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I don't understand why everyone thinks that cu...

2009-09-10T00:28:45.361+01:00

I don't understand why everyone thinks that cutting the food subsidy in Westminster is such a good idea.

Of those people who work in Westminster, about 2/3rds are either central staff, MP's staff, or interns. Interns get lunch paid for their expenses (or should be). Central staff will soon get a pay raise for the increased cost of their lunch, and the MP staff will eventually get one too when their pay is reviewed in line with the parliamentary pay scales.

Hence, a false economy. Most workplaces, and certainly those big ones where long nights and early mornings are not uncommon, have subsidised food. This includes several areas of the civil service, such as the restaurant in Thames House, which I'm told serves an excellent Chicken Madras. I must admit I don't see why Westminster should be any different.

If he wants to save money, win the election and bu...

2009-09-08T22:39:44.740+01:00

If he wants to save money, win the election and bugger UKIP, then he ought to have a vote on Europe.

If you weren't 18 in 1975, you won't have had a vote on Europe. Period. So, unless you are 52 years old, you won't have had a say.

So, the European Parliament, with the accounts that have not been passed by the auditors for 14 years is out of your hands.

He says he will drop the ID card scheme - that's a start.

"We must all now come together, play our part...

2009-09-08T13:15:51.232+01:00

"We must all now come together, play our part, carry our burden and pay our fair share."

Well my fair share is a nice round sum: £0. I didn't vote for the dicks who racked up all the Government debt, and I sure as hell aren't responsible for all the w*nkers who got more credit cards than they could afford and bought a bloody great big house at the top of the market.

How is paying for other peoples' profligacy carrying our burden and paying our fair share?

Let Labour voters pick up the tab.

"And that starts at the very top – with polit...

2009-09-08T12:44:26.192+01:00

"And that starts at the very top – with politicians cutting the cost of politics."

This is a brilliant line - please, please, please let it be true:

https://www.politics.co.uk/news/foreign-policy/govt-funds-unions-with-taxpayer-money-$1325366.htm

The government gives "foreign aid" money to groups in the UK which then fund the government party to get elected again - but that's fine, and if you think it's corrupt then you must be a "nasty right" wing hack.

Gestures. Sensible enough gestures. But gestures n...

2009-09-08T12:41:34.031+01:00

Gestures. Sensible enough gestures. But gestures nonetheless. Where is the meat? Where the hell is the meat? Where is the chopper really going to fall? And is the man for real comparing Electoral Commissions with India?