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Government Fail…

picture-1Rather than close the stable door well and truly after the horse has volted. The consvertive party website now has a list of the expenses of the shadow cabinet see http://bit.ly/15Vttp.

More interesting than the claims themselves and some are interesting, is the fact they are using Google Docs. Strange you might think but Eric Schmidt of the very same company is an advisor for the conservative party. http://bit.ly/17q273

Sadly Labour’s website isn’t so transparent, in fact there is little to no mention of anything remotely like expense claims on the homepage. So I will let the BBC do the work for me http://bit.ly/HnWDG

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Twitter Updates for 2009-05-10

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Twitter Updates for 2009-05-03

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Shut Up and Get a Grip.

One of the biggest teachers’ unions in England and Wales is demanding a pay rise of 10% or at least £3,000, whichever is greater. BBC

I have the greatest respect for teachers, but I am sorry this is just a step too far. As a profession they should be thanking there lucky stars they have still got a well paid professional job, many haven’t been so lucky.

It’s common knowledge the government is spending money left, right and center, to keep the economy going. Only time will tell if its actually going to work. To ask for more money when there simple isn’t enough to go round in the first place is short sited, arrogant, and plain stupid.

Many people are being asked to take pay cuts or work short time to keep there jobs because there simple isn’t demand, teachers don’t face this problem, they are in demand. Also why do the teachers need more money? Domestic goods cost less than last year, utilities haven’t gone up dramatically (unless you bought wrong) so where does the money go.

I have a small suggestion stop spending and get to work, like the rest of the country.

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“Lets Double Tuition Fees”.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NohigherFees/

Many universities in England and Wales want a sharp increase in tuition fees, a survey by BBC News has concluded.

England’s Higher Education Minister David Lammy said there was an “important debate to be had”.
BBC News

New Labor – “Education, Education, Education”
Tony Blair said it, and Gordon Brown has re-iterated it. Yet both Brown and Blair have very little to show for it except a big hole in the budget, no one can actually say education has improved significantly, yes in places it has but the overall picture is very much the same as it was 11 years ago.

The net result is a heavily neglected Higher Education System, the solution was to get the student to contribute to the pot in addition to the government. As we already know money is being spent left right and center to get us out a recession we are already well entrenched in and it looks to be many years before we are out of it.

The one sure fire way to make sure we can stay strong through any recession is to make sure we have well educated and trained people, yet the government policy seems to be actively discourage students from pursuing higher education by burdening them with more and more debt.

Stop the government making another mistake sign the petition here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NohigherFees/

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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-15

  • I hate it when I am reading Onion Headlines, and forget its not real news… case in point: http://bit.ly/ZiFER #
  • Sage Accounts is the worst piece of software ever made, all I want to do is import a CSV file. Work god damn it! #
  • More and more I am reminded why Windows is rubbish, I have been waiting 45mins for .net Framework to install, it can’t be that hard can it? #
  • There isn’t much point in having an alarm clock, when the fire alarm keeps doing the same job. #
  • QOTD: I am Maximus Decimus Meridius Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance. #
  • Mmm, muffins http://twitpic.com/23c59 #