Long Holidays

This morning, as many people start a long holiday, it's important to remember that if you are in a 9-5 job with 4 weeks annual leave you should be envious. That envy needs to be sharpened and honed into something poisonous. 

Luckily, journalists, who often don't even leave at 5 (especially on deadline day), are there to help us. They can write opinion pieces about just how lazy these people are. They can question their usefulness in society. They can suggest these people with long holidays are overpaid for the hours they actually do. Thank goodness the journalists are there. I was beginning to think that they deserved a long Summer break, after all those long late night meetings but the journalists reminded me that it's only the highly effective leaders who actually go to these meetings and we all know how few of those there are. Although, these skivers with the long holidays will tell us that they are still working in that holiday; it is a job that never lets you switch off completely; the press provides us with pictures. So, when we see the pictures from secluded private Italian Islands, or the edge of the yacht sailing around Corfu (what Greek crisis?) we know not to believe that old rhetoric.

Happy summer recess to all MPs. I really hope you enjoy your well earned seven week break.