A Brave New World
Some wishes for the Gubmint for the New Year:
Cut out the deadwood. Sack all those “advisors” whose advice has been shite to date anyway. Scrap all those committees, qangos and other departments that do fuck all other than keeping your relations’ bums on seats. Forget all those enquiries and investigations – they do fuck all except cost a fortune.
Gubmint should only fund essential services. If people want sports fields, or museums or whatever then let those people pay. If they want them badly enough then they should cough up for them and not the rest of us. Your job is to look after national and international affairs only. Leave local affairs to the locals.
And while I’m at it, stop paying yourselves silly money as “salaries and expenses”. Your salaries should be tied to the national average wage with no bonuses or perks. Equally your pensions should start at pensionable age and be equal to the normal state pension. Live like the rest of us and see how you like it.
Scrap 95%of the current laws. The vast majority are just sticking plaster on older laws anyway. Scrap any law that isn’t there solely for the protection of the individual. If a law isn’t working scrap it and write a new one instead of just patching up the old one.
Where do I start with the health service? As above, sack all management, junior management, senior management, middle management, advisory management, technical management, public relations management and in fact everyone who isn’t qualified as a doctor or nurse.  Add all accountants to that list too.
And stop this lark of protecting ourselves from ourselves. If we want to live unhealthy lifestyles then that’s our business, not yours. If I want a nanny I’ll go and hire one for myself. So fuck off entirely in that area.
If you follow half the above, you’ll have saved a few billion already [and the place will be a lot more efficient as a bonus]. You won’t need half the income from taxes, so stop treating taxes as a bottomless pit. Any tax that isn’t solely for the running of the country and essential services is theft and should be treated as such.
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Right. having sorted out the gubmint, let’s turn to another area that needs radical change in the coming year
Youth.
Stop whinging. Twitter and Farcebook are not the real world. Stop complaining about everything you read then either don’t read it or else grow a pair of balls and debate your corner. The real world is a rough place and if you don’t learn the hard way to defend yourselves, then frankly you’re fucked. There is no relying on a “hashtag” when you run into problems there.
And will those of you in the LGBTRIGSGK community [or whatever it is nowadays] please make your minds up and then shut the fuck up. You are a tiny minority and we are tired of hearing about discriminations and rights. If you’re confused, just think what you are doing to others, in particular people younger than yourselves.
Follow the above and we’ll all have a Happy New Year.
Except maybe the gubmint and youth?
Heh!
“Where do I start with the health service? As above, sack all management…. and in fact everyone who isnât qualified as a doctor or nurse.  Add all accountants to that list too.” All well and good until C-diff breaks out in the wards that no nurse will lower herself from her PROFESSIONAL status perch to clean and when the Pharmacy runs out of drugs; the toilets out of soap, the OP rooms out of knock out gas and sterile gowns, the surgeons strike because there are no digestive biscuits or tea bags. Management has it’s role in all services….if only the governments would let them manage. Or would you really expect Ireland’s leading brain surgeon to spend one day a week simply organizing the Surgery Rota and buying in scalpels? ” Sorry Mrs O’Loonasee, I would remove your tumour today but I have to go to Cash & Carry cos they have an offer on Sterile Scrub”.
Obviously there have to be some clerical staff but they should fit into an office or two and not several ginormous office blocks.
Oh fuck, there has to be some common sense here. Yes, please get rid of all the timewasting, money-grabbing loons “in charge” and make sure the real people with real jobs get a sensible pay packet instead. It’s always true that in any democracity the most avaricious and self-motivated seem to worm their way to the top. Which of course, they perpetuate by giving themselves ever-expanding remuneration. Yes, I fully support the idea that we should concentrate our thoughts on those who actually DO something worthwhile, but that could be open to debate.  Start somewhere, and sack all senior managers and accountants, their advisors plus any expensive external consultancies.
By the way, Grandad, have a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. Trust your Christmas went OK? Don’t remember much about it.
Many happy returns to you too. The day was lovely and quiet. Got the family business over with on Christmas Eve! It was just Herself and myself with a bottle each. The animals were around somewhere too, but I don’t know if they imbibed.
It’s 00:11 in the UK so I suppose I should wish you a Happy New ….same shit…different year.
*is off to take some tamazepam so he can sleep away the drunks pouring themselves home in an hour’s time to a cacophony of stilettos clacking, vomiting and “i neeeeeeeeeed a weeeeeeeee”. Hopefully the couples shagging in the shop doorways will bear in mind some of us haven’t had sex since the 80s and will keep their screams of ecstasy (or hypothermia…this is Norfolk) to a minimum as not to frighten the horses*
You don’t have to if you don’t want to. I wouldn’t be in the slightest offended.
Sorry if I kept you awake last night.
Happy New Year!
And a very Happy New Year to you too, JuliaM!
A bit late but a Happy New Year to you and yours, GD!
And what was that saying? Something along the lines of: Those who seek office should never be allowed to attain it. Something like that. Of course, those who are too smart to seek office are probably the ones who should be in office.