Cameron, in his increasing desperation is to raid our wallets to send us propaganda.
Brexit campaigners have reacted angrily to the Government’s decision to publish a pro-EU campaign leaflet and send it to every household in the country.
Given the source, an unbiased explanation of the options is not what this thing will be. So, ours will go unopened in the bin where it belongs (although I could use it as substrate for the tortoise enclosure – they will know what to do with it). I am already aware of the facts. I have been for the past forty years. I don’t need some patronising bullshit from the stay camp telling me lies. Worse, though, is that I am paying for it. That really sticks in my craw.
The EU is run by an unelected, unaccountable oligarchy. That is all we need to know.
Dear Mr Longrider
Whoever authorised this abuse of taxpayers’ money ought to be reported for prosecution for misconduct in a public office.
If that nice Mr Cameron thinks it is money well spent, he should be spending his own money, not the taxpayers’, though I doubt that he can see the logic in that.
DP
He can’t spend his own money it’s tied up in Panama. Mind you, if he didn’t waste so much of our money he wouldn’t have to take so much of it from us in the first place and people wouldn’t feel it necessary to avoid having to pay tax on it.
Sinecure:
Noun. A position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.
I have a feeling that politicians on both sides of the house might have been hoping to blag one of these after being kicked out of office. I’m guessing, but I have a feeling that the EU might be the world’s largest supplier of sinecures. I don’t suppose that sacked pollies from ex member states get much of a look in. So, while the Government leafleting the entire nation, at taxpayers’ expense, giving only one side on a matter that the Government ought to be neutral on, is utterly disgraceful. I can sort of understand why it happened. I also think that it might be an own goal.
As an aside, I sometimes follow the random links to old posts here. I found an old post from 2011 and found an old Stonyground comment beneath. I was surprised to see that I have been following this blog for five years. How time flies.
I always understood it is an offence to use public funds to put forward a political proposal, for that is what this leaflet/pamphlet/piece of toilet paper surely is. Instead of putting it in the bin, redirect it, unopened, to the constituency office of David Cameron with the words “Load of bollocks” on it. After a couple of sacks of this, he may understand the feelings of the public.
Splendid idea: I will follow your suggestion and suggest to friends and relatives that they do likewise.
As always, the spoof news sites are right on it. This is from Newsthump.
“Millennials are excited to experience the new ‘Leaflet’ technology being used by the government to engage young voters.
With £9m being spent the innovation, those voters under the age of 25 are delighted to finally feel like they are part of the process and have taken to the app store to look for ‘Leaflet’.
Voter Simon Williams told us, “I’m 21, so this will be my second proper vote, but I admit I’m confused by a lot of the jargon being used by the politicians.
“What is ‘Leaflet’? Is it like Snapchat? Will they be sending out stories to explain the issues? Or is it more like Whatsapp with mostly real-time text and photos?
“To be honest, it’s a bit embarrassing to know that the government is further ahead of me when it comes to social communication technology and getting its message out there.”
We then took Williams to one side to show him a ‘leaflet’.
“What? Like in the olden days? Surely that’s, like, a ridiculously expensive and inefficient way to reach voters, for what is likely to be limited benefit?”
“Oh.”