Comments | annajaneclare: What is this I don't even

annajaneclare

What is this I don't even

Nov 14, 2010 23:03

Sorry? WHAT?

WHAT?

It's definitely the 14th of November, right? We haven't undergone some bizarre timeslip and returned to April 1st?

wtf?, politics, big steaming heaps of it, lunatics, just call me dave

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slb44 November 14 2010, 23:08:05 UTC

What? You don't want a touchy feely government looking out for your best interests? ;-)

annajaneclare November 14 2010, 23:26:19 UTC

I wouldn't mind that - provided said government was actually on the same fucking planet as the rest of us. Holy shit. They must be on crack.

slb44 November 14 2010, 23:44:49 UTC

*g*

And it's not the good crack.

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dermfitz November 14 2010, 23:09:50 UTC

Oh, my Christ, the government have turned into my previous employer. Let everything go to crystallised shit around you but make sure you ask everyone HOW THEY'RE DOING. FFS.

annajaneclare November 14 2010, 23:27:36 UTC

You'd think the mess those kids made of Millbank would give them half a fucking clue, wouldn't you?

perlmonger November 15 2010, 10:07:02 UTC

Yep. Sounds like Motorola's "Individual Dignity Entitlement." Thankfully, I was never a permie there, but I observed the beneficent effects of that aspect of their Human Remains policy on those around me.

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annajaneclare November 14 2010, 23:25:05 UTC

I think I already have. £65 a week for thirty hours of work, because we're all in this together.

burkesworks November 14 2010, 23:25:13 UTC

Too depressing to even *think* about. Much more of this fascism (a word I don't toss around lightly) and I'd be tempted to sell up and get out before the camps and workhouses are built. I'll be happy when I see the heads of Cameron, Osborne and "Duncan" Smith stuck on poles on London Bridge.

Incidentally, wasn't it workfare guru and Labour peer Richard Layard who came up with this "happiness index" horseshit about twelve years ago at the behest of Frank Field?

annajaneclare November 14 2010, 23:31:22 UTC

Incidentally, wasn't it workfare guru and Labour peer Richard Layard who came up with this "happiness index" horseshit about twelve years ago at the behest of Frank Field?

It does sound familiar. I may be misremembering but I'm pretty sure I remember the Tories deriding it as a ridiculous, namby pamby whiny lefty waste of money. I mean, in the present economic climate it is a huge waste of fucking money - and the answers are going to pretty obvious from anyone pulling down less than 80k a fucking year. NO WE ARE NOT HAPPY WE HAVE NO FUCKING MONEY WE ARE ALL POOR AS SHIT AND THERE ARE NO FUCKING JOBS NEXT QUESTION.

hooloovoo_42 November 14 2010, 23:27:37 UTC

Hey, Dave, I earn slightly less than the national average wage and you just froze my pay for two years. This is on top of not getting a pay rise last year. You've cut the funding for any kind of help for kids who need it and in a time of lower wholesale gas prices, my fuel bills are going up, along with VAT, insurance premiums, petrol prices, bread and chocolate. So yeah, everything's fucking peachy.

How's things with you? Have you settled in to your two new homes that we pay for yet?