[Mgs] [MG-MGB] Bureaucracy - was Convertibles make you deaf

[Paul Hunt]

I fully realise it.  Gordon Brown spent his whole chancellorship raising the 
total tax take from 32% of GDP to 45% and gave the money to local councils 
to spend on non-jobs (like an 'awareness' officer, as if we have a choice 
who we pay our council taxes to).  Some years ago we were in Italy and an 
Italian told us that the Germans invent the EU laws, the British obey them, 
the French ignore them and the Italians have never even heard of them.  But 
it's worse than that, Britain leads the world in 'gold-plating', and I'm not 
talking about jewellery.  This is taking laws from the EU or central 
government and seeing how much more restrictive and punitive they can make 
them.  In the last month there has been a hoo-ha about two police officers 
who were friends and arranged their shifts so that they could look after 
each others children when the other was working.  Even though no money 
changed hands their local council decreed that it was a commercial 
arrangement and both would have to be assessed by the Criminal Records 
Bureau and local council for their suitability for childcare.  Fortunately 
in that case the central government department concerned for the national 
policy told them not to be so stupid.  The same applies to parents with 
children in social or sports groups who might ferry children from other 
families to and from venues, but in that case the requirement for the 
assessment stands.

PaulH.

----- Original Message ----- 

> What you have to realise that that those people slapping tickets on people 
> employs not only the slapper-oners but their supervisors, clerics, 
> paymasters, the people who "train" them and Uncle Tom Cobbley and all.