government (
any government) myself, Dave. Do you?
But how about taking a peek at the Bigger Picture?
Let's pretend, just for a moment, that we all enjoy a healthcare system that is "the envy of the world", alongside Armed Forces that "are the best in the world" ("punching above their weight" and all the rest), a "social security" system that funds "lifestyle choices" from the "cradle to the grave", a wonderful police "service" (that doesn't protect us), fire and rescue services manned by blokes with two jobs, and whom we pay to sleep, "welcoming" lost souls from across the world running from
something or other in the lands of their birth ... I could go on, but I expect you catch my drift ...
... all that (and more) has to be paid for
somehow. So, where does all that funding come from? Where is the Wealth created? All that from a country which doesn't actually produce anything of any substance (apart, that is, from battalions of disaffected youngsters)?
I don't support
any particular political party. To my mind they are all a bunch of shysters. However ... I like to believe I have sufficient common sense to realise that, when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. Can anyone doubt that we, as a country, could have simply carried on as a nation, recklessly spending money that we didn't have, on causes often bordering on lunacy?
