Thursday, June 28, 2007

Let the work of change begin

So ol' Golden's now in charge, and talking about change. The Telegraph.

After ten years of 'fiscal prudence' ensconced in No. 11, during which time ol' Golden has presided over: ...............

- An iniquitous raid on pension funds (including a huge chunk of mine);

- More than 100 increases in various taxes, both direct and indirect;

- The employment of millions of extra 'public servants' (who the rest of us have to pay for, including their gold-plated, index-linked pensions!);

- Council tax that has gone up by more than three times the level of inflation over the decade(with a corresponding reduction in services!);

- The pouring of extra billions into the NHS bottomless hole without any visible improvement;

- The waste of billions on what now appear to be pointless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq;

- 'Massaged' inflation figures against which pay deals have been set, so that millions now earn less in real terms than they did ten years ago;

........ I'm afraid that all I have left in my own pocket is ............... change.

What's the betting that the new incumbent of No. 11 finds some novel way of taking that off me too?

BBC - Brown to unveil further changes
BBC - Cabinet faces: Old and new - Hilary Benn for Environment. Let's see.

1 comment:

Emma said...

Now Dave, just because a brief, 10-year period, during which you've seen almost everything you hold dear erased, has, with the complicity of most media, been itself erased, may be seen as some reason to be a tad miffed.

Well... looking at your pithy list... it's hard to argue.

All I can say is that we at least still have the vote... for now. Trouble is, there's the small matter of who else is any different, much less better?

I'm just back from a bruising few days away (and the emails do not stop while I am), but have just seen that David Milliband is no longer Min of E. As how that impacts I have yet to assess, especially as I have not yet found out who is in his place!

At the Climate Conferecne I attended, the mood was dark that this ministry seemed to have been given very low attention.