Re: The yanks are naive!

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:30:07 GMT, "Harry Keane"
<Harry_Keane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Hatter Returns" <bill.gates@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:12:54 +0100, "Not Today"
<Nottoday@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

Hey....why didn't WE get the message in the first oil crisis.

Let's see, we spend five hundred million pounds a year making sure
our
members of parliament are kept in the style to which they've never
been accustomed to.

So, are you suggesting we don't have a Parliament? Or merely that
its elected members are drawn from the independently wealthy classes
and therefore don't require salaries or expenses?

Are you volunteering to serve as a representative of your community
and fund everything out of your own pocket? I think that's very
generous of you. You've got my vote.

As usual you're deliberately missing the point. Still, you've not
resorted to abuse yet which is a plus.

As you've taken up an underlying and irrelevant point, i'll entertain
you for a while.

I went for a job in Scotland the other day. It was a very senior job.
I got it i'm pleased to say.

But the b'stards played really tight. They actually asked me if I was
going to be moving there! No way I said, I expect £12k per year to
fund the mortgage on a house in the area. Yes, I know the repayments
where only £8k per year, but you know - I have .... needs.

They explained I had to produce receipts for business expenses.
RECEIPTS i ask you! I told them i had not intention of keeping
receipts... too messy, not my style and why should I?

They also looked rather shocked when I mentioned that I expected a
residence right next to the office for those late nighters.
Unbelievably, they'd not yet purchased a tower block to house all of
their senior staff. I was gobsmacked and suggested they got onto it
right away - to a tirade of disbelief and gobsmacking. No, I didn't
think it was overkill to have a paid for residence and a flat nearer
the office for general useage.

Then came to tax and what I expected them to pay for me. My demands
of tax free alcohol supply, subsidised canteen serving good quality
food for a fiver and to ensure that around my office where private car
parks, cash point machines, restaurants, pubs, a sports and social
club and a host of other benefits in kind where scoffed at and
insulted with phrases like "you must be out of your mind". As were my
suggestions of 24 hour police security.

Anyway, after careful consideration i'm not going to be taking up the
post. Apparantly they were going to withdraw the offer after seeing
my list of requirements anyway - unbelievably they thought I was
expecting too much. Ha.

Too much? I know an office around Westminster where the staff get
those kinds of perks and more. You should see their pension and the
opportunities once their staff leave. When questioned about it, they
just mention that they only want what anyone else in a senior position
gets so I just assume that what i'm asking for was perfectly
reasonable.

Isn't it?

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