Granny’s A-Z – G is for Greedy Gits

Things that make us go poop…

Granny and the ‘ladies’ darts team of The Dog and Trumpet alphabetically collate their collective contempt for the inhabitants of the twenty-first century.

G is for: Greedy bastards (yes, I changed it in the title for those of a delicate disposition)

Having no wish to stray to deeply into the faeces infested water that is politics, we will, for the purposes of this rant, make the sweeping generalisation that all those with political ambition see their political careers as a way to line their pockets and the pockets of their families/friends/bedmates/etc.

So, with apologies to the honest brokers out there beavering away for the common good …

We have questions:

How can you ‘forget’ to pay tax on squillions of pounds?

How can a married couple who work in the same building think it okay to claim mortgage allowances on two properties near their work?

How can a person whose whole avowed purpose in life is to bring down an institution happily claim an inflated salary for being a part of said institution?

How can you forget about your own property portfolio that is worth millions of pounds, while demanding that a colleague face the strongest possible sanctions for an unproven underpayment of about fifteen hundred quid?

We could go on. But I think you have our drift.

Add to this the perfectly legal ‘benefits’ of travel and office allowances, subsidised food and booze, annual above inflation pay rises, and it is little wonder that the population at large is extremely sceptical of our political masters and the circus that performs daily around them.

Particularly when the greedy, sweaty-palmed, self-serving little dickwads scream poverty and take on immensely lucrative ‘consultancies’. Or host radio shows for weirdly well financed niche broadcasters. Etcetera 

Just stop it.

If you can’t live on £91k, don’t stand for election to Parliament.

It’s nothing short of greed and absolutely symptomatic to try and stamp on the poor and weak and ill in order to camouflage your own shortcomings.