I do realise that my injunction above does not make clear which group should be, so to speak, targeted, so let me make clear that I am referring to Public Sector officials earning in excess of £100k a year. I am provoked to this not unreasonable suggestion in the light of today's report from a HoC committee that some utterly useless woman who has ripped off the public purse to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds in the form of pay and perks whilst failing miserably to show even a tiny modicum of ability or efficiency and who, despite her obvious incompetence has recently been promoted to the £180k a year job as boss woman of Revenue & Customs! This total tit of a woman is called Lin Homer and if, in these austere times, you are unable to afford a rifle treat yourself to some cheap but very rotten veg and if you spot her stepping from her limousine outside the HQ of the Inland Revenue, chuck it at her. Here is a photo to assist you:
This ninny was actually in charge of our so-called UK Border Agency which has not been 'fit for purpose' since the day after it was invented! As far as I can tell from the HoC report, Ms. Homer's efforts, if she made any apart from carting home her huge salary each month, were worse than useless and when faced with an inquisition she lied - or to put it in parliamentary language, she misled the committee. I thought misleading a parliamentary committee was a crime so hopefully there will be charges brought against her and if found guilty perhaps she could spend some time with Vicky Pryce when they could contemplate les temps perdus - whilst the rest of us suckers taxpayers contemplate les 'dosh' perdus!
When you consider these self-interested graspers and grafters who snuffle their way to the best positions in front of the trough, people like 'Sir' David Nicholson, the former supervisor of the North Staffs hospital group whose only expertise appears to be in the running of a concentration camp, you almost begin to feel sorry for the politicians. Well, you do, but only up to the point when you remember that both the Minister for Health and the Prime Minister both came out in support of the wretched man. So who, we ask, supported the decision to promote this stumblebum, incompetent, lying woman to be the boss of the Inland Revenue? Don't hold your breath waiting for an answer!
Imagine for a moment Mr Duff you are in charge of the Border Agency and given the job of expelling allegedly illegal bods. However Parliament refuses to give you the tools to do the job and instead lumbers you with tiresome and expensive legal procedures that make the job impossible. Parliament also winges from time to time you have not chucked out said immigrants and puts up honourable and upright chaps like Keith Vaz to winge pompously. Vaz knows full well why no-one is chucked out and plays the game well - as does Ms Homer. This ritual is repeated every few years ad nauseam.
As an honest man Mr Duff you would no doubt blow the gaff on this farrago - and get the sack for your honesty. So as a career civil servant you keep buggering on with a system everyone knows is pointless and look forward to pension day. No wonder we are in the s&*t.
Posted by: rogerh | Monday, 25 March 2013 at 10:44
My way out of this mess would be to militarise the UKBA. Don't sack all those soldiers, move them sideways into the UKBA. Find a stroppy general and put him in charge. We could make an easy start by recording all those who enter AND all those who leave. Anyone arriving with illegal papers, or with no papers, is held at the arrival point and then shipped out with the carrier that bought them in. Anyone arriving from France via the channel is just shipped back to France using the EU law that says they must apply for asylum when they enter the EU, not when they cross the channel. We don't need any new laws (via the Plonker-in-chief), just apply the rules we already have.
Posted by: backofanenvelope | Monday, 25 March 2013 at 11:11
I take your point, Roger, but this wretched woman oversaw the deliberate hiding of some 40,000 names in order to avoid discovery of incompetence. Had I been in her job I would have boxed clever and secretly leaked some of the 'snafus' to the right member on the committee (ie, NOT 'Vazeline'!) and then explained why it was difficult to impose a strict regime without the necessary legal tools.
"Get fell in, you 'orrible lot!" Yes, BOE, that would be a good use for our out-of-work soldiers.
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 25 March 2013 at 11:54
I think rotten veg is wasted on her; it makes lovely useful garden compost. More fitting would be to pay some of the drunken unemployed Eastern European wastrels who infest my neighbourhood to go and piss on her.
Posted by: Whyaxye | Monday, 25 March 2013 at 19:15
Oh, alright then, 'W', if you insist!
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 25 March 2013 at 21:13