Government to the rescue

Solving problems of it's own creation 

 

According to Tim Worstall, this is a quote from Richard Murphy, the UK's comedy economist:

There is also only one known solution, as it is clear that the private sector will not create the number of jobs required to engage younger people in the UK in work, and that is for the government to take on that job instead.

I didn't bother to go to Murphs website and find out if this was an actual quote, because my time is worth more to me than that, but it certainly sounds like something he'd say. Why? Because it's totally economically illiterate

 

Firstly, the private sector can't create jobs for young people because it can't afford to do so. Young people with no skills and experience are not worth the cost of the minimum wage and employers national insurance

 

Of course, if young people can't get jobs now, they will eventually become middle aged people with no skills and experience. The government has created an impossible situation where it's too expensive to employ people, so the government must pay benefits, which come from money taken from the private sector in taxes (Simplistic overview, but correct)

 

So according to Murphy, the government must step in and create jobs itself. To correct the problem that it created itself

 

So what jobs will the government create? They don't produce anything, they don't sell anything. The only jobs they can create for young people will be pen pushing public sector trainee management types, who will add no value to society what-so-ever, but will need to be paid for by taxes taken from the private sector and its employees

 

If the private sector is unable to expand and create more jobs and value, but the government has to take more money to pay the valueless jobs it creates, we're in an ever decreasing circle; smaller private sector, bigger government, until something gives

 

To Richard Murphy though, this is of course, a feature, not complete balmpottery 

Eclipse

Conversation between me and Google AI last night

Me: So when is the eclipse starting?

Google AI: It's reaching it's peak right now 

Me: Oh Cool 

*Half hour later*

Me: Nowt happened. WTF dude?

Google AI: Yeah, it's only a partial eclipse, so nowt will look different. Why? You didn't go and sit outside to watch it, did you?

Me: Yeah, ya cunt

Google AI: LOL!

See you, wouldn't wanna be EU

 I've written previously (Can't be bothered to hunt for the link right now) about being in the huge passport queue leaving Corfu airport, where the woman behind us said 'Thanks Brexit'. I got my jollies by asking her if this was her first time in Corfu airport (it was), and telling her that it's a small, busy airport, that can't handle the traffic at busy times. Nothing to do with Brexit

 

Anyhoo, we were just back at Corfu airport, and this time the entry queue after getting off the plane. They put you in a tiny room with the staggered ropes, and there's about three to four guys checking passports, so that takes a while too.

 

They've got one more roped off lane for EU citizens, that basically just lets you jump the queue, but your passport is still checked by the same guys as everyone else

 

While waiting I found myself wondering if there were many people in this queue like that women, who were blaming the queue on Brexit

 

I then wondered if such people were wishing we were still in the EU so we would all be in the queue with no people in it

 

Then I asked myself, would such people make the link and realise that if there were no Brexit, everyone in this queue would be in the same queue, but with a different sign on it, and it would take exactly just as long to get through? 

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again, there were many reason why I voted for Brexit, and the length of passport queues was not among them 

 

But the main reason for this post is just to tell you that we're back in Corfu and loving it 

Owned

So some councillor decided to go on Facebook and whack on about the virtues of clean energy and why we should be switching to it to combat climate change

I decided to respond with a simple 'don't be daft' style comment

 

I did not expect him to respond, and even less did I expect him to correct my spelling

 

 I made a spelling error. It seems my arguement is invalid

And so it begins

There was a bit of a discussion on my last post about all the new Reform councillors we now have, and the pushback they are going to get from the establishment

Most importantly, how they will need to stand firm and deal with the opposition, because if they start to cave, none of this is going to work

 

Then this popped up on my Twitter timeline this morning:

 

She attended a meeting. A Conservative MP (Just shows the rot isn't only the left wing parties) refused to start the meeting while she was there, because she is a Reform councillor

For the sake of the meeting objective itself, she left

 

This isn't going to work

 

As long as Reform councillors are willing to walk away to avoid disruption, there will always be disruption

 

She should have held her ground

If the MP refused to start the meeting, then it doesn't start 

She should then go public and explain to everyone why the meeting didn't take place (Not why she caved)

 

It's not even been two working days... 

A Clean Sweep

The results are still coming in, but Reform has managed to win everything in our town. One of the candidated got more votes than all the other buggers put together, and the one I voted for was within a hairs breadth of doing the same, which is unusual in an election 

 

I'm looking forward to Monday. All the Leftys that have been saying, 'Labour have only been in power for 18 months, give them a chance', will now be saying, 'Ha! The council tax bill hasn't gone down and no potholes have been fixed. I bet you're regretting voting Reform'

 

To which I'll respond, 'They haven't sold the NHS to Trump yet, either'

 

To be honest, I don't know how well a raft of new councillors will do in the short term. I just hope they can keep it together until this can be tranferred to a general election 

 

Hopefully we will see some mainly positive results though