Thursday 31 May 2012

It is a well known, but rarely admitted fact that British males are notoriously bad drivers. They can often be seen stubbornly heading aimlessly in the wrong direction, refusing to take advise from the person sat next to them holding the map. They will sometimes change direction, and head aimlessly yet determinedly, in another wrong direction. Often they will do this several times, for many an hour before they finally admit they are lost- and then invariably, they blame the whole mess on someone else. It also a fact that if the driver is over tired or has been drinking, that his judgement can be impaired.The question that should be asked is of course, should these people in control at all?
 This week, with MP's on spring break ( or whatever title is given to this latest holiday) you might think the political highways would be quiet. Not so.
The Government have been busily performing spectacular u turns, three in a week, in what some might say is an attempt to divert attention from other matters.
 The u-turns might be making the head lines but are they the real issue? Many people believe the pasty tax was despite hitting mainly the poorest the hardest, actually fair. Many may argue that more of a "fat tax" should be added to sausage rolls and the like. I for one think that if it can be justifiable that smokers are not aloud to see what they are about to purchase, because they are not clever enough to realise the damage to themselves or the cost to the tax payer, then it is surely high time we tackled obesity by putting pasties cakes and lard in a wooden cabinet out of sight. 
Many also believe that millionaires piling money into charities to avoid paying tax is not fair. Some people probably do not care if there is VAT on new caravans, or haven't even given it that much thought..
The more pertinent issue is who the hell is making these decisions. Badly thought through policies, badly appointed staff, badly delivered budget. When describing the Tory lead coalition government the one word that is been used ever increasingly by all media platforms, is incompetence.
Dave the rave said recently in an interview reportedly, that he likes to chilax with a cheeky glass of wine or two on date nights with glamorous wife Sam. Maybe this burning the candle at both ends is impairing his judgement. The big question today is should Mr Cameron order an enquiry into whether Jeremy Hunt broke the ministerial code. The big question should be was it extremely bad judgement giving him the job in the first place. It is obvious to all that when Vince Cable was relieved of his duties for being biased against the Murdoch's, his replacement needed to be completely unbiased and capable of making fair decisions. Jeremy Hunt was clearly neither of these.

Mr Camerons judgement has been brought into question several times already during his short stint of power. His party co chair Baroness Warsi, appointed by the PM in order to bring ethnic and working class personnel into the party, but disliked by most in it, is under the spotlight in an enquiry over her expenses. His former head of communications and personal friend Andy Coulson, former News Corp employee (another link) was this week charged with perjury. Quite simply Cameron and Osbourne are nitwits muddling through the jobs they believe they were born to occupy. The only real jobs they have actually had, and on the evidence so far, probably the last. Another perfect example of bad judgement from them, was asking Tory donor and millionaire venture capitalist Lord Beecroft to submit a report on Business law reforms. Surely ACAS would have been a better equipped and more impartial reporter. Beecroft was never going to offer an unbiased or fair opinion. Cameron may as well have asked Gary Glitter to offer recommendations on the age of consent.

These are critical times, with the possibility of another armed conflict, this time with Syria, (and maybe Russia), a political conflict with the rest of Europe and a double dip recession at home.Do we really want a a pair of arrogant posh boys with no passion to understand the lives of others, carrying out an experiment with not only our future but the future of our children and probably their children?
The answer is absolutely and utterly NO. They show no remorse, they show no understanding, no grace, no loyalty to even each other in their own party, and no hope of aspiration for normal working class people.
That said, Ed and Ed and the Labour faithful should not be rubbing their hands at these troubled times for the Government. If Cameron and Osborne are not fit to lead this country then there still has to be question marks of biblical proportions over the Labour leadership.

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