Some might suggest there is just one working class, and that includes business owners, managers, staff and employees at every level, earning a wage and paying their various taxes. Then there is the other lot, which includes business owners, entrepreneurs and other financiers who hob-nob with politicians and civil servants to reach the ‘well-connected’ status and therefore qualify to join the rich and powerful class.
And whilst there appears to a be two-tier tax payer and tax avoider system in this country there also seems to be a complimentary two tier legal system which seeks to protects the saintly from the irritating serfs!
Example. No-one from the Post Office or Fujitsu board rooms has been held to account let alone prosecuted and this from an organisation and multi-national company which were quick to judge, prosecute and incarcerate their own staff and hard working individuals when they thought their own income and profits were thought to be in danger.
Example. PPE. How many profiteers and shoddy manufacturers/suppliers have been pursued for the supply of faulty, over-priced equipment, much of which didn’t meet required standards and was unfit for use.
Example. Ajax armoured vehicles. Eight years and billions spent on a vehicle unfit for purpose and has harmed more service personnel than it has saved!
And as for the NHS, how many senior executives have been made to answer for problems when those very same individuals seek to pursue the over-worked nurses and hospital staff for poor care and medical mistakes?
Adding insult to injury, The Rt Hon. the Baroness Harman KC reckons that the triple lock pension provision should be reviewed – downwards. And this from someone who was earning a six figure salary whilst in government and has a pension which is double, treble (at least) the standard state pension. And who paid for her salary, perks and pension in the first place - those very same pensioners who paid their taxes while she was in government?
Sadly, the list goes on.
And if the Messiah And Godly Anti-christ (MAGA) from across the pond invades Greenland what’s the betting on the archangel of evil sending his convoys from Murmansk to invade and colonise the Western Isles to provide the USSR with an Atlantic seaboard and protect their own northern approaches? Is Lewis and Harris safe?
Can you imagine the kerfuffle that would instigate amongst that mixed political collective at the foot of the Royal Mile. I can just imagine the emergency deployment of the Glen Sannox with the one o’clock gun from the Edinburgh Castle battlements being mounted on the ferry’s prow to go and see off any invaders.
CalMac to the rescue, eh?
We’re doomed. We’re all doomed.
Have a nice day.
