Our leaders are clearly all shitfaced
THE other day I caught one of the countless government COVID ads on the wireless.
It stated in proud tones that the Test and Trace app had prevented half a million infections.
How on earth they came to this number I have no idea but it struck me as one of the shittiest boasts in the long history of boasting.
Given that the Test and Trace app cost a staggering £ 36billion, that means that every COVID infection prevented cost £ 72,000!
And, note, it’s “infections” that were prevented. Not deaths, infections.
Given that for most people COVID is a relatively mild illness, most of those imaginary 500,000 people would have got a cough.
Seventy two grand to prevent something that could be put right with a £ 5 bottle of Benylin.
Welcome to the bizarre world of how government spends YOUR hardearned.
Test and Trace is far from being alone in the annals of government waste. In 2014 the Ministry of Defence inked a £ 5.5BILLION deal for the Ajax light tank.
Pissed
This brilliant piece of kit can’t fire its gun while moving and if driven at more than 20mph more or less kills everyone inside with chronic travel sickness.
FIVE AND A HALF BILLION wasted. The list goes on.
HS2…
The NHS’s £ 10billion computer upgrade that did not work and had to be scrapped…
The £ 5billion Gordon Brown lost selling Britain’s gold reserves when gold was at a rock- bottom price…
Now, we all know people who are shit with money but how come governments, of all colours, are so spectacularly shit with OUR cash? I have a theory…
They are all PISSED!
Not just pissed but spectacularly shitfaced.
We’ve all watched the reports of parties at Number 10.
Apparently, someone was sent to the shop to fill a suitcase with booze to fuel one of Boris’s recent beanos.
If you walked into a normal workplace with a carry- on full of liquor, your next stop would be the job centre.
Not at the heart of government, where we are told the best and the brightest pull the levers of power.
It does not matter if you have a triple First from Oxford, if you are bladdered, good decision making goes out of the window.
And it is clear that Number 10, the very heart of our government, is utterly piss- sodden.
If the humblest street sweeper turned up for work half- cut, he would be handed his cards.
How in the name of all that is holy are the people trusted with handling staggering amounts of our money and daily making lifeordeath decisions allowed to be ratarsed on the job?