A Happy New Year to my reader! hehehe!

A Happy New Year?

I don't know about you, but I always wish people a Happy New Year, and hope that it will be better than the last one for all of us, but somehow, it never happens does it.
Life is so stressful and complicated now. (and this is progress?)

50 years ago, I can remember my parents keeping their bills and correspondance in a drawer. Today, I have a filing cabinet full of the stuff!
Just running the home has become a second full time job!

I had a childhood school friend visit me from New Zealand earlier this year.
He emigrated about 20 years ago, and was absolutely shocked at the way life has become in the UK.
The stupid laws we suffer, PC, cameras everywhere, house prices, taxation, community charges, law and order, immigration, the average wage, the cost of living etc, and said thank god he got out!
He was so sad to see the way that his country had become, and would never want to come back to live!

But he did make a very good point though!

He lives in New Zealand, and with a population of only 4 to 5 million, there is only so much tax you can raise, so there isn't the money to go round to spend on all of the crap you and I have to put up with!

If only our Government(s) spent the money they take from us on our happiness!

The uk would be Shangrila!

I envy him so much!

Happy New Year Wormies!

MPs Expenses!

Did you know that MPs only have to provide an expense receipt if it exceeds
£250 !

Now there's a licence to print money if ever I saw one!

The Worm..................

MPs salaries

So our MPs will be voting on an increase to their salaries of 10%, in a 3 year deal, in the New Year.

I wonder whether they will vote against it because it is well above the percentage that the've set for the people that really run the country? ie our Council workers, Police, Nurses, Firefighters etc.

Don't forget that they also get very generous expenses, which unlike you and I, covers their travel into work, meals, accomodation etc, so in real terms, they
will get a hell of a lot more than 10%.

But being the honest hard working representatives of the people that we voted for to make our lives better, they will vote against it and demand less I'm sure.

Yeah right!

They want us to give them more money for the privelege of pissing us all off!
They really do a fine job at that don't they!

What a bunch of two faced bastards they all are!

The Worm.....................

Justice?

I've just read that motorists using their mobiles whilst driving, could be jailed for up to two years!

So let me get this straight.

Because of our over crowded prisons, we are letting off buglars with a caution, letting out rapists, murderers, muggers, paedophiles, drug dealers, and fraudsters early, and will be spending billions on new prisons in the near future.
We are then going to fill them up again with people, who's only crime is to be stupid enough to use their phone in the car?

Stupid, Stupid, Bloody Stupid!

If our prisons were more Draconian like the old days, our sentencing wasn't so lenient, and our Police were as efficient in catching criminals as they are motorists, the premeditating criminals in this country would think twice before committing a crime, because it wouldn't be worth the risk would it!

We don't need to build more prisons, because the crime rate would drop dramaticaly!

What do you think?

The Worm.....................

Inflation

So when have you seen a bill, or product go up by a mere 2.5% this year?

Because that is what the Government laughably tell us what inflation is!

Answer: Never!

If real inflation went up by this figure, you and I would be a lot better off!

The Government seem to base their figures on the prices of economy labeled food in Tesco's!

Get real you dishonest bastards!

The Worm.....................

British wages

I have just read (with some disbelief) that the Government have told us, that immigrants are not affecting the wage and salaries in this country.

Do you believe this?

I, in the year 2000, temped for an agency as a forklift truck driver for £7.50. an hour for a while.

Never guess what the going rate is now!

You've guessed it! Still £7.50. an hour (if you're lucky!)

So if it isn't immigrants, willing to work for the minimum wage (whilst also claiming benefits for wives and children in their own countries) what is the cause for our wage standstill?

How the hell do we manage to survive I ask myself.

The answer: Credit!

The Governments' massaged figures never cease to amaze me, and they are amazed at why so many people are up to thier eyeballs in debt!

They must think we're all as thick as they are!

We can see it, so why can't they!

The Worm.......................

Strictly Come Dancing

Well. if you lot vote like you did in the X Factor,
it wouldn't suprise me if Bruce Forsythe won!

He'd get your sympathy vote for sure!

The Worm....................