Wednesday 20th October 2010

Or, first cut is the deepest.

Or, until the next cut.

Or, the first cut won't hurt at all.

Yes, the axeman cometh, and is cut, cut, cutting away, slashing budgets, spending and the such all over the place.

I find it all too much to listen to. I remember two years ago, a certain Prime minister of Scottish extraction telling us he had saved the world. Or something. And now the cost of that act of charity is all to clear. And, of course, it is not the bankers (Cockney rhyming slang) that is going to pay for these debts; it is the poor, the sick and elderly that will.

Just shows that things don't change. Thing is, I know the cuts have to be made, as the sums don't add up. But then the chancellor has admitted he knows very little about economics. But then again, Mr G. Brown was an economics major, and look how good he was!

The Governor of the Bank of England says a decade of pain or something like it lays ahead, and that manufacturing and exports are the way forward. Just the one problem that very few people make stuff any more. And for those that do, the future is ever more unsure as the nation's biggest employer, the government, is going to lay 495,000 at least off, meaning they will be buying less stuff, thus stifling demand even more.

And it goes on.

Today, work went well; meetings, preparing powerpoint presentations, writing mails and making phone calls. Lots of phone calls, to a Swedish call centre, trying to get a credit card activated so I can go to Denmark next week for meetings and the such. All is done now, and it only took three hours to sort out, seven international phone calls, and panic as my mobile did not work, and the activation code had to be sent by SMS only!

My office was painted today; it is now a swish magnolia colour, which makes a pleasant change from the dull magnolia it was before. There is a reason, but for now I don't know why.

Other that that, things go on much the same way; each day I understand a little more of what I am supposed to be doing, and everyone seems happy with what I am doing.

Which is nice.