Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Afternoon all.

I'm all for fiscal prudence; the real kind, not Ooor Gordon's kind. But let it be done with commonsense and common decency.

Firstly politicians should put their own House in order. There's far too many of the beggars for a start. Look at those pix today; can't even find a seat for some of them at PMQs and things were so desperate that they had to leave a 7 months pregnant MP standing.

Then do away with all their allowances. They make a good salary, let them buy their own furnishings and fares. People working for a lot less have to do so. Fix up some kind of YHA dormitory situation for those who have to stay over in Lunnon Town in the week. Cut back those ridiculous holidays and make them nine-til-five it for 48 weeks a year. Close down all the bars - can't have debate and legislation under the influence. Regular peeps would be shown their cards for drinking during work hours.

Refuse to allow them to hire their spouses, offspring and other rellies to staff their offices. Indeed, put all MPs on a low multiple of the NMW. How can they rule sensibly if they have no idea of real life? MPs' salaries should be means-tested, and those with other income get to work for free. Outside jobs should be banned whilst sitting as an MP or earnings taxed at 100%, whichever they prefer. And let there be a lifetime ban on MPs and senior civil servants taking cushy high-paid jobs which their influence has brought them - it smacks of corruption.

Once they've hocked the wine cellar and the limos, parked the artworks in a pay-to-view public gallery and been squeezed til their pips hurt, we can put them on performance related-pay. Or even commission-only, zero hours contracts.

Yup, just like a lot of other people, they will be expected to deliver the moolah into the nation's coffers. Tax-dodging corporations ought to have their dangly bits put in a vise; you wanna do biz in the UK and benefit from everything we provide, from policing to roads? Great; pay up or get out, and we'll confiscate your assets unless we see the colour of your money by the end of the financial year.

We can stop giving overseas aid to certain countries. You have nuclear weapons and a space program? Lovely. Pay for your own paupers, and our citizens can donate their money via charites if they choose. I support Oxfam myself.

We can send the butcher's bill to the USA for the services of our Royal Mercenaries; if they're to fight and bleed and kill for your gains, it's only right someone pays heavily for the privilege.

There's a bunch of overpaid clowns at the BBC who are livin' high on the telly tax from the poorest homes in the land. No organisation needs that many managers........

We could also look at those Saxe-Coburg-Gotha people and see if they have any spare dosh floating around. Or spare palaces, lochs, trout and salmon fisheries etc etc. I think they have a train? And maybe a plane? And some shiny glittery tatt which could be pawned. Or Fleabayed.

And, when the top echelons of society have been trimmed to the bone, then, and only then, can we look to the poor and the vulnerable and ask them to cough up a few quid a year for the common good.

ArthriticOldThing

Brilliant GQ. I agree with every word:T:T:T

pineapple

GQ I hope you are not suggesting cutting MP's subsidised bars and restaurants! Doesn't it make you feel all warm and tingly knowing you are helping out these poor souls?
http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/14/taxpayers-pay-over-7m-to-subsidise-parliaments-bars-and-restaurants-3922866/

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

GQ I hope you are not suggesting cutting MP's subsidised bars and restaurants! Doesn't it make you feel all warm and tingly knowing you are helping out these poor souls?
http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/14/taxpayers-pay-over-7m-to-subsidise-parliaments-bars-and-restaurants-3922866/

:mad: Talk about snouts in the trough!

As a low paid local government worker, all I get is the use of a hot water dispenser (BYO teabags/ milk/sugar etc). We haven't got a cafeteria, but there's one or two drinks vending machines in the civic building, dispensing murky hot water at £1 a pop. I've been told it bears some loose resemblence to tea and coffee........ very loose.:p

craigywv

great post gc

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Afternoon all.

I'm all for fiscal prudence; the real kind, not Ooor Gordon's kind. But let it be done with commonsense and common decency.

Well said! :T

ALIBOBSY

I think they need to start thinking way outside the box as the country cannot afford to keep running as it is.

Maybe something out there like you can have a one off lump sum and you sign that you will never claim any benefits for the rest of your life?

Some of that massive amount of land stuck in "land banks" across the country is confiscated by the government and each family can apply to have a piece at least as big as a lottie, or perhaps 1 acre each to grow your own food and you give back an amount of food each year to be redistributed to older people/disabled/on benefits as part of their "benefit" payments.

But as long as we have the current system based around the push for cash and interest payments and constant unsustainable growth that will never happen.

Ali x

bluebag

Greyqueen,

Have you been smokin' some good stuff from the lottie? Fantastical hallucinations you seem to be having !!

GreyQueen

bluebag wrote: »

Greyqueen,

Have you been smokin' some good stuff from the lottie? Fantastical hallucinations you seem to be having !!

Nah, I just run on 100% proof class hatred and copious amounts of tea.

Am chilling whilst waiting for a melange of reduced veggies to simmer down into a rich sauce from the tinned tomato mountain. Once that's eaten, I will wash the pan and boil up the first HG beetroot of 2013. Had to wait this long for them to be big enough to pick on.

I still treasure the opportunity I once seized to point out to a rabidly anti-German Little Englander type where the so-called House of Windsor came from..........let's just say whilst their head didn't explode, their consciousness was seriously befuddled.:rotfl:

I may decide to make a play for the throne on several grounds; a) I'm British and have the paperwork to prove it back until the 1600s b) I'm smarter than them c) I look fabulous in purple although I'll have to switch the ermine for fun-fur on animal welfare grounds.

bluebag

Ah, the lovely little Englanders, had one rabbiting on 'it was about time someone kicked the idle young up the jaxi ...blah, blah, lazy oiks...in my young day...blah'

All of a sudden his poor long suffering wifey bellows at him

' Harold .. for the love of god SHUT UP!!!'

Fell about laughing.