PICKPOCKET PICKLES PERNICIOUS PLOTS #1
Anyone looking at all
the information produced by national and local newspapers and by the BBC and
the Audit Office can have missed the shift of Government Grant from the North
to the South, and in a Robin Hood reversal, from the Poor to the Rich. Eric in
his Southern looking for new ways to move money south, this series highlights
the ways he is doing this.Mansion has to deny his Northern origins to prove to
his southern cronies that he is now “One of them”. To do this he spends his
days
The most obvious and transparent plot was to
simplify the system, by ignoring need. No more was the length of roads that had
to be maintained, the number of old people who had to be cared for, the number
of children who had to be looked after, etc. etc., would have to be counted,
and more conveniently the principle of giving more money to those in greater
need could be ignored. Eric froze the grant at the point he thought suited him,
then cut everyone’s grant and reallocated it through the devious schemes I will
describe later. Note there is never any “New” money, in fact Eric as the
Minister for Local Government takes great pleasure being at the front of the
queue when cuts are being allocated by the Cabinet, “me sir, me sir” is his
mantra. He is in the position where he can cut as much as he likes and leave it
to someone else to work out the details, and more importantly take the blame.
Think about it, a very simple way to look at how
ignoring need works is to look at gritting. Up north, not only is it, by
definition, North, it also tends in many places to be higher above sea level,
so you can see that by giving everyone the same grant, those down south have
spare cash to spend on whatever is their whim.
Unfortunately for those in the North, who tend to be
in the areas of greater need this meant under the Pickles re-allocation their
grant was diverted south to where Eric now lives.
