You can apply the generalised term 'red tape' to anything you like. Most people apply it to some thing they don't like. At the moment businesses are using it as an excuse to destroy the hard earned rights of workers. Apparently people are scared to employ people because of the 'red tape.' They can't grow their businesses. I say they speak b******t. It wasn't so hard for businesses to grow and expand in the early part of the last decade when times were buoyant. Businesses weren't scared to employ then. Yet the employment laws were no different. What are these businesses going to do?Because they are so frightened to employ are they going to let the business go into liquidation. Either they need extra staff or they don't. Surely if the business is doing so well that they need to expand the workforce then the staff must be doing something right.If they have difficulty employing good staff then they should look at their recruitment procedure and training methods. Instead they use 'fear of employing' as a cover to drive down wages, reduce workers rights and attempt to scare the workforce into supplication because they realise that they have a compliant government that may only be there for another 3 years.
The Donkey Sanctuary
I often hear comments about The Donkey Sanctuary and how the number of donations they receive is somehow a signifier for the collapse of civilisation. It is often used in conjunction with disparaging comments about how people would rather give money to donkeys than to a children's charity as if that is the reason for the plight of children in this country. A country that is one of the richest in the world. Where multi million pound bonuses are paid to bankers. Where 20yr old's earn millions for kicking a ball around. A country that can afford to spend 11bn on a sports competition. Yet apparently the plight of children in this country is down to a little old lady in Brighton because she gives a fiver a month to The Donkey Sanctuary. The people that complain rarely have any knowledge of the work the sanctuary does across the world and how it helps thousands of people to care for their donkeys which in turn allows them to earn a living, feed and support their families.Yet these people would happily shell out ten grand on a car or go on an expensive holiday 2 or 3 times a year when if they were so concerned about children they could buy a cheaper car or forego one of the holidays and donate the money to a charity of their choice. But these people rarely have that level of self awareness. A lot of them are pretty stupid.
Cameron's Arrogant Braying.
The Prime Minister let his mask slip again during PMQ,s when he called Ed Balls 'a muttering idiot'. The two dislike each other intensely. The hatred, and I don't think that is too strong a word, began when they both studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the same time at Oxford. Unfortunately for Cameron, Ed Balls came out with the better degree, and has been baiting him relentlessly since they both came into Politics. Balls knows he can wind Cameron up and never loses an opportunity to do just that. Cameron falls for it every time and reinforces the view that he is just another arrogant braying posh Tory boy who wishes he could horsewhip Balls down the Strand, Oh for 1800's, you can see him thinking.Whilst Ball sits back with a smug grin on his face. Job done.
Votes For Prisoners
Cameron says that the thought of Prisoners being allowed to vote disgusts him. This gets the Tories on the backbenches whooping and a'hollering as he tries to act tough. But looking tough doesn't suit him. Likewise when he is involved in any type of exertion like running or playing tennis he looks like someone from middle management on a company picnic. It looks odd and out of place. If he is a Progressive Conservative, as he claims, then I would have thought he would have wanted to encourage the involvement of all parts of society in Politics. I can understand not given the vote to lifers or people on long sentences but surely as part of their rehabilitation, prisoners that are going to be released during the term of a newly elected parliament, should be encouraged to engage and have a say in the society they are about to re-enter. Prison is about justice not vengeance.
Will.i.am. U.R. a T.oo.L.
The grammatically challenged member of The Black Eyed Peas took part in the Torch relay in Taunton, why in Taunton? I have no idea. When he completed his leg he apparently twitted/twittered/tweetered/twittereeted 'thank you Coca Cola for this marvelous opportunity'. Now, I have to be honest, when I heard about this obviously heartfelt tweetereetitterd and how he had bared his soul to the world in thanking one of the 'Games Worldwide Partners' I started to well up. I know there are some who may think that a 'celeb' had used a symbolic Olympic tradition introduced by the Nazi's for the 1936 Berlin Olympics as nothing more than a marketing exercise. I say NO! How dare you, you philistines. This was a sacred ceremony undertaken by a deep thinking soulful grammatically challenge renaissance man who just wanted to tell the world that if they ever fancy a fizzy, sugary caramel based drink there's a company called Coca Cola that sell them.All quite innocent. He did not,I tell you, debased this sacred Nazi inspired ceremony for an extra buck.
Coca Cola. Chock full Of Irony.
When Coca Cola heard about the buying and selling of the Olympic Torches they apparently were dismayed that the 'taint of commerce' had been introduced into the ceremony.When Coca Cola heard about the buying and selling of the Olympic Torches they apparently were dismayed that the 'taint of commerce' had been introduced into the ceremony.When Coca Cola heard about the buying and selling of the Olympic Torches they apparently were dismayed that the 'taint of commerce' had been introduced into the ceremony.
I've written it three times.I've read it three times. But yet. Hold on, Coca cola said that....... no, there's something not right here...............what is it?.............nope can't see it.............when Coca Cola heard...............Oh, I give up. I feel like a lipsmackingthirstquenching Pepsi.
Why didn't they just auction the bloody things of anyway. They could have donated the money to cancer research. Or another charity. Perhaps a charity that cares for mistreated donkeys.
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