One day my neighbour's daughter put her head over the fence and announced: "When I grow up I want to be Prime Minister!"
Her parents, Labour supporters, smiled as I asked: "If you were Prime Minister, what would you do first?"
"I'd give food and houses to homeless beggars."
Her mother beamed and said: "Welcome to the Labour Party!" "Very good," I said. "But you don't have to wait till you're Prime Minister. If you come round and mow my lawn, pull up all the weeds and collect up all the leaves, I'll pay you £50 for your day's work. Then we can go over and see that lad who begs in the shopping centre and you can give him the £50 to buy some food and find a room of his own."
She nodded enthusiastically. Then she frowned for a second and asked: "Why doesn't the homeless lad come over and do your garden himself to get the £50?"
"Welcome to the Conservative Party."
"Welcome to the Conservative Party."
ReplyDeleteWhich "Conservative Party" would that be? Oh this one. Not exactly stirring is it. According to this that's, what, £1 billion over the life of a parliament: not chickenfeed but not exactly bringing us back from the abyss. BTW who would vote for it? Benefit claimants? No. Civil "servants"? No. Would it work (in the sense that lots of claimants would be encouraged to re-enter the work-force)? I doubt it. Even I - one of the taxpaying mugs underwriting all these benefits - wouldn't drag myself to a polling booth to vote for it. Certainly not while the Conservatives support this crapola which is costed at untold hundreds of billions.