Richard Littlejohn's House of Fun

I've been reading excerpts from Richard Littlejohn's new book, published by Hutchinson on April 1st at £12.99, and titled, Littlejohn's House of Fun: Thirteen Years of (Labour) Madness.

I'm torn between declaring it a great book for its sense of humour and a great book for its declaration of the truth that lies behind the myth of Labour's Social gospel.

If, like myself, you often cannot believe the extent of idiocy that has been introduced by the government of the last thirteen years --- far exceeding anything that has happened in the past --- then this book should be a 'must-read' for you.

If you are astounded by the leniency shown to criminals and the draconian sentences imposed on ordinary folk who dare to stand up against their local council, then you have to read this book.

If you find it difficult to believe that councils will pay huge 'fat act' salaries to people for a variety of made-up jobs with creative job titles, then you have to read this book. After all, where would you go to find crazier jobs than some of those that have been on offer such as the job advertised by Lewisham Council who were recruiting for a '£41,000 per annum position, promoting healthy weight'? Week after week, year after year, the various Labour-controlled Councils create more and more non-jobs, all of which cost the tax-payers a small fortune.

Do you wonder why your Council Tax demands increase year upon year? It's easy to understand why when you stop and think about Council chiefs who are paid in hundreds of thousands of pounds per year for doing what was once done voluntarily by publicly-minded citizens. Of course, today's bureaucrats will argue that the very size of their organisations make it necessary to pay these huge salaries out, but of course, if you scrap all of the unnecessary jobs that they have created in the first place, then the organisations will be brought down to size, and the fat-cat employees running them, likewise.

I could go on and on citing instances of the reckless and foolish behaviour of both Councils and Governments, but then you can see much of that for yourselves, dear readers, and probably experience it first-hand as well.

Oh, for a return to the days when Public Servants actually served the Public Interest rather than their own nefarious ends. Oh, for a time when our street were swept clean by someone who actually cared, rather than being left to build up the detritus cast onto them by a yob culture which has no pride in anything at all!