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Ministers and expenses “I’ve done nothing wrong” & “worked within the rules”

April 5, 2009

This blog is about to become lively after a period of neglect.

This global recession and impending environmental catastrophe is getting to me and I’ll have to let off steam with a mixture of rants, my own music, my own videos, my own montages of text+images, my humour (which I hang onto for dear life) and some contained rage.

My skills are with art and computers, not English language, so sometimes I will flounder. Content is what matters however, not packaging (I am not a package designer, though once a graphic designer, but I digress).

Not sure where this is going, but it doesn’t matter, because we are all doomed anyway.

Animals are just dumb – people are stupid.

I watched a TV programme a while ago in which an ant colony clubbed together to save itself from the flood. We are so selfish, we would sooner perish on the spot than think of the bigger picture.

Politicians are supposed to be very intelligent and that’s part of the reason why we elect them to run the country – I guess it’s a difficult job and that’s maybe why we have so many cock-ups when they try.

So why do the rest of us minions understand the difference between rules and morals?

Or am I being too obscure.?

Maybe they understand just fine and are yet another example of failing to see cause (I take too much) and effect (nothing left), or simply, dare I say, don’t care as long as “I’m alright”, which is afterall the point of politics it seems.

It doesn’t inpsire me with hope for our new future to know many of those in power display such failure to act according to morals and ethics and yet again act more according to economics (personal economics usually)!

Surely more than a handful of us realise we are largely in this recession, because so many have been on the take for so long and we will just head for another unless behaviour changes.

£39.99 barbecue
£2.50 toothbrush holder
£369.99 flatscreen TV
£119.99 personal video recorder
A sofa bed worth £511.20
Plant pots to the value £344.70
A fireplace and the fitting of it – £1,000

So if this is for minister duties, what they hell do they do with their wages if we are paying for such things as above?

As a minister, you are supposed to set an example I would think – otherwise please don’t preach to me. Talk is cheap as someone once said ( I wonder who ).