Good week, bad week

++++++++++++GOOD WEEK, BAD WEEK++++++++++++++

Good Week for us taxpayers’ last week, as Westminster MPs no longer will be able to claim for second mortgages, or flipping second homes for profit – some of them are steal squeaming at the prospect of living in the real world. The damning Sir Christopher Kelly report said it would phase out over four to five years MPs being able to employ family members. No longer will it be law for the political mafia to keep it in the family. At last, the British taxpayer has something to smile about. Good excuse for a firework display.

Bad week for our PM Gordon Brown last week, with yet more British troops losing their lives in Afghanistan , he’s come under fire for his government’s handling of the whole conflict, and he has had to use that line again that British troops are over there to help keep British streets safe from the threat of terrorism.

Hasn’t that line been used before?

Bad week if you’re solvent. Figures have revealed that insolvencies have hit a record high in England and Wales, rising by 28.2 per cent over the last year.

And a bad week for…..VALUE FOR MONEY and TAXPAYERS. No surprise there then.

A report by the Office for National Statistics has revealed that taxpayers are getting less value for money from public services, the costs of which have increased by 13.7 per cent above inflation between 1997 and 2007. With all that investment that Labour pumped in, it’s still not providing value for money. Maybe cutting government waste, and cutting some bureaucratic services in the public service, will do the trick?

And finally, if you’re in the middle of writing your Crimbo cards, they may just get to the desired location, after all. The TUC brokered an agreement between the CWU and Royal Mail to postpone future postal strikes until after the Christmas period.

Good ol’ fashioned British compromise works best when at its boldest, eh?

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