Prats of The Week - Councils

Ooh err missus!

Tis time methinks to award another of my prestigious, and internationally renowned, "Prats of The Week" Awards.

This week it goes to our "beloved" and "respected" local councils in general.

For why?

Well my old muckers it seems that, despite the recession and the new age of austerity, councils across the land cannot resist spending bucket loads of our hard earned cash on worthless shite.

A Freedom of Information request has brought to light oodles of daft expenditures (is that English?) eg:

- Hillingdon paid RADA £2,700 to give a Cabinet Member "executive coaching" sessions
- Lewisham spent £300 on a "using social media" day for one person
- Kensington and Chelsea and Brent spent money (at "no cost" to the taxpayer) on in-house Blackberry courses for councillors
 - Ealing sent someone to Chichester for a "Fruit and Vegetables in Public Gardens" conference
 - Kingston-upon-Thames spent money on an internally-run "key fob training seminar"
 - Richmond sent someone to Cardiff for a training course on sex licensing establishments etc

I dare say that were we and the councils earning bucketloads of cash (and a portion of that bucketload was put away for a rainy day) then spending money on such courses etc may be beneficial (or at least harmless) in a growing economy. However, we are in a recession and during the times of plenty Broon and his chums in the councils never put anything away for today's rainy day.


Therefore I would conclude that councils simply do not get it wrt the financial state that we are in.


Councils are the enemies of the people, and well deserving Pats of The Week!




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The Non Jobs

In 2003 (yes that many years ago!) I wrote the following on my "In Your Face" site:

"...The jobs being created in the state sector are not “front line” jobs such as; nurses, doctors or teachers. They are newly invented bureaucratic creations; risk officers, empowerment managers etc. None of these positions actually “adds value” to the quality of life in the UK...

..The state, unlike the private sector which is not shielded from economic reality, is inherently wasteful. A report issued in the last few days highlighted the fact that the state sector wastes £70BN a year; that is the equivalent of over 10p in the rate of income tax! On a personal level I can attest to this waste; on applying for a senior position recently in the state I was sent by post an information pack exceeding 200 pages, no private sector employer would ever dream of being so wasteful.

It is a matter of great concern to me and should be to the citizens of the UK that the Chancellor, despite being an intelligent individual, appears to be possessed by the old socialist disease of political dogma; namely:

'State good, private bad'.

This disease is clearly deadening his ability to see that the current path that the UK is taking, in building up the state at the expense of the private sector, is in fact the 'road to nowhere'."

Somewhat prescient wouldn't you say?

Here we are in 2011, and the penny has finally dropped that all the extra money that Brown lavished on the public sector has been wasted.

Local authorities have taken on an extra 180,000 workers since 1997, with the total number not employed in traditional front-line roles now standing at almost 750,000.

Bob Neill, the local government minister, has said:

"Crazy non-jobs like cheerleading development officers and press officers tasked with spinning propaganda on bin collections provide no value to the public."

The number of people employed by local authorities in Britain stood at 2,728,000 in 1997 when Labour came to power. Last year the figure was 2,907,000.

Among the jobs that have been created by the boom in 'non-jobs' were a 'bouncy castle attendant' (£13K per year) at Angus council and a 'cheerleading development officer' in Falkirk.

The crusade by the coalition against non jobs is all very well, but why did they not start their crusade years ago?

It's not as though I didn't warn them is it?

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Advice To David Cameron

Sent to David Cameron this morning:

"David

For what it is worth, here is my view on the possibility of a Lib-Lab coalition.

Let them have their "coalition of losers".

Within six months, if that, it will fall apart as a result of unreasonable demands made by minority regional parties and the "swivel eyed" members of the Liberal party.

The public will see through this quickly enough as being nothing more than a mechanism to keep Brown in office as PM.

Once it has fallen apart, and an election held, the Tory party will gain the majority it needs to govern without having to go cap in hand to Clegg.

Kind regards

Ken Frost"

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Hello Young Lovers

Whilst Cameron and Clegg woo each other, and an angry Scotsman sits alone in his bunker, it should be remembered that an economic tsunami is heading our way.

This, if it is not addressed swiftly by national governments (btw we need to form one soon very quickly), will be far worse than the last banking crisis that was visited upon us.

Be warned the "perfect storm" of:

- PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain) collapsing one by one
- The lack of a government in the UK
- The collapse in the Dow
- The blood sucking squid investigation
- Civil blood makes civil hands unclean (across Europe)

will bring the world's banking system to the very edge of freezing up (ie no cash in the cash machines).

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Well Hung!

Well my loyal readers, it seems that we are facing a hung parliament.

Gordon Brown, despite being clearly the loser, will desperately cling on to power in Downing Street. Meanwhile the economy will collapse, and we face turning into a cold/damp climate version of Greece (see my views on what we should do with Greece on www.loanbuster.net).

Despite all the hooplah over "boy Clegg", the Liberal Democrats have managed to perform less well than they did in the last election. However, they appear to be under the illusion that they have the right to act as "king makers".

On the ground we saw clear evidence that 13 years of ZaNuLabour have turned us into a third world country, unable to even print enough ballot papers for people to vote with.

The final piece of icing on the cake is that whoever cobbles together some form of "government" will inevitably have to call another election before the end of the year.

Welcome to the third world!

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A Nation of Bigots

I see that in the eyes of the Nanny In Chief (Broon) that to express concerns (in calm, coherent way) about taxes, the deficit and immigration makes one a bigot.

Hmmm...well that pretty well condemns most of the population then!

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I Predict a Riot

I have been gemused with how all of the main political parties would have us believe that a vote for "the other lot" would cause financial chaos.

Well, that has been rather blown apart by the unsurprising revelation that none of the main political parties are being entirely "honest" (politics and honesty do not go hand in hand) with the long suffering electorate.

It seems that were the political parties to actually implement their manifesto "promises", wrt cutting the deficit and not raising taxes, then we will see cuts in public expenditure the like of which have not been witnessed since the Second World War (if Tory) or the dark days of the Labour government of the 70's (if Liberal or Labour).

Were the parties inclined to minimise the cuts, if they want to get the economy back in good shape, then they will have to raise taxes to unprecedented levels.

I could of course point out that had Brown not frittered away the surplus revenues during times of plenty, on hiking public sector pay and on the fees of consultants, we might be in better shape now.

However, we are where we are and we cannot put the clock back.

Either way given that the tax payers are already massively overburdened, and that the country as a whole seems totally reliant on the state to wipe its collective bottom, the results of the cuts and tax rises will provoke civil unrest not seen since the 70's.

For what it is worth, I don't think we should get too stressed out by the debt levels. They are manageable.

What is actually required is a whole scale restructuring, and re design, of the public sector ie:

- public sector pensions
- pay
- what it is actually meant to do
- simplification of the tax system (see www.hmrcisshite.com for my views on what needs to be done)
- simplification of the benefits system
- a return to self responsibility and a recognition that actions have consequences

However, none of the political parties have the stones to do that.

I predict a riot whichever bunch of BS artists gets in!

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The Scanners Are Coming

I amused to see that our "beloved" PM Gordon "Smiler" Brown has authorised the installation of body scanners, at all of the UK's airports, in response to the threat posed by morons who try to detonate their underpants.

Here are a few observations about Brown's "great" plan:

1 Scanners have been considered in the past, and deemed not up to the job.

2 Scanners require a human to spot the "bomb", they are therefore not infallible.

3 Scanners will not pick up certain dangerous substances.

4 Brown has ordered a review of security, with special emphasis on scanners. Yet he has overridden the review, even before it has concluded/reported, and ordered scanners.

Why?

It's an election year, and he has to look "decisive".

5 Body scanners will most likely break Nanny's anti child porn laws.

6 Why waste resources treating all passengers as suspects, when experts in the field of terrorism have stated (time and time again) that the terrorists fit a reasonably "easy to identify" profile?

Nanny is just trying to look busy, to make us think that she is useful to us.

However, do not be too alarmed, as said this is a "directive from Brown himself:

1 Orders from Brown never actually come to fruition.

2 These days orders from the Number 10 bunker carry as much weight as Fuhrer orders did in April 1945.

3 Brown/Labour will cock this up, as they have done every other thing in the past 13 years.

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Harperson's Delusions of Power

Our old "friend" the grandstanding, publicity seeking, self promoting Labour Deputy Leader, Harriet Harperson, has thrust herself into the limelight yet again.

This time she has called for a website (Punternet, a site that a.o. advertises and rates male and female prostitutes) based in California to be banned.

She told the Labour Party Conference that it contained "pages and pages of women for sale in London".

Factoid: It also has "men for sale too".

The "sinister" website "fuels the demand for prostitutes" and puts women at risk:

"There is now a website ... where pimps put women on sale for sex and then men who've had sex with them put their comments on line.

It is PunterNet and fuels the demand for prostitutes. It is the ultimate commodification of women and puts women at risk. It is truly degrading."

It was "a sinister development which we are determined to stop".

Do some research Harperson, the site has been around for years (along with countless other sites advertising prostitutes).

Why, only now, do you call for this one site to be banned?

Why do you only speak up for the women advertised on the site, what about the men?

What about all the other sites that advertise prostitutes? There are thousands of them.

Why have you given Punternet such free publciity ahead of all of the other sites that do the same?

Can a third rate British politician really ban a site based in another country, especially one that has the right to freedom of expression enshrined in its constitution?

Well loyal readers, as you all know...she can't, even the habitually gaffe prone and dim witted Harperson knows that.

So what's the real game here then?

Ah, wait a minute, I see...

Harperson said:

"I've raised it with the US Ambassador to London and I've called on California's governor Arnie Schwarzenegger to close it down.

Surely it can't be too difficult for The Terminator to terminate PunterNet and that's what I'm demanding he does. And if he doesn't, I've got a message for Arnie: I'll be back."

Harperson is clinging to the shroud of "celebrity" hoping that by associating herself with a very well known, and reasonably competent, celebrity and politician, some of his success will rub off on her.

Why the need for association with someone famous?

Harperson is after Broon's job, this gives her some pre election publicity that will (in her view) give her a springboard for taking Broon's job after the election.

Surely the Labour Party has better people than this in its ranks?

Thank "The Sky Fairy" that this miserable excuse for a political party will be out of power for a generation come next May.

Haperson will then have to look for a real job.

Will the private sector employ such a person?

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Sweaty

Gordon Brown looked very sweaty on The Andrew Marr Show this morning, yet it is not that hot in Brighton today.

I also see that Lord Mandelson of Foie Gras has said that he will work for the Tories, if Labour loses and if the Tories want him.

Game Over!

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Nanny's Great Lie II

A report by the top US general in Afghanistan is expected to say that the current military strategy is not working, the BBC understands.

General Stanley McChrystal will liken the US military to a bull charging at a matador [the Taliban] - slightly weakened with each "cut" it receives.

The Afghan people are undergoing a crisis of confidence because the war against the Taliban has not made their lives better.

Is this not what I have been saying?

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Nanny's Great Lie

Richard Holbrooke's "wee bust up" with Karzai yesterday, over election rigging in the Afghanistan elections, blows a very large hole in Nanny's oft stated claim that our troops are dying there in order to establish democracy.

There are a few points I want to make about this:

1 You cannot impose democracy with the barrel of a gun.

2 Afghanistan is a medieval country, still operating under a tribal system. We have not a cat's chance in hell of establishing a democracy there under present conditions.

What did Holbrooke and Nanny seriously expect would happen during these elections?

3 We have had our backsides kicked in the country in the 1800's, and Russia had the same in the 1970's/80's. History has been ignored by the US and UK, and now it is repeating itself.

4 Nanny has imposed "mission creep" (eg cleansing the place of opium fields - legalise drugs and that problem would be eradicated overnight), yet not supplied the right equipment or sufficient personnel to perform even the basic task of hunting down and destroying terrorists.

5 We are going to be stuck in that mess for 40 years, unless we bite the bullet and do what we should do and pull out.

6 The public bust up will of course ensure that whatever the results of the election (even if they are 100% "clean") no one will believe them.

7 Nanny has lied to us from the very start.

8 Brown is most certainly not a war time leader, lacking any form of clear robust decisiveness, or indeed a friend of our armed forces.

9 The MOD's procurement process is a disaster area that should be condemned.

Holbrooke, by making his angst public, has undermined the achievements (Nanny keeps telling us that the troops are there for democracy) of the troops (from all nations) on the ground.

Our troops are dying for an hopeless cause, as a result of the lies and grandiose nation building plans imposed on them by Nanny.

This is the wrong war in the wrong country, we should not be there.

PERIOD!

Send in your uniform.

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Send In Your Uniform

As we know, Nanny is dead keen to start wars in foreign countries on the pretext of introducing "democracy".

A "noble" thought I suppose, if it weren't for a few inconvenient issues eg:

- people get maimed and killed

- you cannot impose democracy with the barrel of a gun

- not every country in the world wants our version of "democracy"

- the financial cost of these wars is crippling

- these wars are suffering from mission creep, as a result of lousy/dishonest political "leadership" from Brown and his toadies

- wrt Afghanistan, if we really are to stand a chance of "democratising" this country (and by the way, I don't think we have a cat's chance in hell - we got our arses kicked in Victorian times there, and the Russians suffered a similar fate at the hands of the US funded Taliban in the 1980's), then we are going to be there for 40 years or more

- once maimed our soldiers don't even get decent treatment, viz Nanny's recent attempt to reduce compensation payments

- the loyalty of our troops is being severely tested, as an unthinking uncaring and thoroughly despicable government sends them on missions without adequate support/kit/equipment etc

In view of the above I heartily endorse the "Send In Your Uniform To Brown" Campaign as per ARRSE:

"This is a protest, driven by the constant betrayals of this government, including ignoring the pleas of Service chiefs for life-saving resources, sending personnel to battle with inadequate or unsafe equipment and vehicles, and this latest kick in the teeth for injured veterans."

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Swine Flu Hotline

I am amused to see Nanny boasting about her new swine flu hotline, where people can ring up call centres manned by non medical personnel (some of them work for supermarket call centres I believe) and self diagnose themselves for a dose of Tamiflu.

Here's why this is a daft idea:

1 Swine flu (a variation of which was around in 1976) does not kill the majority of people infected with it.

2 Flu kills people each year, I see no reason to panic the population into thinking that swine flu is any more dangerous than other varieties of flu.

3 Many people claim they have flu, but in effect are just suffering from a very bad cold.

4 The hotline will be abused by people to stock up on Tamiflu "just in case", or to sell on to others.

5 Tamiflu causes some pretty unpleasant side effects (eg nausea) in around 10% of people who take it. The chances are that swine flu will be less unpleasant.

6 Nanny, by focusing people's minds on swine flu and pretending to take "decisive action", ensures that our attention is taken away from the dismal state of the economy and the God awful Prime Minister that we are saddled with.

Now wash your hands after reading this!

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Brown's Bankrupt Britain

We're skint!

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Wheels Come Off Nanny's Pension Schemes

My views on pensions are here, if you want to depress yourselves.

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Brown's Failed Tripartite System

Ahem, told you!

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The System

Listening to our "walking dead" Prime Minister the other day, prattling on about how "the system" (wrt MPs' expenses) was at fault for the claims for floating duck islands, fake mortgages, moats etc I was struck by how what the PM said exemplifies the very heart of the problem of the Nanny state.

The PM ignored the fundamental issue, it is not the system that is at fault but the people. It was not compulsory for our MPs to claim for duck islands and moats, they did so voluntarily and with gusto!

The PM and these greedy MPs are using the "procedures" argument as a defence, in exactly the same manner that a doctor, social worker, police officer, teacher, FSA CEO or council officer uses "rules and procedures" to justify what they do and to justify their mistakes.

How many times have we heard the phrase "we followed the procedures"?

That is meaningless if the end result is failure/death, or a cold hearted application of a petty rule.

Nanny's rules and procedures proactively encourage people to stop thinking for themselves and taking personal self responsibility for their own actions/mistakes.

The PM so eloquently highlighted (unintentionally) the very weakness at the heart of the Nanny state; namely, no one needs to ever take personal responsibility anymore, so long as they follow procedures.

Without personal responsibility, individuality, risk taking and thinking outside of the box we are most assuredly set on the path to our own self destruction; as we drown in bureaucracy and petty rules, all of which have been designed to suffocate initiative and growth.

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Snouts in The Trough - Tax Avoidance ZaNuLabour

Oooh the sweet irony!:)

Read and enjoy:)

Snouts in The Trough

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Happy St George's Day!

Happy St George's Day everyone!

As we take today to celebrate being English, we can also take a little time to digest yesterday's budget.

A remarkable piece of engineering by Darling and Brown, based on the fantasy that growth will shoot back to 3.5% by 2011. They did what every amateur schoolboy physicist does, make the results fit the theory.

Regrettably for us, living in the real world, growth will not hit 3.5% in 2011 and Darling's "budget" will fall apart.

Aside from the fact that Treasury forecasts are always bollocks, even if they were for once accurate we find ourselves facing a debt of £1 Trillion.

Yes, read that figure again, £1 Trillion!



Given that we are now facing the worst economic situation in living memory, thanks to Brown's debt boom and unwillingness to put something away for a rainy day during the boom times, Nanny's expenditure will have to be cut.

Factoid: I warned about this in July 2003 "The Road To Nowhere - The Delusion of the Burgeoning Public Sector"

The question is will she cut areas that genuinely add no value; eg diversity awareness roles, non jobs in local councils, spin departments, government misinformation films on smoking/eating/boozing, the ego massaging Olympics etc?

This financial disaster, brought to us by ZaNuLabour, does offer an opportunity to roll back the frontiers of the state.

However, the short term effects will be very unpleasant, as all those people who have had their livelihoods paid for by Nanny start to experience the real world. We can expect some very unpleasant confrontations in the coming months, as the reality hits home.

Happy St George's Day!

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