There's a blindingly obvious solution which could be implemented quite quickly.
Compulsory euthanasia for anyone over 75.
NHS saves money. Councils save money on care homes, lots of housing gets freed up so no need to build on the green belt, inheritances bring money into the economy. Funeral directors get rich and need more staff, creating jobs for those who used to work in care homes, hospital beds get freed up, DWP save a fortune on pensions and pension credits, pension companies get massive windfalls and can be taxed on them, and it could even be a green revolution using them as fuel in power stations rather than just the occasional council swimming pool warmed by the local crematorium.
After all, then there'd be loads of money for a decent innings over 5 years over the allotted 3 score and ten, rather than hanging on until the NHS can be bothered to bump you off through neglect and starvation if you're too bloody-minded to cop C-Diff or MRSA.
The Penguin
The Greeks could do their bit by using their dinner plates more than once.
ReplyDeleteThey should go out with some ceremony, we could call it the Carousel.
ReplyDeleteBeen watching 'Logan's Run' by any chance?
ReplyDeleteOi. Wind your penguin neck in !
ReplyDeleteTry your luck on my old mam and you'll be on your way to the great iceberg in the sky Penguin.
ReplyDeleteBugger. I've only 13 years left.
ReplyDeleteTo get my money back, I'll just have to try and worm my way into a state run care home early.
To get my money back, I'll just have to try and worm my way into a state run care home early.
ReplyDeleteHouses of Parliament?
Why not just vernichten Labour voters? More diverse, much more fun.
That's it. They can enoble me for services to.............. I dunno.
ReplyDeleteOt took WW2 to get the west out of its last recession, hint.
ReplyDelete"Ot took WW2 to get the west out of its last recession, hint" ...
ReplyDeleteYep, the ingredients are all there mate ..
"And it could even be a green revolution using them as fuel in power stations rather than just the occasional council swimming pool warmed by the local crematorium."
ReplyDeleteDon't be too sure - the undertakers bill for my fathers cremation included the words "emission surcharge".
You can't go converting the dead into nasty CO2 - Global Warming Alert!! - think of the Penguins...
Seriously, I wouldn't agree with euthanasia but I would legalise the right to die / assisted suicide. Why prolong suffering for terminal patients? We don't do that for animals and the NHS spends a fortune on pointless paliative care.
ReplyDeleteOr if you really want to end the recession, then you could do what Greece is doing and just cancel the debts you owe?
Wont apply to the Royal family or the political classes will it, be careful what you wish for.
ReplyDeletewith the prolonged attack on disabled people I thought they had already begun this?
ReplyDeleteactually if they threw in everybody on benefits and all those on earnings of less than £50,000 a year then I'm pretty sure that would do the trick!
if all that was left was the politiicans even they would get sick of each other and then start murdering each other
great idea