One driver, or two?

In reply to:

Why ministers must never upset their drivers

And a few other political revelations, I have rather let fly:

I'd say that Ministers, and those that consort with them, might still be better advised not to upset a rather larger, and more critical collection of folk: the electorate.

Looking at the latest revelations, that doesn't seem too likely.

It's no wonder these guys are so keen to avoid paying tax to the state; they have first hand knowledge of how such money is squandered... hourly.

I'd be keen to know what this latest new job creation scheme was going to save... or cost the taxpayer.

Though it does pass through one's mind as to the calibre of Dom Jolyesque train-traveling, mobile-spouting, laptop-leaving numpties we entrust the competent governance of this country to who would ignore the compromises to self and national security of blabbing in the back seat in front of relatively junior civil servants, no matter how well cleared.

And...

Sorry to single out but one of many, but having seen the much-vaunted HoC FOI blacked-out 'releases', I suggest they are about as much use as, and hence can simply be shredded and used as just so much kitty litter.

Mind you, whilst the WUVis get excited on the inability to detect 'flipping', which is indeed as serious (if 'nuffink wrong') as it gets, as one just flashed by I am getting to grips with just how clean these guys homes must be for all we have been taken to their cleaners for.

How 'clean' they are as public servants... is another matter.

Look Mum, no brains!

Politics Today

Another O/T, but I think it has been established that there are a diminishing number of places left on our £3.4B, multi-10's of thousand-strong national, news media cutting-edge broadcaster to comment on matters of daily significance for large chunks of the year...

But post Caroline Flint, with the latest Quick revelations, might we need to again reassess the oft trotted out phrases 'Lessons have been learned'?

Or perhaps encourage more vastly expensive awaydays for senior pols and other public servants who clearly don't, in this GOAT (Gov Of All Talents) herd we're all funding.

This time to get across, paraphrasing John Travolta's character in Broken Arrow, that they should 'please avoid showing the the world's press the Top Secret documents you have been reading when you get out of the car'.

I can only hope that this is, in fact, a clever con.

Otherwise, the label 'laughing stock' seems inadequate in the face of a life of tax-payer-funded ease as a reward thereafter.

SKY - Not so quick - and reading the comments, that might apply to some in the media, too.

Led by asses?

'I can't stand him': Clegg overheard attacking team

Well, yes, I can see how these days, with no prior precedent, a politician could easily fail to realise that what you say out loud in a public place may be less secure than might be wished.

Not.

We really are getting served the 'A' Teams as options come 2009/10, aren't we?

The secret bunker is here... look!

Gaffe... my a**e.

Government's secret fears over housing market exposed by minister gaffe

Too much to hope it was deliberate.

Or are we really being run by people this thick?

Buy the silly b...abe a folder.

Next time it could be a matter of national security.

Guardian - NEW - The truth about that see-through folder