Leaky tap? Budget? Let’s try giving the job to a monkey - Fiona Duff
Just sitting listening to people (who may or may not be our elected members of parliament) shouting at each other. It is the budget announcement, as if we haven’t been drip fed information as well as nonsense for the past few weeks.
Yes, we all know that the UK economy is in deep doodah – no doubt something to do with the squillions spent trying to extricate our country from one of the best trading unions in the world. Where is the £350m a day that Farage and Johnson promised on the side of their Leave bus? Exactly. It was just a load of gibberish spouted by a couple of buffoons who should go an learn a proper trade like plumbing so they can actually be of use to us all for a change.
Mind you, can you imagine opening the door to find Boris in his overalls, clutching a spanner and announcing that he has arrived to sort out the leaking tap. I think I would probably take a chance and borrow a monkey from the zoo to do the job instead.
Anyway, back to the economy. A friend of mine who seems to have a lot of time on his hands to research all sorts of things told me that the government and all their departments are hideously over staffed and incredibly wasteful. A 2% cut across people who are working the machinery to keep the country going would wipe out our debt. However, no government really wants to do this. I think that most ministers are a bit frightened of the civil service, probably because most of the staff are nmore intelligent that the bunch that are currently braying away in the parliament chamber.
Most of us can balance a budget. We look at what is coming into our bank account and work out what we can spend as well keeping a few pennies down the back of a sofa for a rainy day. Or indeed to mend that leaky tap. Of course, there are many who like a champagne lifestyle on a beer income and bounce from credit card to credit card to fund their needs. In the end it does come crashing down around their ears, but that doesn’t seem to work when it comes to the various chancellors that we have had recently.
Ho hum, on that note I am off to take the recycling to a wheelie bin.