Are all politicians hypocrites?

How come that Brown & Bush, funny still two B's. can onbject to Turkey invading Iraq.

I thought that is what they did, invade Iraq. Is it only the west who can invade other peoples countries. After all the British stole it from the Turks in 1918, I am not sure who the Turks stole it from before that.

It is all very odd, perhaps someone can make some sense of ot.

Directors lack of repsonsibilty

A few months ago Cadbury's was fined about one million pounds for Health & Safety failures. This seems like a lot of money but to a company the size of Cadbury's it is chicken feed. The trouble is that it costs those who are responsible nothing. Somebody took decisions which cuased the salmonella outbreak but they are not fined. In a company the size of Cadbury's the difficulty of identfying the individuals and the cahin of command that cuased the errors is far to complex and would for anyone outside the company would be far too difficult. We saw a similar sitaution many years ago when the Herald of Free Enterprise sank.

One proposal would be to make the directors responsible for paying any fines, ultimately they run the company and when it does well they like to take the praise, however when things go wrong it is never their fault. Thus by giving them this responsibility they might take their duty of care more seriously, especially non-executive directors who just seem to be on a gravy train. When things go wrong they never seem to know what was going on and were misled. Surely they are their to make sure that they know what is going on and keep the executive directors on their toes.

To keep things in perspective, a fine of one million pounds share amongst the directors, given their pay levels, would not hurt them too much but might make them think twice about what goes on in their companies and not see them just as a gravy train to be milked for money till they go bust or can be sold.

We do seem to live in a world where people are more & more unwilling to take respnsibilty for their decisions and perhaps we need as a society to reimpose the idea that when you get top jobs with top pay then a lot of respnsibility goes with it and when you screw up you take the pain and accept that it was your fault.

Politicians and how to improve their performance

I have oftem wondered whu politicians, especially MP's, are so incompetent. Perhaps it is drugs. If you think for a while, they spend their time in house of commons drinking, and passing laws. Should anyone under the influence of alchohol, or any other drug for that matter, be allowed to vote on changes to laws. You can't drive or do most responsible jobs whilst under the influence so why should MP's be allowed to vote. My first proposal is that no MP is allowed to vote if they fail a breathalyser test at the same level as required for driving a car.

Similar arguments apply to tiredness, there is no doubt that ones judgement if often wrong when tired, as a mathematician many neat arguments fall apart after a good nights sleep. So as truck and coach drivers are not permitted to work more than 8 hours without a proper break the same should apply to politicians, and probably doctors, nurses and other workers whose decisions cannot be changed after a good nights rest.


We then come to the issue of pay, MP's despite their views are still overpaid. Remeber it is a job with involves no training, no skills and no assessment. However on of the problems is that most MP's are amateurs and if they do not get some sort of government job try to pick up further work. To sort this out I propose taht all income received by MP's should paid to the state, whether as ministers or from outside earnings. It is emant to be a full time job, the only group which is allowed to earn money outside are academics and very few paople care what they do, they certainly have no influence on anything.

So there are three proposals to improve the performance of MP's

(i) no voting whilst under the influence of drugs,
(ii) enforced rest so no voting when judgement is likely to be affected by tiredness and
(iii) earnings to be deducted from salary as MP.