Gravy Train

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It is reported that 382 BBC executives are earning more than £100,000. Of these, nearly a third earn more than £160,000 and 58 receive more than the Prime Minister’s £194,000 salary.

I now understand why so many MPs have announced that they will not be standing at the next General Election.

They are all queuing up for jobs with the BBC!
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Ours Are ‘More Biodegradable’

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As I write, there are five red rubber bands discarded by our postman lying on the pavement outside our house. At some point, I will pick them up and add them to my growing collection of Royal Mail rubber bands. It is one of the small parts I play in recycling!

Why am I bothering to tell you about the rubber bands outside my house? It is because, under a Freedom of Information Act request by a Mr. Woods of Bristol, Royal Mail have admitted that they use 871 million rubber bands every year and that this total rises by around 50 million a year.

Amongst the tosh put out by their spokesman, Royal Mail state, ‘Unfortunately, given the quantity that we use, it is inevitable that some rubber bands will be dropped by mistake.’ Yeah, right!

Obviously trained by a PR company, the spokesman then added that Royal Mail’s rubber bands were ‘more biodegradable’ than ordinary brown ones. Interesting! How biodegradable is an ordinary brown one and how much more biodegradable are the Royal Mail red ones?

In any event, wouldn’t thousands of pounds, and much pointless litter, be saved if the lazy postmen just recycled the rubber bands they took out?
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I Got It Wrong!

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OK. Hands up. I got it wrong! Having heard that the government had invested £60 billion in the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank, I thought that ‘Bronco’ Brown and his associates were doing nothing to lessen the taxpayers' burden on the deal which is reckoned to be worth around £3,000 per person.

But, in fact, the government has done something about it for No. 10 now has a secret gift shop.

Yes, sirree, you can now buy a range of things from blank cards at forty pence to a model No. 10 door for £71. And if you’re looking for something else, you can now buy oven gloves, aprons, tea towels, mugs, coasters, fruit drops (is that why ‘Bronco' is always putting his tongue in his cheek when speaking?), mint thins, tea, candles, cufflinks, key rings, pens, book marks, address books, notebooks and even a teddy bear.

This information was dragged out of No 10 by a chap who goes under the name of ‘Dizzie’ who put an application in under the Freedom of Information Act.

Why this was necessary is a mystery as, clearly, the secret shop (no longer a secret now) is going to benefit the British economy. Isn’t it?
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Political Correctness Gone Mad!

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Over a two-year period a total of 29 prisoners did a runner from an open prison in Suffolk, and the local newspaper recently asked for their names under the Freedom of Information Act.

Instead of getting all the details so that folk could look out for these abscondees, the Ministry of Justice replied they couldn’t do this on the grounds that they could not ‘disclose, to a third party, personal information about another person.’

Wow! Is that sane or not?