And This Little Piggy Had (Almost) None

Posted on January 6, 2008
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Everyone hates spongers who just filch money from the state for doing nothing. They loll around all day, getting drunk and arguing about everything. They are feckless wastrels who may be unemployable in normal circumstances, but who need a few lessons about being parasites on the taxpayer and a drain on society.

So, Gordon Brown has now told MPs that they have to restrict their own pay rise to keep in line with inflation and those pay awards made to public sector workers, so it looks like the little piggies who push their snouts in the Westminster trough will have to give up on the idea of stuffing more readies into their back pockets.

Not that it makes much difference. After all, the notional basic pay of an MP may be around the sixty thousand squid mark, making it about four times what everyone else earns, but that is hardly the full story. When you add all the other benefits, you are talking about at least a quarter of a million biguns to sleep the day away in the rowdy chamber. To that, of course, you have to add all the extra salaries from other jobs, because running the country is just not important enough to be a full-time job for any MP.

Gordon Brown said:

“This is a year of very big choices for British society and for Britain as a whole.

“It is about equipping ourselves for the future. It is a year of big long-term decisions.

“I will be judged by whether I get these big choices right and so will the whole government be judged by that.

“These are choices about secure energy, building new houses for people, about building infrastructure, getting our education and health systems right and making our economy secure when faced by global financial turbulence.”

Oh, has the economy gone wrong all of a sudden for Gordon “Prudence” Brown?

If this is the year you will be judged on, Prime Minister, you may as well go now. It’s downhill all the way fom now on.

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