during his appearance on “10 O’clock Live” Bob Crow has proved himself an utter idiot. His genius idea for solving the current financial crisis (it was all caused by the bankers don’t you know, not by years of Government borrowing)is …. a tax on e-mail. He reckons that charging just a penny per e-mail would solve the whole fiscal dilemma we find ourselves in, after all which would we rather a mere penny per e-mail or to lose meals-on-wheels and hospitals. So lets just ignore how on earth you’d actually collect such a tax, or what you’d do about all the people using e-mail servers abroad, or the effect such a tax would have on the IT industry. As all of that would be far to easy to pick on – instead I’d just like to observe that in the same interview the rather well remunerated Mr Crow observed that no matter how much his union members earned he’d be campaigning to get them higher pay – presumably so they could afford to eat after paying all the taxes he’d raise to avoid cutting spending. Of course given his presumably aspirational salary the odd tax increase or three won’t make much difference.
I’m not actually sure why I watch “10 O’clock Live” as it has less wit and offer poorer commentary than either “mock the week” or “have I got news for you”. I think I’m still trying to decide if it’s a comedy show based on news or a news show trying to be funny. In either case it fails – but I’d like to work out just how it’s failing and what depths of idiocy it can actually plumb. I’m going to resist the temptation to whinge about any of the other bits of tonights show as I’m still boggling at Mr Crows “tax email” scheme – which they did manage to be incredulous about.
In other news apologies for even lighter than normal blogging work is a bit mad and will be for the next while at least, and I’ve had the odd social commitment all of which has conspired to keep me away from the keyboard.
