Bog Standards and Fiscal Discipline
Off to buy trainers with Patrick. I have shown him the cost of BNIB Nike Shox on ebay. Way over my budget even there. Next I take him to Tesco. And show him the £5 a pair item that would do the job. But admittedly even I would not impose those. JJB Sports, Shox are £38.99 and Umbro Owens £24.99, and Decathlon have their own £5 model.
Back to JJB. He can hear other kids pushing for ridiculous label models too. Most fotunately being rebutted by sensible parents. He will not buy into his sister's marvellous "no logo" stance. She evn has a pair of Decathlon's finest budget trainers. But I reckon he is open to persuasion.
My budget £20. No, he cannot come back with his mum another day. But, for every pound he gets under that I will give him a 50p boost to his economy. He quickly chooses eponymous Patrick's at £9.99 and pockets £5 there and then.
Off to Borders and I offer him a 50% uplift in his bonus to buy a book. He gets it anyway for a new deck of Pokemon cards. But I'm still £2 ahead and £21 ahead of the Shox position. Bog standard Trainers cool enough after all.
Five Live is playing sport so I tune in to Four instead. A Business flavoured The World This Weekend. Digby Jones has just buried the good news of unprecedented economic numbers and stability, and Britain being the best place in the whole of Europe to do business mentioned en passant with a whinge about regulations. Of course there is a case to answer here.
But BBC Four's case is weakened as the Toy Shop in York they visit to make their case only really has extra forms to get benefit of generous training money and wage subsidies.
Next, the presenter whinges that Mr Blair is not joining them as the other party leaders will but that we have to make do with Mr Prescott.
I think I would send Johnno rather than Bleugh in to bat against this rather pompous presenter myself. And before long a rather agricultural style and those famous punchy forearms are creaming the long hops and full tosses and even the tougher googlies and yorkers round the ground for fours and sixes.
Presenter bowls a loosener. He jeers at Bleugh's intro to the manifesto which as well as praising the economic successes gives an example of where fiscal discipline has got us in eight years. Our schoolchildren no longer have to use outside toilets in any school in the land. Presenter says if Rory Bremner came out with this it would be A1 satire.
Johnno goes forward not back and crashes it back over his head into the stands. "That's outrageous" he says "In 1997 school buildings were falling down around children's ears after 18 years of Tory neglect. Investment in schools and hospitals has been terrific. Do you want to go back to outside toilets and leaky roofs?"
I remember Bog Alley at my own school and I'm with John 100% on this. The knockabout continues with Tory plans to slash Billions, and to remove minimum wage protection from agriculture. Not to mention Labour's success in cutting the overall business tax burden and a huge simplification in VAT with bargain fiscal deals for small businesses and organisations in many sectors.
Bog standards and fiscal discipline win the day. Prescott carries his bat proudly aloft as the crowd rise to their feet.
Back to JJB. He can hear other kids pushing for ridiculous label models too. Most fotunately being rebutted by sensible parents. He will not buy into his sister's marvellous "no logo" stance. She evn has a pair of Decathlon's finest budget trainers. But I reckon he is open to persuasion.
My budget £20. No, he cannot come back with his mum another day. But, for every pound he gets under that I will give him a 50p boost to his economy. He quickly chooses eponymous Patrick's at £9.99 and pockets £5 there and then.
Off to Borders and I offer him a 50% uplift in his bonus to buy a book. He gets it anyway for a new deck of Pokemon cards. But I'm still £2 ahead and £21 ahead of the Shox position. Bog standard Trainers cool enough after all.
Five Live is playing sport so I tune in to Four instead. A Business flavoured The World This Weekend. Digby Jones has just buried the good news of unprecedented economic numbers and stability, and Britain being the best place in the whole of Europe to do business mentioned en passant with a whinge about regulations. Of course there is a case to answer here.
But BBC Four's case is weakened as the Toy Shop in York they visit to make their case only really has extra forms to get benefit of generous training money and wage subsidies.
Next, the presenter whinges that Mr Blair is not joining them as the other party leaders will but that we have to make do with Mr Prescott.
I think I would send Johnno rather than Bleugh in to bat against this rather pompous presenter myself. And before long a rather agricultural style and those famous punchy forearms are creaming the long hops and full tosses and even the tougher googlies and yorkers round the ground for fours and sixes.
Presenter bowls a loosener. He jeers at Bleugh's intro to the manifesto which as well as praising the economic successes gives an example of where fiscal discipline has got us in eight years. Our schoolchildren no longer have to use outside toilets in any school in the land. Presenter says if Rory Bremner came out with this it would be A1 satire.
Johnno goes forward not back and crashes it back over his head into the stands. "That's outrageous" he says "In 1997 school buildings were falling down around children's ears after 18 years of Tory neglect. Investment in schools and hospitals has been terrific. Do you want to go back to outside toilets and leaky roofs?"
I remember Bog Alley at my own school and I'm with John 100% on this. The knockabout continues with Tory plans to slash Billions, and to remove minimum wage protection from agriculture. Not to mention Labour's success in cutting the overall business tax burden and a huge simplification in VAT with bargain fiscal deals for small businesses and organisations in many sectors.
Bog standards and fiscal discipline win the day. Prescott carries his bat proudly aloft as the crowd rise to their feet.
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