Antique chairs hold many repairs and bumps, scratches, patina, patches and now my glued efforts. So I'll leave it for 24 hours and hopefully that will fix it but I'm not confident as the wood felt very light and dried out to me but hey ho we kept these and sold mine!
It's the Spring Statement apparently - mini budget more like. As predicted it's everyone else's fault not our esteemed Chancellor. The socialist experiment is collapsing and accelerating as we go. Someone said some time ago that "you can't Tax your way out of the financial hole you are in" and this is so and perhaps will prove to be such, When you are working from an ideological point of view and not an economic one you soon find your nose bloodied and blink wondering where that blow arrived from.
We pay the highest energy costs (electric) in the world. We've gone all in on some stooopid promise that the faster we get to Net Zero the better off we will be. At times like this I then like to remind myself of the following:
One million seconds is 11 Days.
One billion seconds is 31 Years.
One trillion seconds is 31 thousand, 710 years.
We bandy Billions and Trillions around without really thinking what these represent. If just we were to go to Net Zero the expected costs are around £3 to £4 trillion.
Socialism seems to promise great things but I do not know of one place where it has truly worked. To make it work you need to oppress the masses and that's started here now and I'm hoping the whole thing crashes around them and that we won't go too far in blaming the population for it, it will be of their own making.
They are correcting things and in doing so making it worse. If you only address the symptoms and not the root cause it will always be so. Back to my days in business and not tackling the failures with a box of band aid and some iodine cream but getting to the root cause most often bad management and bad direction. It was often the case that the way they managed brought out the opposite behaviour in their staff that they wanted. These course corrections incoming start to swing the vehicle until it gets out of control and crashes.
I see some placards in the demonstrator's hands saying "Tax the Rich don't reduce our benefits". The problem is that "the Rich" are no longer in this country. As they are rich and are generally mobile you need to go and track them down to <enter favoured tax haven here> because they are unable to work in this country for fear of being punished and having their money taken from them. If I were in that bracket, I think I'd be looking to do that.
I think we are mortally wounded financially and blaming Trump, Putin etc etc doesn't actually fix things it kicks the can down the road and as I've often said, you now own the problem and you have to get out of it. I used to be thrown into the brown and smelly stuff all the time and had to make the best of it. Very occasionally I'd have to tell management that it wasn't able to be fixed and they'd need to shut it down or get rid of it or whatever. If you could rescue a situation then you'd have to demand the power and the authority needed to go and do it. Once you had that, you could go and implement you plan and bring things back under control. No excuses, no procrastination, no pampering to the Nay Sayers, just get in there and fix it. Of course there'd be collateral damage but in the long term there would be benefit but potentially a lot of pain to get there.
If only our politicians had spines and brains. They are downright dangerous unsupervised as they are at present.
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