Sunday 3 February 2013

3.2.13 News Update - Running the Numbers

The UK has once again proven itself to be fucked up, and completely stupid when deciding what is a priority.  Yes, in a week when many millions have been spent on juggling the clubs for whom overpaid footballers will appear on a pitch, we have some odd comparisons, as follows:

40,000 - the number of children that get child benefit from the UK government but don't actually live in the UK !!!

£405 - the fine that had to be paid by Laura Howells for accidentally dropping a sachet of salt in a car park.  £75 was the on-the-spot fine and £330 costs later in court.  Carmarthenshire Council is a collective cunt.



£200 - the fine given to a company whose worker had just collected a van from a garage, and hadn't had time to put a 'No Smoking' sign inside it.  The driver was a fucking non-smoker, and if he'd actually smoked, the fine would have been only £50.  Fucking ludicrous.  Haringey Council is twinned with the council in Carmarthenshire!

£3,000 - the cost of operations on varicose veins, operations which are being scrapped by NHS trusts to save money.  No let up, though, on fat people getting fatter and having balloons fitted, and gastric bands/sleeves.  If you have varicose veins and you're not fat, you'd be forgiven for thinking the NHS is rather biased.

£250,000 - the typical cost of a wind turbine, just like the one that fell down last week because it was too fucking windy!

£96 - the cost of a Paris-Saint Germain shirt with 'Beckham' written on the back of it.  Madness.

£400,000 - the compensation just awarded to Natasha Sivanandan for 'discrimination', after Hackney Council didn't give her a job 14 years ago, in its anti-racism department.  Fucking obscene!

Zero - the reasons for feeling any sympathy at all for Alex Ferguson, who seems to think he is picked on for being 'high profile' (rather than any view that he might just be too big for his boots, chew gum in an appalling fashion, moan all the time, expect referees to give him unearned respect and live his life being hard done by).

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