[Redbook1:50-51][19680522:2200]{Government Skulduggery}[22nd
May 1968][Age 16]
Wednesday 22nd May
1968
10.00 p.m.
There [are]
a lot of disquieting factors appearing in government. For example, the Labour
government has stopped allowances for hours attended for G[reater] L[ondon] C[ouncil] members; it has
only left compensation for money not earned at work, for which professional men
-- mostly Conservatives, I should think -- are not eligible, since they have no
set scale of fees. Again, there is much guillotining etc of eg the Transport
Bill, so the Opposition don't get a chance to amend, object, etc. I also get
the impression that when an Opposition member objects, the Govt. spokesman
replies without actually answering the question -- merely being sarcastic at
the expense of the Opposition speech. Apparently the Opposition then doesn't
get a chance to press for an answer again, through lack of time. I am not sure
about this last point, but it does seem rather like that.
It is my
17th birthday tomorrow. I shall be eligible to apply for a time to take a
driving test to fill in a form to obtain a driving licence to let me drive a
lethal machine at seventy miles an hour, using only my own faculties for
guidance and my own limbs for control.
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