Prime Minister,
… is that they eventually end up biting you in the backside when you least expect them to. For example, take a look at this utterly pointless statement that was issued by the Department for Work and Pensions recently:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/23/benefit-sanctions-investigated-mps
“The DWP acknowledges that statistics on sanctions are collated centrally and that managers can be contacted if their performance is out of line with other jobcentres. But the DWP says this is a matter of good management, and no league tables are compiled or targets set.”
This is a self-contradictory statement. How can managers be reasonably and fairly “contacted” over lesser performance if their fellow managers’ figures are not tallied in a “higher vs lower” format? Such formatting is, by definition, a “league table.” League tables exist for a single purpose, which is to encourage competition, meaning that a goal of exceeding a competitor’s score (also known as a “target”) is generated by default. You like playing with the meaning of words; so do I. The difference between us is that you do it with the aim of distortion of meaning; I do it with the aim of clarification.
So, the DWP has managed to both lie through its teeth and expose its own dishonesty in the space of a single paragraph.
While you and Psychosmiffy might thrive on the application of blatant dishonesty, Prime Minister, the human part of our race doesn’t like being forced down the same route. This woman (https://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/11555135.Sanctions_branded__evil__after_mum_shoplifts_to_feed_family/) placed into the WRAG, now has a criminal record for theft, which makes her completely unemployable for at least the next two years. She has not acquired that record willingly, but was left with no choice but to run the risk of acquiring it in order to ensure that her child was fed adequately. So, well done, Psychosmiffy, your Department has just successfully contributed to the long-term unemployment of someone who was working with Job Centre Plus in an effort to improve her chances of becoming employed.
More dishonesty on your part now, Prime Minister. For the last three years you have been telling the British public that your government has been “successfully paying down Britain’s debts and the deficit.” So, how do you explain the fact that your cretin Chancellor has managed to borrow more money in four years than the previous government did in thirteen, or how we are treated to this headline (https://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/60963/10-rise-in-uk-deficit-blows-hole-in-tory-election-plans) this morning? You’re welcome to come out from cringing behind your desk; the London Met has successfully ensured that no-one has managed to steal Tarpaulin Square overnight, so there are no bogeymen waiting in a big hole to ambush you. If you ask Psychosmiffy nicely he might tell you how to go about building a ha-ha on it so you don’t have to look at all those common Plebs shuffling past your window while you’re all busy giggling in the Chamber at the idea of starving children. I’m sure you all enjoy a good ho-ho, with or without a ha-ha thrown in, but let’s have an answer to my question, shall we, because from where I’m sitting I can see only one interpretation of the headline, which is that the British public would be utter fools to trust the Conservatives with this nation’s economy beyond May 2015 and that, ideally, we should forcibly restrain Osborne from meddling any further with it immediately.
On the matter of the improving economy that you’ve been shouting at every available recording device that your tame broadcasters at the BBC can muster, we now learn that, in spite of all the thousands of new jobs that have – according to you – been created, the Treasury is going to fall short of its revenue target, because you’re more concerned with giving your bankster and corporate buddies tax cuts than you are in paying to keep the country afloat. Nevertheless, the improved economy of which you are so mistakenly proud has now landed that same Treasury with a bill for £1.7bn in extra contributions to our EU partners. (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11184044/EU-makes-Britain-pay-for-recovery.html ; https://uk.news.yahoo.com/eu-seeks-extra-1-7bn-stronger-uk-economy-004823602.html) Good game…. good game!
I bet you wish you’d claimed that food bank assistance from them now, don’t you? Then Psychosmiffy could have comfortably let Tesco sink into ruin without having to shore them up with slave labour, which would have put a dent in the economic figures, but would – equally – have saved you being harassed by www-dot-Juncker-Debt-Collection-Agency-dot-EU.
Never mind, you’ll be able to pay the increased contribution out of the revenues that will accrue from the new oil-fields that you conveniently forgot to notify the people of Scotland about (https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/23/scottish-independence-oil-field_n_6034738.html). Then your NIMBY colleague, Andrew Tyrie, who just LOVES the idea of fracking (as long as it’s not done on his own doorstep) can cite the new offshore oil discovery as a good reason not to let those filthy frog-leg guzzling socialists from across The Gutter tear up our national parks. Of course, the fact that you’re planning to sell off such places to private corporations, who will be completely unaccountable to NIMBY Tyrie or anyone else in government once you allow the TTIP to become established here, will render his pathetic objections kind of irrelevant, won’t they?
I have to assume that Celtique Energy will become another corporate monster from overseas that will contribute little or nothing to the Treasury’s dwindling store of pennies, seeing as Atos has already set the precedent for the French, but never mind – when Cretin George applies yet more austerity to the general public more of us can be encouraged to simply steal in order to survive, which will give all those State-sponsored thugs something to do when they’re no longer needed to provide what must be the most expensive case of “grass maintenance” in the entire history of green-keeping.
Some forty thousand innocent British people have died as a direct result of your government’s financial and sociopolitical incompetence, Prime Minister. Their blood will stain your hands for all eternity. Don’t forget that in May 2015, because we won’t have forgotten, and we intend to remind people whenever and wherever we see an opportunity to do so, with ruddy great examples of what the State-sponsored thugs have been pleased to label “structures” but which we still prefer to call placards, banners and painted tarpaulins.
Sincerely,
Darren Lynch
