Stupid is as stupid does....

[johnny9fingers]

So this morning I wake up to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12132341

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jan/07/mps-committee-bonfire-quangos-botched

And I realised that the people of this country get the government they deserve. This criticism of the Government comes from a Tory-led Commons public administration select committee. And just to go into details....

I quote from Paul Odtaa who comments on the Guardian story:

"One stupid decision was the scrapping of the small quango, Sitpro, Simplification International Trade. This organisation very quietly became the world leader in getting all countries in agreeing standards in processing the paperwork to allow international trade.

They were able to get say Russia, during the Cold War, and China, during the conflict over Hong Kong, to agree to sign treaties.

With the advent of terrorism the Sitpro expertise would help draw up procedures to recognise cargo from safe sources, eg a container loaded directly in a factory, and those cargoes that may need further scrutiny.

By absorbing the quango into the Board of Trade we would have already lost many of its staff to industry.

The decision would have seriously damaged the image of Britain within the world trade community.

The training Sitpro used to do will be lost. This will be made up by commercial organisations which will be very variable.

Whatever happens British industry will lose tens of millions of pounds as trade is slowed due to security considerations."

As an aside, I have read that Barnet Council, so beloved of the Tories, has spent £1.5M on saving £1.4M. Well, that's all right then.

Thank the gods that the British people en masse are a bunch of stupid imbeciles when it comes to voting for governments. Simple prejudices are definitely the way to exploit a sense of unease and worry, and simple solutions to complicated problems are always vote-winning, even if they don't work, are inefficient, and return us to a Dickensian society of abject poverty for the majority. Never mind, the stupid folk have only themselves to blame: the clever ones will no doubt find a way to exploit the idiots.

I was going to find me some snake-oil to sell to the British voters....but then I realised that Rupert had got there first.

Comments

Re: OI

[torpidai.livejournal.com]

Oh England, that it should come to this.

4) I was with, well that growth don't matter, cos the idea of growth to you means much higher food prices to me :@ as for the borrowing, hmmmm well you gotta remember this is a nation that's been bombarded with "debt consolidation" ads for some years..... and no-one will spend on advertising that don't work hu?

But if I were to call for slightly higher taxes, especially for the wealthy or those on huge bonuses, I'd be looked on either as an absurd anachronism or a dangerous Marxist radical.

uh hu, and with our present police state, I don't think your freedoms would be garaunteed if you said such things too loudly either hu?

1) Our National Debt is such that we need to do this sort of rubbish


I'll assume by our national debt, you mean that which the BoE was set up for in the first place, so that British people would invest in the countries new warships to keep trade routes open and steal Frances cargo ships? To my mind they can go to the wall for all I care, all investors have been told the value of their investment can drop as well as fall rapidly!

as for 3) Well if we can't blame immigrants and keep those who more relate to the southern states of america causeing problems, just what will they have to show for all that investment in the police and cameras for the last 10+years? could always take a look at Israels methods I guess, can't we start blameing mossad for all that ails us too?