Do As I say, Don't Do As I Do

Thus tweets the official Twitter account of the GMB Union:

"It's lunchtime on the third working day of 2019 and fat cat bosses have already been paid what typical workers will earn ALL YEAR.

We're calling for action on CEO pay to reduce the gap between the country’s highest and lowest earners."

Meanwhile, Tim Roache, the General Secretary of the GMB pockets a scorching £263,000 a year - nearly £100,000 more than the highest office in the land - that of the Prime Minister. All for just a spot of hypocritical posturing.

The so-called Fat Cat CEOs earn eye-watering amounts. This is very true. So bleeding what?

And yes, they do buy flash cars, which are built with billions spent on R&D and engineering, parts sourced from hundreds, if not thousands of ancilliary suppliers and manufacturers from all over the world, involving millions of people - from miners digging out iron ore, steel workers turning ore into useful metal, tanners making leather for seats, rubber tappers harvesting sap for tyres, petrochem scientists making paints and lubricants, and millions in the servicing industry.

They employ thousands of people. They pay millions in business rates. They pay employer's contribution of National Insurance, which is in essence a penalty for having the gumption to give someone a job and a wage. Just think about it. You have to pay the government to employ someone.

These Commies will be the end of us, I tell you.

Democracy 101

A leader takes people where they want to be, not where you think they ought to be.

One of these choices smell of a dictatorship.

If your electorate voted one way, based on a manifesto you stood on, and you as an MP stand opposed to it, you've got it all wrong. You're failing and defrauding the very people who gave you your job.

You ARE dispensable, you know that, or don't you?

Electoral Euthanasia

Well Jamelia

First you go and utterly ruin a beautiful Sam Brown song - I forgave you for that a long time ago. You do have a good voice, with or without auto-tune. Just don't do that again.

And then you come up with this brilliant idea of disenfranchising people, many of whom are responsible for the freedom for you to do whatever it is you do. The wisdom that comes with age and experience can never be overestimated.

You are correct when you say they will not be around to experience the consequences or fruits of their vote. This says more than you think: they're not making these choices for themselves. They're not scorching the earth holding two fingers up while they shift their mortal coil. They care, and they're making these choices for you, based on what they know and what you have yet to learn.

Besides, and I truly hope you understand, that should this Electoral Euthanasia ever come to pass, the next in line will be people with mental health problems, disabled people, those with a severely reduced life-expectancies, people deemed to be of the 'wrong' political or religious persuasion... or dare I say it - of the wrong colour or race. Pretty slippery slope that.

Can you think of any recent historical figure in the last 100 years whose main jam was just that?

I think you'd better stop, before you tear us all apart. 

You'd better stop before you go and break us all.