Britons Need Better Work Ethic

I am going to keep political posts to a bare minimum on this website but a news item I read today really touched a nerve with me. Our esteemed prime minister claims that Britons need a better work ethic to become more socially mobile. Unfortunately, under the present Labour government, this is just not possible.

Those of us who actually bother to work, put in longer hours than any other country in Europe and also have the highest tax burden. What really riles me about this article is while Brown bangs on about encouraging people to work harder, he then plans on giving out even more of our hard earned taxes to the feckless - this time a £200 bung to “poor parents” to ensure their children get basic medical attention.

That’s correct. He plans to give “poor parents” (also know as the dole sponging dregs of society who are too lazy to bother looking after their children properly) a cash bribe to take their offspring to the doctors, which is free under the NHS anyway.

Demand a better work ethic from the rapidly shrinking percentage of the population who actually want to improve their own lives and give the “Jeremy Kylers” even more money for nothing. Or, even worse, give them money for doing something they should be doing anyway as a parent. If these oxygen stealers are too thick, lazy or useless to take their children to the doctors, they should have them taken away by social services, not be given another state-funded sweetener to buy more fags, booze and takeaways.

Stop Complaining

The message from the Labour government has been very negative over the last couple of days. MP for Glasgow South Tom Harris claime that Britons should stop being “so bloody miserable” could not have come at a worse time, given the current economic climate while chancellor Alistair Darling claims everyone should accept a pay rise which matches the government’s two per cent inflation target. MPs and those with their noses firmly in the local government trough excluded, naturally.

So, taking all of this into account, the message from Labour is quite clear:

1. Work Harder
2. For Less Money
3. And Stop Moaning About It

There has never been less incentive to work for a living because there is just not enough reward for doing so. The cost of living is spiralling upwards with inflation thought to be at around nine percent rather than the government’s rather optimistic two and your meagre wages are being taxed ever further, through necessity or by stealth.

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

Things are going to get worse before they improve and I am so glad I now work for myself and am able to avoid paying so much tax on the money I make. I will claim as many “expenses” with the carefree attitude of an MP to ensure I pay the bare legal minimum into a bureaucratic system which will do its best to find an excuse not to help me should my circumstances take a turn for the worse.

I have the work ethic that Brown demands of people like me, but I will make damn sure that my hard work rewards me financially and not some useless dole scum, immigrant or paper shuffler at the local government office.

Working for yourself is the only way to go in 2008. We will soon be returning to the days of every man (and of course, woman) for themselves and if you want to have a better chance of enjoying some form of comfortable existance in 21st Century Britain, then you need to set yourself up in business sooner rather than later.

I look forward to hearing from you.