Sunday, 30 May 2010

Damn! Nazi fighter pilot look-a-like replaced with Scottish blob.

My latest blogpost: Damn! Nazi fighter pilot look-a-like replaced with Scottish blob.Tweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 11:32

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3 comments:

Ross said...

When I looked at Laws a couple of weeks ago I thought he looked a lot like the bloke who played Niles in Frasier, he was also gay so maybe there's a gay look there.

30 May 2010 at 17:27
formertory said...

I think I must write to Danny Alexander to congratulate him on his appointment.

A few years ago the LibDems came to town in this remote part of the country and held a Public Meeting to gather views about Pensions. The LD’s were represented by Alexander, D., their then Pensions spokesman and man who (according to his bio) has never had a proper job; by Jim Wallace, then newly retired; by the Westminster MP for this constituency, and a few other hangers-on and gophers – 8 people in all. Facing them in a large room in the Town Hall, an audience of three….

Alexander got up and spoke about the need to reform pensions and how the LD’s needed to gather the thoughts of constituents and other specimens of the Great Unwashed about fairness and reasonableness. Jim Wallace chipped in with sage comments about how Things Must Change.

During a discussion which actually went quite well given that only three people turned up, I suggested that MPs might be the very people to show the rest of the public sector the way by voluntarily giving up their pension scheme and adopting a defined contribution scheme more in touch with the sort of thing their constituents were familiar with; there was much nodding of heads and acknowledgement that if the LD’s ever found themselves able to do so, this sort of difficult choice was one of those from which They Would Not Flinch. Wholesale changes to public sector pensions would naturally follow to reduce the burgeoning future cost of the pensions liability.

I have a 10 pence piece here that says there’ll be no change. Anyone want to bet against me?

31 May 2010 at 09:46
Mark Wadsworth said...

R, in that case well spotted.

FT, not me.

31 May 2010 at 09:55

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