Sidewalk Solutions

The German Grand Prix last week end reveals what we all knew – you cannot devide  one by two and get a whole answer.  Each racing car manufacturer has decided to employ two drivers and expects to produce one winner. Sorry this can’t work and has led to a conflict of interest based on the very complicated arithmetic of 1 + 1 = 2 not 1.

We all know that there are only ever two or three racing car manufacturers who ever compete for the world championship, yet we believe that any one of maybe half a dozen racing drivers can win the F1 Championship. Sorry, but when it comes to the crunch the “team” will decide who the winner will be.

So let’s start again F1 and let’s have one team with one driver and one true champion. After all 1 + 1 = 2 not 1.

Now that’s free of any conflict – except the healthy conflict on the track – not the board room.

So the UK public pension deficit is over £1.3 trillion!!! That means that there is no money in the bank for these 6 million Government employees who want to retire – mostly early. Now if they were private sector employees then hard luck chum! But no they work for the Government therefore they are allowed to accrue debt as if it were wealth. Unlike the great unwashed in the private sector who pay for all of this debt – the public sector masses get to ratchet up the UK National Debt without caring about who pays!

Stop it – stop printing money you politicians, stop creating your client state of dependant voters – whether you have conned people into relying on the State for “benefits” or “gold-plated pensions” you are nothing less than thieves – the definition of which is – “ a thief who steals whatever is readily available without using violence” – how about not paying people when you have no money to pay them with? Why not try that?

Meantime – how about starting up a new Bank – a Pension Bank. Now we will introduce all new born babies to this new arrangement.

“Dear Tom or Cloe, unfortunately there is no money left to pay for a pension for you when you grow older, so don’t expect any freebies from your Government, as we have no money left. But we have come up with a great new idea. From today we have opened a bank account for you – the money in this account (which has a balance of nil today) will be held for you in a safe place, we haven’t found a place that’s safe yet, but we think Zimbabwe might be fine. Anyway, as you grow up and start to earn a living, you will have to save – now I know your parents and grandparents don’t know what save means, but trust us, it is a cool new thing to do. What it means is that from now on, until you retire,  we will make you pay 5% of whatever you earn into your new Pension Bank personal retirement account.  Now remember, you will never have a state pension as the money has run out, and all your savings will be tax-free, and also free of Inheritance Tax, as we decided to get rid of IHT because we figured out that as you had saved all your life for retirement then any money left over should not be taxed – I know you won’t believe us but honest we won’t take your money! Oh by the way – you can put any amount of extra cash you have into your personal pension account, also tax free. We only ask that you cannot touch it until you are 60 years old, then you can have a ball!

I hope you have a long and healthy life and are able to enjoy every penny of the savings you have made for your retirement. As far as your Government is concerned, we are still trying to pay of the debts of your parents and grandparents, things are getting better though – retirement age will soon be coming down to just 75 years of age. “

So the poor diddums at the BBC cannot take hard decisions that might hurt someone somewhere.  So here is what to do Mr Cameron, as the next major changes cannot legally be enforced until 2016 thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Lefties in the Labour Party, let’s prepare them for what will be coming down their line. The British Beeching Cuts of 2016 and beyond. Let’s give them 6 years to live the life of untouchables one last time.  The chop is coming – and we only have 6 years left!

Let’s start by announcing the proposed privatisation and break up of the  BBC – I can hear the Private Equity Community lick their chops and begin to count out their stacks of pounds notes to get their hands on the crown jewels of world media! Would you like a deposit to help pay off the deficit now Mr Cameron – get the auction under way then!

Sky executives are as we speak reaching for their stress pills – oh no they are not making the BBC more competitive are they?

Just think how much stress all those over paid BBC people will have to go through these next 6 years! How many parties could they squeeze in? How many hundreds of employees could they send to the 2014 World Tiddlywinks Championships? How many farewell parties need to be organised, better book every available restaurant  within 30 miles of Central London. What will all these London Taxi companies do from 2016?

Oh we better make sure we stop the Tories by getting Labour in before they do this to us! Now maybe we should chat with David Millibum and see what he has to say – that’s it we will support the Labour Party – we at the BBC really come up with original ideas – don’t we?

One wonders why the UK should bother with at least 5 years of austerity ahead?  When they are almost certainly going to vote left again when the time comes. The Brits once a rather conservative lot are now fraught with fear – fear that someone somewhere might fail, that a Teacher might be fired, or god forbid a nurse could be made redundant! Oh shock and horror, the truth must be hidden at all costs.  We don’t want anyone upset, just increase our taxes and print a bit more money aaaaah that’s better.

A once strong and proud nation are buckling when faced with the  new realities that shake the “happy clappy everyone is a winner generation” that now rules the UK.  Cameron knows full well that playing to the Brits softer side is easier and a winner because most importantly of all it is not nasty.  The fact that hoards of Brits have turned soft and cuddly – with no losers anymore, is testimony to their lack of understanding that when things get tough the tough get going. That to fail is something that you have to learn from – on the road to success.

Maybe true once upon a time, but no more – no this generation chooses to take things easy, even when things are not. Today too many Brits are afraid to dare to do the impossible, to take  the road less travelled, unless of course you have a police escort.

The untouchables are in charge – the caring sharing politically correct control freaks of the left who determine the language, it’s meaning and it’s context.  Sack a Teacher who has proved to be useless – don’t be silly – climb a ladder without helmet and a safety rope tied to your waste with a safety net underneath held by at least two grown men, you must be joking.

Just watch the police spoke person at the microphone placed neatly in front of the nice and modern media friendly Regional Police banner describing not how the convict who was doing time for violent conduct was released early only to murder someone the next day plus put his ex partner on the critical list, then shot a policeman.  No she says in her most caring voice how her thoughts are with the families and friends of those affected by this terrible event. And tells the public not to worry the very people who let this guy out are looking for him.  Sorry madam, get off your media training course and go and catch the criminal that your system let out and failed to contain to protect those who pay your wages.

Britain needs more than ever to be brave – yes to learn from mistakes made when over the past ten years you have spent your children’s inheritance and have left them only debts  - remember the penny savings bank that a previous generation taught you how to save?  Go ahead and have a good time the ready reckoner ticks on with ever more debt just waiting for the next socialist who promises you education, education, education or maybe a free health service or tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime – and there you will be – voting left yet again.

When the Berlin wall fell communism failed why did the lefties not go down with them? Instead they came back dressed up as smart westerners with caring voices, new expensive hair styles  and spread their revolution on us. Communism did not get defeated, it simply rose again covered in thick butter.

Britain needs to fight back – a conservative radio and TV station would be a good start – now watch the left legislate against that one! Instead we have to listen to overpaid lefty media workers who have no interest in anything but avoiding hard choices.  Things need to change before the left gets in again – or we may see the Brits “left forever”.