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Edit...."Extreme poverty increases as billionaires’ fortunes balloon by $2.7bn-a-day (£2bn) The richest 1% of Britons hold more wealth than 70 per cent of Britons The richest 1% have pocketed $26 trillion (£21 trillion) in new wealth since 2020, nearly twice as much as the other 99 per cent of the world’s population, an Oxfam report reveals today.""
[Post edited 20 Jan 2023 7:36]
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
The real problem are the people from Surrey etc who started supporting Manchester United in the 90s and early 2000s.
People who pick the team who they think are going to win, so that they can feel that they have won.
I swear I know people who vote Tory because they want to feel that they personally won the Election.
There's a lot to be said for that. I'm known in the pub as a remoaner 'cos I moan about Brexit being sh*t. There are many wind ups who say 'We won, you lost' to my face. They love that they voted for the winning* side. Some of them have learnt to be cautious as I have accidently spilt my pint on their clothes or trodden on their toes on many occasions.
* we all lost, and will continue to lose, year after year.
Don't believe a word I say. I'm only kidding. Or am I?
At least they had Gary on. He’s made a refreshing change in recent times.
But you’re right. The IEA are gaslighting leeches working only for the interests of bigger, fatter leeches. Why does the BBC platform them? Because unfortunately they’re sort of on the same side.
Certainly not on the same side as Gary and the vast majority of the population who have been getting screwed over for years.
Oh how I hate that phrase/strapline/term. It’s up there with ‘care in the community’, which really meant shut everything down to save money and s0d the consequences except tax breaks for the 1%.
I hated Blair’s ‘Cool Britannia’ nonsense too. Meaningless twaddle to go with a sharp suit and a buggy ride with the President.
But then at pleb level I loathed mission statements too. Life sucking cringing words.
Did you see the 250k each allocated for a number of women’s rugby changing rooms? No issue with the cause but 250 grand each?! I wonder if the builder is neighbours with a Tory MP?!
Oh how I hate that phrase/strapline/term. It’s up there with ‘care in the community’, which really meant shut everything down to save money and s0d the consequences except tax breaks for the 1%.
I hated Blair’s ‘Cool Britannia’ nonsense too. Meaningless twaddle to go with a sharp suit and a buggy ride with the President.
But then at pleb level I loathed mission statements too. Life sucking cringing words.
Roll on three points on Saturday
Blue skies thinking anyone?
What makes me annoyed is that political correctness/"wokeness" gets a hard time, but management/corporate drivel gets an easy ride.
When I was working as a lawyer in the civil service thirty odd years ago, at a time when the term "client" was the norm for those instructing us, my boss used the term "customers" in a flippant way. Head forward ten years or so, and "customer" became a common term in the civil service for those in another department, as part of the monetisation of inter-civil service dealings.
What makes me annoyed is that political correctness/"wokeness" gets a hard time, but management/corporate drivel gets an easy ride.
When I was working as a lawyer in the civil service thirty odd years ago, at a time when the term "client" was the norm for those instructing us, my boss used the term "customers" in a flippant way. Head forward ten years or so, and "customer" became a common term in the civil service for those in another department, as part of the monetisation of inter-civil service dealings.
[Post edited 20 Jan 2023 10:57]
The term ‘customers’ was in full vigour when I left in 2019 and not just in HMRC. I worked for a couple of cross government teams and attended all sorts of committees etc where rivers of bullsh1t bingo flowed. Oh how I loved it…not
I never gave less than 120% though, peeling the onion, looking for quick wins, low hanging fruit, while touching base and keeping everyone in the loop. I was well into best practices because I was results driven, helped by keeping those KPIs on my radar.
The term ‘customers’ was in full vigour when I left in 2019 and not just in HMRC. I worked for a couple of cross government teams and attended all sorts of committees etc where rivers of bullsh1t bingo flowed. Oh how I loved it…not
I never gave less than 120% though, peeling the onion, looking for quick wins, low hanging fruit, while touching base and keeping everyone in the loop. I was well into best practices because I was results driven, helped by keeping those KPIs on my radar.
Ahh happy days.
When george iain duncan smith became S of S at DWP, he decreed that the public the Department dealt with were to immediately referred to as claimants, not customers. The term customer - rightly or wrongly - had been embedded in the Dept for 20 years or more.
In a moment worthy of Yes Minister, the Perm Sec (having anticipated this move) calmly asked ids to a number of authorities to procure totalling somewhere between a quarter and half a billion quid.
'What's all this about?', asked ids.
'Reprinting stationery, forms, posters,reprogramming computers..., secretary of state', replied the poker-faced Perm Sec.
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