Budge ‘It’

Why talk of any real squandering is moved swiftly along

The Budget.

Didn’t so much budge ‘it’ as kick it firmly into the long grass and bury it.

‘It’ being……

Talk of the REAL wastage - and planned wastage, including:

• The reported 1.8 billion earmarked for Digital ID

• The billions chucked at Convid AND its £200 million ‘inquiry’

• The vast sums squandered on the parasitic Royal Family.

Not to mention……

• The cash we continue to throw at wars in other countries.

I could go on.

When these ‘leaders’ are not ON the fiddle they’re GETTING THEM OUT, calling them violins and playing em to you!

I don’t wanna hear about the shit you ‘inherited’.

Mate - I got allergies and chunky thighs.

Deal with it.

Rachel Reeves? Prefer Jim meself.

But seriously, Rach

WELCOME TO MY WORLD

We’re encouraged to think of the budget as mimicking our own household expenditure. To think of Ms Reeves as a modern day ‘Ma Boswell’ doing her best to cobble together the ever dwindling coppers.

Told ‘difficult decisions’ have to be made.

The truth is more ‘Ma Baker’.

I don’t know about you but I can’t remember the time I had to cut back on bread and milk because I’d frittered it away on tools to smash my neighbour’s house up.

Do you?

But no, instead, let’s skip that and create phoney standoffs about ‘work’ and ‘welfare’.

Goodies and baddies.

Those terrible POOR people who ‘choose’ to have more than two state supported children.

Versus

Those terrible RICH people who own two or more properties.

Both groups, scum…..allegedly.

Depending on which side of the fake fence - you sit. The fence that was once red and blue but now turquoisey and green (how’s THAT for confusing!)

I know people on benefits and also wealthy ones - and funnily enough, none are monsters.

Just two ends of a spectrum.

A huge continuum, on which most of us sit somewhere in the middle.

And most people agree on the basics - that they want safe communities, good health care and schools.

The devil, as always is in the detail.

Sadly, politicians don’t work from Maslow’s pyramid of needs but PYRAMID SCHEMES of GREED. Themselves and their associates placed firmly at the top.

Let’s just take a minute to remind ourselves that money is an INVENTION.

I always loved the quote

“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realise that you cannot eat money.”

attributed to the Cree tribe.

It could so easily be scrapped. Debts wiped, slates clean.

But oh no! Couldn’t POSSIBLY do that! Not when I’m two squares ahead of him and one behind her on the fakey ‘Monopoly’ board we all play.

Fucks sake!

All while bankers take us for wankers, dictating who rolls the dice and when.

So, if collectively, we’ve decided we’re playing this game - and it seems we have - let’s at least agree on some rules. That just like a household……

• We have discussions with other members of the ‘household’ about what we consider priorities.

• We ditch WANTS before NEEDS

• That scratching about down the back of the sofa for loose coins is LAST on the list, not FIRST.

Nothing is too precious to forfeit scrutiny.

No pet projects get off the hook.

Then?

You cut your cloth accordingly with whatever is left.

Let’s stop the bleating, the blaming and excuses and have a frank conversation.

Because for so long, the only budgeting I ever see happening is the usual one.

Being economical with the truth.

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