Flabbergasted

I have decided that the continuing appearance of a new found level of incompetence amongst the British (well, mainly it seems the public sector British) will attract the sobriquet 'flabbergasted' henceforth. And so it is I am, once again.

We have had a spate of incidents recently, where the emergency services have attended various incidents as sort of official spectators, leaving the victims very much to their own devices, in case safety rules were transgressed. But now we have a new twist. A couple have died after their car was buried under a mud slide. Our heroes in uniform (including the councils Highways department) of fluorescent yellow attended and decided it was a lot of mud, was completely blocking the road, so perhaps the road should be closed.

The genius of these people was not compromised by any thought that the road might have been being used at the time of the mud slide for the purpose for which it was designed; not by a car or, heaven help us, a dog walker. Nope, adhering to the incompetence directive essential to the consistent running of any state service, they checked for adverse outcomes as a result of the event in no way at all and went home for tea.

Not a problem though. Just a couple more deaths due to public sector incompetence. It's not something as outrageous as say, asking public service workers to actually pay for their pensions, like everyone else. It should not dent the image of the saintly people who work in the public sector (an image invented and promoted by, the public sector).

We have an inquiry if a train crashes and kills 50 people, but the NHS kills at least that many every day and we claim it is a health service the world envies (but strangely, no one has copied). I have an idea. Maybe we should require higher standards, you know, in general not just of public sector workers.

You Can't Say That

Jeremy Clarkson says that public sector strikers should be taken outside and shot and the humourless, the nanny state led morons and the dictators jump up and down in outrage. A woman representative of a teachers union says on QT, that he shouldn't be allowed to say it because in Columbia union people are taken out and shot. Her point being that she is a representative of those doing the shooting in Columbia. You mustn't oppose her view and you must keep quiet. Because she says so.

A Labour MP said that if Clarkson had a heart attack, he would be picked up by an ambulance crew and treated by paramedics he wants shot. Except Labour idiot, he doesn't. Not just because it was a joke, you twerp, but because he was complaining about strikers, not people who were working, which is what they would have to be doing to pick him up.

In fact I am heartily sick of public sector unions (not necessarily the people who pay for them) who keep claiming they represent low paid people, who work hard caring for the sick and elderly etc. So who is it that are killing our old people in NHS hospitals, who cannot educate our kids? No this strike was about challenging a non Socialist government whilst pretending it is about pensions. And then about pensions the public sector workers have not paid for and are way above equivalent private sector workers' pensions.

If Cameron wasn't showing himself as a weak left wing politician, these destructive forces would be less keen to take on the government. Public borrowing is still going up, but the Conservatives are trying to get it back under control and allow the productive sector to grow us out of the mess we are in. The unions want a high tax society where people like them get to control what your money is spent on (and that they have access to it too). Look at the salaries these union bosses award themselves, then ask who you want spending your money; you or them?

Greek Tragedy in Britain

Large sections of the public sector are on strike today, outraged that the pensions they don't pay for are at risk. Why they ask, shouldn't we expect a pension way above private sector workers? Why should we be expected to fund it ourselves? The public sector now pays its staff more than the private sector, requires much less of it (in far too many cases, at least) and allows far greater amounts of time off sick than would be tolerated elsewhere.

People laughed at Cameron, suggesting that we are all 'in this together', when referring to the need for belt tightening. He is privileged they wailed and wants to keep it that way. Just so the public sector. And the scale of the outrage at what they are being asked clearly shows how entrenched this sense of entitlement has become. The only actual outrageous aspect of the proposed changes to public sector pensions is of course, that the very people who are insisting on it, the MP's have excluded themselves from the pool.

In Greece so in Britain. The people are merely stating that they quite liked living beyond their means and how dare the government take it away? Brown of course foresaw this and was equally insistent that he should keep on borrowing to keep the good times coming. I still cannot get my head around how so many people fell, for so long for such an obvious con trick as that pulled by Blair and Brown. But with the level of 'me, me, me' stupidity on display on the streets today, self delusion obviously runs deep.

Naturally, quite apart from dimwitted teachers let loose to 'educate' our children and all the other challenged individuals hiding in public sector posts, there is the undeniable truth that there are just too many of them. Blair wanted to create a client state, one that was dependent on New Labour for its wellbeing. That is a large part of what the problem is. But joining some with a sense of grievance that the promises on employment are reneged on at leisure (even though they should never have been made), are the anarchists who will use this as a reason to unleash violence and the trade unionists who are seeking political capital. For them, their members are just 'useful idiots', a power bloc to support their communistic leanings. Rich communists of course.