Different Standards

What was it Gordon Brown said at the time of his 'inauguration'? Oh yes - "the shared British value of........fairness to all".

Fairness to all?

See this story, via The Taxpayers Alliance, about disposal of needles which states that if one is a heroin addict free needle replacement and disposal of used needles is available at no cost, but if one is a diabetic then there is a cost involved. So why the difference where one need is through choice and one not?

Also on the subject of the NHS Mark Wallace of The Taxpayers Alliance highlights yet another 'unfairness' caused by the criticism that there are more 'back-room' staff than 'front-line staff such as nurses and doctors. Do go read the list - be warned, it is very long. So it is 'fair' for the public to have to foot the bill for this whilst suffering delays at hospitals because there are no nurses or doctors to see them?

MPs 'a class apart'? It would seem so in that, again as Mark Wallace of The Taxpayers Alliance points out,, if you owe money to the Inland Revenue an interest charge is made. Yet the MP, Caroline Spelman who has to repay nearly £10,000 for an offence committed years ago, does not have to pay any interest on misused public funds.

In the words of an old song, Life Gets Tedious - 'something cockeyed somewhere'!