NuLabor Is Now Hypocrisy Labour
They’re certainly being accused of that in The Times in a front page article, entitled Hypocrisy charge as Labour cuts its pensions.
It’s one of those titles where you can skip the rest.
Cleaning Ducts
Outside my house at the moment is a van from a company that says it cleans ducts.
By this it means those big air vents you get in places like kitchens and I guess they are cleaning the ducts in the pub a couple of doors away, that is being refurbished.
It reminds me of a story about Enfield Rolling Mills.
An apprentice called Dave Howard was asked to clean the ducts in the canteen. On putting his head inside, he found that they contained quite a number of rats. As he didn’t like the thought of mixing it in the ducts with little furry animals, he decided on another course of action. He just switched everything off and made sure a lot of hot air was driven through the ducts.
The strategy worked in that it blew the rats away, but the canteen wasn’t able to sell any food for several days because of the smell.
Why Should Anybody Get More Than Average Wage on Benefit?
I suspect that those who framed our benefits rules many years ago, probably didn’t expect that years later claimants would get such high benefits, so they left this simple rule out.
So now benefits have spiralled out of control as government after government has put sticking plaster over sticking plaster to try to mend a failed system.
The proposed rule is a sensible one, that would probably be supported by most people, but like most things, managing the change will be the most difficult part.
But it is an insult to a prudent family, living on or below the average wage to have neighbours, who don’t work and perhaps never have, getting a lot more in benefits.
It is not a new problem, as in the 1970s, when we first lived in Suffolk, there was a problem family in the village, whose expensive lifestyle was completely sustained by benefits and certain interesting piecework. Many complained about it, but nothing happened.
The Anonymous Widower 