Labour council policy on dead horses………..

The tribal wisdom of the native American Lakota people, passed on from generation to generation, says –

“when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is
to dismount.”

However, in government, education and the corporate world, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:-

1. Buying a bigger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride
dead
horses.

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead
horse’s
performance.

10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve
the
dead horse’s performance.

11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.