National treasure leg-iron is on top form at present:
The equinoxes are of special significance in health care and all the doctor’s patients will die unless he performs a ceremony at midnight, naked and soaked in goat’s blood and gecko urine while chanting the words to Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans Europe Express’ backwards over a candle made from liposuction residue.
Fortunately I’d finished my tea by the time I got to this bit.
Elsewhere he says:
Why didn’t Darling do his own tax return and let the professional accountants set the Budget? That would make much more sense. In fact, why are there no qualifications or experience requirements for any of the jobs in government? How come I’d need a degree in accounting to be the finance officer in a small business but need no qualifications whatever to run the country’s coffers? There should be minumum requirements for those jobs. Ministers in charge of finance should have qualifications in finance. Those in charge of justice should have some idea of what the word means. The Home Office should be run by someone whose sanity is checked weekly and nobody with an IQ of less than 140 and a steady temperament should be able to be Prime Monster.
Would not the setting of minimum requirements for political (as opposed to civil service) jobs have the undesirable effect of tending to maintain the present élite?
Just a thought.
No, setting the right requirements would get rid of them, because the first requirement of all ought to be the qualifying period of five years’ employment in a genuine wealth-creating business or a non-fake charity. Preferably in a role where you have to balance a budget or meet a payroll every month.
Needless to say, any kind of public-sector, or public-sector subsidised, activity would not qualify.
That would leave not many of the present House of Commons, I reckon, and a good thing too.
Can’t argue with that.