Snouts in the Trough

Defending the proposed public-sector spending cuts, fresh-faced Danny Alexander tells us ‘we’re all in this together’. That’s a lie. Danny Alexander has a massive salary, huge expenses and you or I would have to save over £50,000 a year in our pension fund to get the same pension as Mr. Alexander.
If we’re all in this [...]

Wanting to appear caring, the government has promised to protect foreign aid from cuts. Well, here’s a rule of thumb which our leaders could think about. Repeated studies have shown that about 10% of all money handed out in benefits to British people is lost to fraud. Around 30% of all money given out by the [...]

Nationwide have just walked away from their £20m a year sponsorship of the hopeless England football team. This is excellent news. The F.A. bosses’ greed and incompetence has led to tens of millions of pounds being wasted on a succession of self-serving bosses, overpaid ‘couldn’t-give-a-toss’  managers and third-rate ‘can’t be bothered’ teams. Meanwhile F.A. bosses have been [...]

A message to all our brave troops in Afghanistan. As your leaders prepare for their three month summer holidays, none of them gives a toss about how many of you die or are injured while they’re enjoying their long break. All our greedy, thieving MPs care about is filling their own pockets with taxpayers’ money.
Our [...]

The FA has always behaved like a New Labour public-sector quango – wasting hundreds of millions, paying its top staff a fortune for nothing, hiring fools and idiots and always rewarding failure with multi-million pound pay-offs. Crapello will probably earn more from his pathetic failure than he would have had he actually achieved something.
In the [...]

While the nation seems fixated on the result of the football match between England and Germany, perhaps there is another result which is more deserving of our attention. In the last week, 8 British soldiers died in Afghanistan.
This is a pointless war. We are seen as the occupying army propping up a corrupt and incompetent shambles [...]

Our greedy, lying, self-serving, expenses-fiddling MPs have decided that to reduce the deficit we should all work longer before we get our pensions. Exempted from this, of course, are MPs and senior civil servants who will contine to be able to retire at 60 with full taxpayer-funded pensions plus generous tax-free cash pay-offs.
Our MPs and [...]

Rumours going round that Britain’s most senior diplomat in Afghanistan is going on extended leave after daring to suggest that the US/UK military offensive was failing and that we’d have to talk to the Taleban if we’re ever to get out of the Afghanistan impasse.
Most people in Britain have understood that we’re wasting our soldiers’ [...]

Congratulations to the England fan who went to the team’s dressing room and told them they were rubbish.
Instead of charging the fan with trespass, the England players should be charged with impersonating a football team and obtaining a free trip to South Africa by deception. The manager should be charged for defrauding football fans of [...]

Once again England’s overpaid, undertalented prima donnas can’t be bothered to even make an effort. Congratulations to the Algerian team for running England ragged.
Wouldn’t it be better (and save a lot of money) if England’s worthless, self-centered, preening third-raters just left the World Cup and came home?