Completely out of touch with reality

This government is completely out of touch with reality, both Cameron and Osborne have fathers who have made their fortunes and who have made plenty of this money by investing in off shore tax havens.We have other members of the cabinet whose use of complex financial affairs to help protect their monies whilst the rest of us have to suffer in these so called austere times that they keep jokingly telling us we are all in. Cameron scrapped the Nimrod programme to save money when the programme was coming to fruition. If we couldn't afford the planes at least we could have sold them on and recouped some of the £3 billion cost as it was we got nothing back. Cameron  scrapped the carrier we had and sold off the Harriers at a knocked down price to the Americans after they had been refurbished and up grade at a cost to the British tax payer of over £600 million. These things go to show that they can't handle tax payers money, but know how to look after their own wealth. Now Cameron is saying that ministers have to find a further savings of £16 billion. Perhaps a good place to start to find this amount would be to stop the £10 billion the chancellor has promised to help bail out the Euro. Things like this do go to show how out of touch this cabinet of multi-millionaires really is out of touch with the real world. Never mind the pasty tax

Is this just arrogance

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman and her family  had got a High Court injunction preventing reporting of their teenage son's drug taking claiming that it would breach the teenagers human rights to privacyy. Mr Justice Tugendat has lifted  the injunction saying that Jonathan's story could act as a warning to others. But more importantly doesn't this just go to show how arrogant these people in the public eye respond when it is their son or daughter that have committed an offence. If this had been allowed could not any person committing a crime complain that it affected their human rights to privacy. and as such their names shouldn't be allowed in the public domain. This is someone who probably has had the best of everything yet cries when he is caught, and sadly his parents who want to live by two laws, one for the man in the street people and one for the people in power. No wonder people are getting disillusioned with the so called political elite.  

Why stand for public office?

People use to stand for public office be it as a local councillor or as the member of parliament because they wanted to do some thing for their community or the country. Now it would seem and especially for those who stand for parliament do it mainly out of self interest. If people want to stand for public office then that should be the only job that they have especially members of parliament. They are always complaining that they do not have enough time, yet they can find time to write newspaper articles or carry on their work as QC. If people stand for parliament this must be their full time job, if they want to carry on working in the city or at another profession then don't stand for parliament. Many people say that we need business people and entrepreneurs. Why would entrepreneurs want to stand, their sole object is to make money. Now there is nothing wrong with that but do these people stand because their sole object is firstly to improve their business contacts, or to add to their circle of acquaintances, before their commitment to the people. There is now a growing concern in certain areas of public life where the public want to know what these people earn. If these people who stood for public office were informed that they would have to give up all other outside connections, how many would bother to stand. We have government ministers that are trying to hide what their wealth is. Most people don't want to know this but they may well want to know what they earn in public life. Boris Johnson earns about £150,000 + as mayor of London but earns over £250,000 a year writing for a national paper. He may well declare what he earns and pays in tax. But all people who stand for public office should do so only when they decide that this is their sole job and can concentrate on that for the good of the peole that they say they want to represent. But in today's greedy world do the public believe that is why these people stand or is it as I believe for their own self monetary advancement.    

Teachers saint or sinners

This week we have the teachers unions meeting, but have the general public any respect for them today. They are in many cases overpaid, they have more holidays than any other worker or profession. Six week periods then at least a  minimum one week off. Once they were held in high esteem but today in many cases they are a collection of an uncouth rabble. A few months ago a report stated that there were between 10-15,000  teachers that were not up to the job. If this report was true and accurate how did these teachers make it through university and teacher training college? But the really sad part and perhaps criminal, is that a growing number of teachers are being paid  to resign and waive the right to challenge their departure at an employment tribunal after a reference agreed with their head teacher. Again isn't this a criminal act with head teachers virtually lying? Then we have the compensation to teachers for accidents ranging from £3,500 to in one case £158,000 paid to a teacher who slipped on a muddy floor. These sums make the pay out to military personnel who have lost limbs in combat a complete mockery. Compensation of £12.6 million has been paid out to members of the NASUWT last year, a rise of 19.7% on the total value of settlements in 2010. Of this £10.8 million was paid out to 807 teachers in so called compensation agreements under which a teacher facing dismissal agrees to resign usually with an agreed reference from the head teacher and compensation. This amounts to an average of almost £13,500. Some teachers have been paid because a whiteboard fell on her head she received £11,000 in any other profession or job the person would have rubbed their head and got on with it. A boiling kettle balanced on top of a microwave on top of a filing cabinet was knocked over and the teacher in the staff room sitting  on a chair was awarded £7,000 How long had this set up been going on? and didn't any of these so called educated teachers know that it was unsafe and possible dangerous, but no because basically teachers are thick.They are cosseted in their own little world and don't know what its like in the big wide world that the rest of us live and work in.

Cameron a mistake as leader and Prime Minister

Every time Cameron opens his mouth he puts both feet into it. He talks about new snooping laws yet when the Labour government suggested something like this in 2007 the Tories were completely against it. The usual rhetoric about human rights and everything else. Now he's all for it. This is certainly a prime minister and government and a cabinet that is completely out of touch with the public on nearly every thing  that concerns them. The fuel crisis that they caused because of the fact that  Cameron doesn't know about the average person in the street and why? Because he's never had a proper job. They talk about the NHS being  safe in their hands yet he is ignoring the vast majority of doctors who disagree. Some people say that the NHS  is worth  £100 million if  the private sector gets its hands on it and they will only want the profitable side leaving the state to pick up the non profitable side.Then there is Frances Maude who doesn't know the difference between a petrol can and a Jerry Can, and his assumption that everybody who owns a car has a garage.Then we have Norman Tebbit who has hit the nail on the head when he wrote saying that Cameron is leading a government by chums, he left one letter out the letter P, perhaps he meant to say CHUMPS, which would be nearer the truth..