Laggers

I wonder why there have not been more references to the comments by the Great Prime Minister that people who lose their jobs can be gainfully employed lagging roofs.

This is getting just like a Chinese job creation scheme where it takes ten people to sweep a road which would be done by one hard working Englishman.

I wonder what other suggestions can be made to cure the unemployment problem.

In the meantime ponder this one. Over the last few years large numbers of people have been employed by the government in the public sector. Meanwhile over the next five years large numbers of the population will be hitting 60 for women and 65 for men, this being the immediate post war population bulge.

Now then if any of these people were employed in the public sector I hope that those who have been employed over the last five or so years will now be expected to do the jobs previously done by these new retirees, because that is why they were employed, as replacement workers.

So, they can expect to work under different working conditions, for example less pension rights, and they will also receive less pay increases because of the mess left by theose who are now retiring. There is going to be so much annoyance as these people ride off into the sunset with their gold plated pensions and our council taxes paying for them. Get 'em out, move 'em on.

Funny how Gordon met the returning Team GB athletes on his own, whilst the Queen can do it with all her loyal subjects around. I wonder why, maybe the nose-picking Aspidistra doesn't actually like other people.