Time to end charitable approach to public funds

People who live in subjugated countries ruled by dictatorships have no choice but to be tolerant or, at least, accepting. We, however, are tolerant by choice. It could be argued that we are far too tolerant for our own good.

That is the only description that can be placed on a people whose government, the elite few surrounding government, banks and commercial life, appear to be immune from the effects of the austerity programme imposed on the population at large. As they might say in less polite circles: ‘It’s bad enough when someone climbs up your back; it’s a whole other matter when he starts relieving himself down your neck and then tries to persuade you that it’s raining.”

Yet, at the top of the food chain, it appears we have a group of people who have barely missed a beat. It’s very much a case of business as usual. Mega-euro consultancies, paid for by the tax payer, but benefiting only the same chosen few, are doled out like snowflakes in a storm. Major contracts are awarded without a competitive tendering process.