Once upon a time, bonuses were paid as an addition to the salary if the performance of the individual, or perhaps the team, exceeded the job specification and targets that were part of the job.

Basically, if a worker actually does his/her job properly then they would not get a bonus. Why not? Because they did the job that they were paid for.

Nowdays, there are too many companies where the bosses get paid huge bonuses for achieving targets that are little more than their job specification. They get large salaries for doing their job, and then get large bonuses for doing their job.

This is not the same as those workers who get minimal salaries and whose earnings are based on their efforts and their performance. The commission structure generally means that these workers do get rewarded for the efforts that they put in.

Unfortunately we have seen a massive increase in this this greedy bonus culture amongst state sector organisations. Our taxes are being used to pay massive bonuses for those running these organisations.

We need to stop these greedy bosses from abusing the people of the UK who do not want their taxes being used to pay bonuses on top of the huge salaries these greedy people are getting!

Just watching a discussion on tv.

I hope that Labour MP, Angela Eagle carries on fronting the Labour attempts to justify it's actions and get back in power! In my view,   she  (and her leader Brown) are helping the Conservative cause and doing Labour harm. Which is good!

She was saying that the banks should be lending money to get the economy going. But (almost) everybody in the UK knows that the government (the one that she is a minister in) has told the banks to build up liquidity and they are doing this rather than financing the businesses and the mortgages  of the UK!

We all know that, the banks know that, the businesses know that.

So why does Eagle not seem to know that when she talks about the banks financing businesses and house loans.

I also like the way that Labour, particularly Brown and Eagle on tv tonight, blame the credit crunch for the financial problems.  They seem to forget that Brown was in charge of regulating the financial industry in the years before it went belly up with a severe case of bad loans!

The fact that the US and other countries had similar problems does not let New Labour off the hook in the UK. Their actions (or inactions!)  allowed the credit crunch to hit the UK severely.

So it is a severe case of hypocrisy to blame the credit crunch for the UK's problems!!!!!

I have a fairly low opinion of the competency of New Labour and their leaders.

But the way that our leadership run the country affects so many people, in same cases the consequences are awful.

One of Gordon Brown's personal statements on what he was going to do to help families who were having problems paying their mortgage was to introduce the Mortgage Rescue Scheme. This was a key announcement by Brown and it was intended to show how he was able to respond to the needs of people who were likely to lose their homes because of the recession.

It took time for the scheme to come into effect, during which many people would have had their homes repossessed!

But we now find that the number of people that the scheme has helped in England is 15.  It is good that 15 families have been helped but what about all the other families who have had their homes repossessed? 

15 families helped! In Scotland it is around 1000 families, in Wales it is 70 families.

There were 11,400 repossessions between April and June. Yet this grandly announced scheme of Gordon Brown  has only helped 15 families!

Is this just incompetence by our government? Or are they only interested in saving the banking system?

Perhaps the officials involved in awarding certificates showing that school kids are able to catch a bus, should have been  spending their time on the Mortgage Rescue Scheme!

The move to force people to pay the legal costs even if they are found innocent of the charges  is an appalling move by Gordon Brown, even by New Labour's  own standards!!

What this legal change does is to remove justice from the middle classes.

Over the last 12 years, New Labour have given powers to many groups of people, powers that allow them to monitor and control the  UK population.

It won't actually matter any more if the police, traffic wardens and all these other officials make mistakes or even make up offences or simply tell lies.

There is no way that most people will now be able to challenge ANYaccusations made by these people.

Whatever people are accused of,  they are going to be forced to plead guilty, even if they risk going to jail simply because they don't have the money to defend themselves.

Another serious attack on our freedoms! If Brown carries on like this then we may not even have an election to throw him out of power!!

Why do Labour need to make these cuts? Because their policies in dealing with the recession (that they allowed to happen) have ruined the UK economy!