Thursday, November 02, 2006


Road operatives on £53,000 a year

Shock horror, the story reported in most of our tabloid newspapers yesterday including the Daily Mirror click here about Birmingham City council manual workers receiving above average pay packets.

I must admit I am slightly envious myself, and note that this is a gift of a story particularly for the likes of the Daily Mail and Express whose readers are in the main lower-middle-class Tories, but I wonder what's really eating these tabloid hacks and editors, is the fact that some working-class oik is almost earning as much as they do.

I say good luck to the employees of Birmingham City Council, why shouldn't they earn good money, it's easy enough to sit in a warm office with a cup of coffee typing up a load of old Bollix as many journalists do, I just wonder how they would fare out in the wind and rain dodging traffic whilst maintaining our country's roads, not very well I would imagine.

Perhaps a journalist could be found, to go out into the cold, investigate the risk, the amount of work done and then report with bit of balance and we would know whether these road workers earn their money or not I think they probably do.

4 comments:

  1. £53,000 a year? For shovelling sh*t? What is the world coming to!

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  2. Journalist probably doesn't even get that for writing sh*t.

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  3. May I add that politicians get paid a lot for talking sh*t?

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    Jack is the only son of Awe Schitt and O. Schitt, and he has an interesting family tree:
    In 1957, Awe Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, married O. Schitt, the owner of Needeep N. Schitt, Inc.
    They had one son, Jack.
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    Fulla Schitt
    Shineola (who didn't really have the Schitt Face)
    Giva Schitt
    Bull Schitt (who really looked like Schitt, the father),
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    These athletic brothers, Krappy and Ugglee, married the stunningly beautiful Happens Sisters in a dual ceremony.
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    Dawg Schitt
    Byrd Schitt
    Hoarse Schitt
    and Pigh Schitt
    But once again, Jack lost his love for his wife, and left to tour the world. He recently returned from an extended visit to Italy with his newest bride, Pisa.
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