STEP forward Mr Phil Woolas, our favourite Home Office minister.
And isn't it about time we knighted this man especially as he goes on a new crusade of slagging off the Office for National Statistics.
He claims it is playing politics by releasing data to the general public!
Heaven forbid should a statistics body release statistics - what were they thinking?
Oh, wait up, it seems the immigration minister is not happy they are releasing information about immigration figures specifically about the number of British residents born abroad. It is "naive" and "sinister", he says.
But let's get real here, isn't the real politics taking place by the minister himself by making an issue of this so publicly.
And in an era of "open Government", it should not matter if the public knows such information - we are legitimately allowed to have it. We don't live in a former Communist dictatorship, and we quite frankly find the minister arrogant and he has shown appalling judgement here himself.
This is bully-boy tactics of the first kind and I now welcome the Manchester student who recently and successfully threw a custard pie in Mr Woolas' face.
See http://tinyurl.com/afsexv for BBC story.
Relive the classic cream pie moment:
Wednesday, March 4
Thursday, February 26
Right Said Fred
A CONTRACT is a contract and as sickening as this sounds it is allowing Sir Fred Goodwin, former RBS chief, to walk away with a disgusting £650,000-a-year pension.
RBS has posted massive losses - the worst in history though this is still less than predicted.
But Sir Fred was bred under a system which rewarded failure as much as gain.
Now, it is all good and well to moan and point to him and use Sir Fred as the scapegoat for banking's failure.
But he is merely cashing in on what was promised.
It is sickening, it is wrong, but it is too late and Government ministers should quit moaning about it and make sure this NEVER happens again.
See Sir Fred in action:
RBS has posted massive losses - the worst in history though this is still less than predicted.
But Sir Fred was bred under a system which rewarded failure as much as gain.
Now, it is all good and well to moan and point to him and use Sir Fred as the scapegoat for banking's failure.
But he is merely cashing in on what was promised.
It is sickening, it is wrong, but it is too late and Government ministers should quit moaning about it and make sure this NEVER happens again.
See Sir Fred in action:
Friday, February 20
A Funny - Draper v Dale
Here at Better Politics we like to stay out of online spats such as the on-going tit-for-tat stuff involving Labour's Derek Draper and the Conservatives' Iain Dale.
But this video spoof of Downfall is sure good value.
But this video spoof of Downfall is sure good value.
Supermassive Black Holes
IT'S time that we as tax payers stop forking out millions and millions to the pension pots of local government schemes.
Better Politics knows of one local government scheme in England which has a growing deficit of £25 A SECOND - that equates to over £2m a day. Yes, the stock market has gone down but even the scheme's own financial expert does not think it can come back to parity - it is currently £2.1bn in debt. He says there's only a 35% chance of this happening in the next 20 years!
And who pays for this in trying to plug a dying pension system? Well, surprise surprise, it's us - the tax payer. We are the mugs - again.
One pension expert thinks that one day there will be nothing in the pot left to pay out pensions. This, though, will never happen while the Government guarantees these dying gold-plated systems based on final salaries.
No one in the private sector these days can retire on final salaries yet council officers can.
We pay around £35 a year from our council tax bills to go towards other people's pensions - it's not on and it needs changing now.
Better Politics knows of one local government scheme in England which has a growing deficit of £25 A SECOND - that equates to over £2m a day. Yes, the stock market has gone down but even the scheme's own financial expert does not think it can come back to parity - it is currently £2.1bn in debt. He says there's only a 35% chance of this happening in the next 20 years!
And who pays for this in trying to plug a dying pension system? Well, surprise surprise, it's us - the tax payer. We are the mugs - again.
One pension expert thinks that one day there will be nothing in the pot left to pay out pensions. This, though, will never happen while the Government guarantees these dying gold-plated systems based on final salaries.
No one in the private sector these days can retire on final salaries yet council officers can.
We pay around £35 a year from our council tax bills to go towards other people's pensions - it's not on and it needs changing now.
Sunday, February 8
Bankers v Politicians
Darling knows how he does it but the next in line for vitriol are the bankers (again!). This time, quite rightly, RBS.
Yes, it is disgusting that bankers, who are failing spectacularly, want to continue paying themselves big bonuses in such an economic climate.
But what on earth can Darling do? He's clearly angry that we've just bailed out RBS for £20bn abd £1bn will be paid out in bonuses. This is bloody annoying.
But we need to be serious when tackling this and start to bring back teeth into government before making empty threats.
RBS should be ashamed of themselves, of course, but let's see action before we go into rant mode on Sunday morning television.
My answer would be to threaten to withdraw our hard-earned tax pounds in any bailout.
Yes, it is disgusting that bankers, who are failing spectacularly, want to continue paying themselves big bonuses in such an economic climate.
But what on earth can Darling do? He's clearly angry that we've just bailed out RBS for £20bn abd £1bn will be paid out in bonuses. This is bloody annoying.
But we need to be serious when tackling this and start to bring back teeth into government before making empty threats.
RBS should be ashamed of themselves, of course, but let's see action before we go into rant mode on Sunday morning television.
My answer would be to threaten to withdraw our hard-earned tax pounds in any bailout.
Wednesday, January 14
£172k Bill for Police Bridge Crossing
POLICE are paying a massive £172k each year to go over the Humber Bridge each day.
Humberside Police have spent £863,928 over the past five years on the bridge toll – known as "home to work passes" – for staff working on one side of the bridge and living on the other.
In 2007/8, £208k was spent, following revelations made by the Hull Daily Mail.
Ian Watson, assistant chief officer for Humberside Police, defended the expenditure as "good value for money".
Humberside Police have spent £863,928 over the past five years on the bridge toll – known as "home to work passes" – for staff working on one side of the bridge and living on the other.
In 2007/8, £208k was spent, following revelations made by the Hull Daily Mail.
Ian Watson, assistant chief officer for Humberside Police, defended the expenditure as "good value for money".
Monday, December 8
Failed Banks Cash in On Christmas
SO, it comes to the campaign's attention that Lloyds TSB is forking out 35 pounds a head for staff this Christmas for parties!
We think this is an outrage given 5.5bn pounds of cash was pumped into the failing bank recently at the taxpayers' expense.
Shindigs include a booze up at the Preston Marriott Hotel where staff were treated to a five-course Christmad dinner with all the trimmings, booze and party games.
And you think that's bad - what about the RBS splashing out 30k on a Christmas do at Blenheim Palace.
In such times of hardship, and at our expense, this is plain wrong and we take a stand.
We think this is an outrage given 5.5bn pounds of cash was pumped into the failing bank recently at the taxpayers' expense.
Shindigs include a booze up at the Preston Marriott Hotel where staff were treated to a five-course Christmad dinner with all the trimmings, booze and party games.
And you think that's bad - what about the RBS splashing out 30k on a Christmas do at Blenheim Palace.
In such times of hardship, and at our expense, this is plain wrong and we take a stand.
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