Posts Tagged ‘Yes Minister’
The Emergency Budget and Political Pantomime
June 25th, 2010 | 
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I am not being cynical but, I do fail to understand all the fuss and faux anger aimed at the Emergency Budget the other day in some sections of the media as well as by deposed politicians such as Harmon, it is a total joke if not a pantomime. The reality of course is for all these people is to maintain the fiction that they are important and their job “matters” in some way – hilarious !
According to them, George Osborne and David Cameron have “duped” their LidDem Coalition partners and have set the Country on the road to a “Tory doctrine inspired Hell” whereas the reality is rather more simple: We have a massive Budget Deficit which includes a “Structural Element” of some £70 billion annually, the choice is to start cutting early or, keep trying to hide under the Duvet in the vague hope that it “might go away”.
Posted in Economies | 
Tags: British Media, Political Parties, UK Economy, Within the UK, Yes Minister | 
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He’s Rumpty Tumpty, she is just Short and Dumpy
With the usual hilarity that surrounds most things to do with EU Summits, over dinner and behind closed doors, the new EU President and High Representative (Foreign Minister), were chosen and announced to a waiting world… Rompuy and Aston…Who, what, do either clean sinks better than Dettol ?
Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy is the EU President which is quite funny because after the last Belgium General Election, no one could form a Government for months and months but I suppose they must have done so in the end to have a PM. The High Representative is a British Quango person called Baroness Ashton but the point is, nobody has heard of either of them and thereby hangs a tale….
Posted in Economies |
Tags: British Interests, European Economy, General Election, Politicians, The European Union, Within the UK, Yes Minister |
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Yes Minister, David Miliband and the EU
Although this entry is also political, my main thrust is about life and having a sense of humour. I will start it with a few things that cause me great amusement and I feel that I might try and share. In the 80′s when Maggie was PM, she was apparently very found of a BBC TV series called “Yes Minister” which was a comedy centred around a Tory Minister “Jim Hacker” and his two closest Civil Servants. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Community, Politics |
Tags: EU, Miliband, Politicians, The European Union, Yes Minister |
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