Nice start by our{?} new Prime Manipulator – that would be Risky not Larry the cat - as it seems fracking is back on the naughty step. Ah well, if that’s wot a Swedish teenager demands, so be it. Shiver me timbers.
Regards the climate, I’ve woken at least three mornings this week to be greeted by weather wot’s been different to that of the previous day. Much like most weeks of my nearly seventy-six years here, so I guess proof positive of a changing climate, right?
Anyhoo, my head worked again for a while and I vaguely remembered that, way back during that pandemidoodad thingy, when money for nothing was all the rage, I mooted the idea that those that would rule over us could well be toying with the idea of confiscating all our money. For the greater good you understand. Not from them up there of course, just from us down here. But that’s only common sense...
Once they had all our money, we’d all get a government debit card with a monthly allotted amount according to the individuals monthly essential but basic, requirements. This amount would be worked out by computers running under Billy Bodge-Up Version Bd3245628803ZZZ.
If you reach your monthly allotted card limit early, sorry, card frozen. Under spend so you have funds remaining at month end? amount deducted from your next monthly allowance.
Oh how I laughed at the total, like, conspiratorial nuttery of that utterly nutty post as I did the clicky on Publish.
Now? Possibly not so nutty after all as we learn Rishi Wishy-Washy has spoken in the not too distant past positively of central bank digital currencies. This isn’t going to end well for us.
Quote; Joseph Addison.
“They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.”
" If you reach your monthly allotted card limit early, sorry, card frozen. Under spend so you have funds remaining at month end? amount deducted from your next monthly allowance"......
ReplyDeletethat is how the (Un)Civil Service worked in the 1970s. I remember at the end of March being told to go to Glasgow and spend £1000 on small metalworking tools that were in stock so that some other section of the Laboratory did not lose that money in the following year.
Does it still happen?
Dad,
ReplyDeleteWe just need to look at governmental departments, quangos an’ such and the panic to spend all their allotted annual budgets towards year end on just anything in case it’s reduced for the next year thus less to siphon off to businesses run by their bestest buddies.
Good post from Sir John Redwood today and the comments are all worth a ‘Hear, hear.’
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2022/10/28/cutting-public-spending-2/
Year, that’ll all come to pass, right?