Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Thoughts?

Thoughts?
For One Short Moment Forget The Expenses Debacle.


In the midst of all the justified furore of our once honourable members, I wish to pause to look at the mess 12 years of Labour lack of governance has brought us.
Education an utter shambles, hospitals no better than untold billions of wasted cash, police thuggish and politicised, a disgraced speaker still lauded as he is forced to quit. Our secret services and armed forces strapped for cash, a public transport like a "Carry On" film and our roads so badly maintained they kill untold thousands a year. We have a State Broadcaster who now makes The USSR Pravda look amateurs, we have laws forced upon us by a crowd of unelected EU Commissioners aided and abetted by an expenses culture Parliament, that puts our fraudsters in the bottom half of the Conference League.
At the head of this unmitigated disaster sits a man who picks his nose in public, is as nasty to his own party non-believers as he is to the rest of us doubters of his sanity. You might care to add your own list of failure and incompetence.
So amongst this shambles and wreckage of out Country Jimmy Brown "carries on" regardless. The Speaker, Labours' own place man, is forced to leave in shame. His ministers more singly corrupt than the rest of The House put together, remain intact and rich beyond most peoples' dreams. What has the great man have to say?
"Mr Brown again resisted calls for an early general election saying the crisis was not about government but about the system and it was reforming the system that would solve the problem."
Translation, "Nothing to do with me Guv." So was the system created in America? Did he change the system over the last 12 years? You bet he did. Well if these revelations of collective greed, neglect and utter arrogance and incompetence fail to force an election what will it take? For sure the real economic tsunami has not yet reached beyond the beach. That will hit around October. We should take heed and vote Labour into oblivion, or else face further destruction.

Hat tip oldrighie

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well I think the sea rowing club should be get power locally and the RNLI the majority in parliament. Honest people with an eye for the job in hand. Self financing. Fond of good architecture.

Anonymous said...

............and our MP milks the system and claims the maximum possible by way of additional costs allowance..............

Anonymous said...

Sorry about the length of this!

I like the idea of the Gov´t of the RNLI, they´re already too sensible to have anything to do with that bunch.

¨Education an utter shambles¨.

That may be true, but it´s a damn sight better than it was 20 years ago; and please do remember Labour are rebuilding or refurbishing every single school in the country. Why?, because the last incumbents did as little as possible and didn´t mind kids being taught in leaky Portacabins, using out of date text books, sitting on wonky chairs, etc.

¨Hospitals no better than untold billions of wasted cash, .....¨

I´m not sure that I understand that bit, but my experience of the Health Service was back in the early ´80´s and the last few years; I´m very impressed by the improvements.

¨Police thuggish¨

Presumably, you mean the latest bit of riot control – there´ll always be a few bad eggs, it´s appalling, but it´s a fact of life. Whether it´s Teachers, Social Workers, Police or Football Hoolies, a few bad eggs stain the rest.

¨....... a disgraced speaker still lauded as he is forced to quit¨.

The Old Boys Club – why are you surprised .......

¨Our secret services and armed forces strapped for cash,....¨

Really? Evidence please? Certainly there are a few examples of appalling planning, but on the whole, not too bad.

¨.... a public transport like a "Carry On" film ....¨

I was without transport about a year ago, all the buses and trains I took left and arrived pretty much on time. Cost £20 a week to use any Wilts and Dorset Bus at anytime. Granted there aren´t many over here, but over the water I never had to wait more than 15 mins to get a bus.

¨... and our roads so badly maintained they kill untold thousands a year¨.

Actually it´s about 3000; 20 years ago it was about 6000 – maybe there´s a message there?

¨We have a State Broadcaster who now makes The USSR Pravda look amateurs, ...¨

I can´t say that I understand that bit, the Beeb aint perfect, but it´s a damn site better than anything owned by Maxwell.

¨... we have laws forced upon us by a crowd of unelected EU Commissioners aided and abetted by an expenses culture Parliament, that puts our fraudsters in the bottom half of the Conference League¨.

So, unelected is bad, but so is elected. Your point? Remember, we are still one of the least corrupt countries in the world, so calm your hyperbole.

When people complain about the EU they seem to be saying that we have a long history of good Government. I can see little evidence of that, but find that when I´m in Europe their standards are far more ´civilised´ than ours.

I´m certainly not impressed with Brown, but then I wasn´t with Blair, or Major, or Thatcher, or Callaghan ......

¨His ministers more singly corrupt than the rest of The House put together,..¨

Yeah, I know, all those tennis courts and moats and Duck thingies, oh, sorry, that´s not them.

"Mr Brown again resisted calls for an early general election .... reforming the system that would solve the problem."

He´s squirming, but basically right. The system, voted for by MP´s of all colours, is the main cause, and then of course the MP´s, of all colours, who used the system. The vast majority of them have used a poor system in a reasonable manner – J Knight has always published his expenses – not in great detail, but at least he published.

¨So was the system created in America?¨

No, it was created here, and voted on by our MP´s – of all colours.

¨... collective greed, neglect and utter arrogance and incompetence fail to force an election what will it take?¨

What will an election change? We may get a new colour of Gov´t, but it´ll still be the same Old Boys Club. What we need is a change of system, and the only people who can do that are our elected MP´s, so don´t hold your breath.

Also. don´t forget that the reason we know about the expenses farce is because of an excellent piece of Labour legislation. I wonder what happened before we had the Freedom of Information Act?

Anonymous said...

WOW. what a load of C££p 248 pm you must be one of the sad idiots who think this govt: is doing well god help us if you think that. The evidence is all around us re every thing this govt does even to the point that they are monitoring your comments on here even your emails. I am going to cut and paste your comments to the wider blogsphere Ill return with their comments.

Anonymous said...

dear 2:58

you are wonderful!

¨... and our roads so badly maintained they kill untold thousands a year¨.

Actually it´s about 3000.

You post unfounded opinion, I post facts - go check!

¨... you must be one of the sad idiots who think this govt: is doing well...¨

¨I´m certainly not impressed with Brown, but then I wasn´t with Blair, or Major, or Thatcher, or Callaghan ......¨

So that makes me a Labour supporter?

Please do explain!

If you´re going to paste my comments to the wider blogosphere just make sure that you post to an Anachist site, a Socialist site, a Labour site, a Liberal site, a Conservative site and a Far Right site; and then get them to post their replies here.

It should be fun!

Anonymous said...

Damn my short-term memory!

Everything the Gov´t does!

They gave us the Freedom of Information Act - without that we´d never know about MP´s claims.

If they are monitoring this then I expect they´re quietly chuckling into their ruffs.

Anonymous said...

I thought it was an EU measure, of the sort that the shock horror brigade screech about, that forced the figures to be released. MPs had six years warning of this but they expected that the great English tradition of secrecy to be reimposed. The EU has caused a little light to be thrown on our nations ways, what else is to follow?

Actually I thought the original posting in this thread was so ridiculous that nobody would rise to the bait. Let him rave.I go with the IMF's view that the governments action over the economic crisis was the right thing to do. Something that does not fit into the world view of its critics of course so you need to read the financial columns to find it.

Anonymous said...

¨Actually I thought the original posting in this thread was so ridiculous that nobody would rise to the bait¨.

Well, yeah, but my lengthy response was written with a wry grin!

And I just can´t resist having a pop at hyperbole!

I was actually quite restrained, when s/he likened our public transport to a Carry On film, think of all the cheap jokes I could have made - mind you, On the Buses has probably done that already, although if you remember Carry on up the Khyber, then the dinner scene as they sit around being ´Engish´ as the , sorry, fuzzy wuzzies attack was a brilliant observation of ´Englishness´.

Get me my fiddle, it was a genuine error after all!

Anonymous said...

Its all the government's fault. I got caught in a shower the other day. Bound to be their fault.

Anonymous said...

At Last!!!
Some people have woken up and posted something!

Anonymous said...

My fiddle comment ended with an !, which is used to indicate humour. Your idiot comment ended with a !, so fair enough

But ¨the righteous strike again¨, whats´s that all about?

Anonymous said...

Mists of blue tinged nostalgia float before my eyes. Hurrah! We can return to the great days of the poll tax fiasco, cash for questions, doubling VAT in the name of tax reduction, why we might even get as far as the three day week!

Oh but I forget. The posters now say Conservative Change. Once you get beyond the oxymoronic nature of the slogan you realise it is lifted from Obahama's campaign and we are in the familiar territory of pinching whatever works in American politics and trying it here. A few years ago it was the neo-con nonsense that gladdened the hearts of the likes of Michael (something of the night) Howard, now its Obahma's homage to Blair and New Labour! "Turn, turn, turn, turn" as the song had it. "To everything there is a season"

And as its Sunday: "For here we have no continuing city" (Hebrews 13:14)

Anonymous said...

I think that you are being unfair!

Dave Blair, sorry Cameron, is a fine upstanding young man who has bugger all experience of life outside of Eton, Oxford and the Conservative Party.

He is so ´in touch´ with we common people that he hardly even features in the Times´s Rich List - I mean, the poor man is only worth about £30 million!

The fact that he is prepared to cycle to work while his bodyguards have to ride in a sweaty Limo, prove a lot about the man!

But anyone who the Arch Skinhead, Tebbit, descibes as being like Pol-pot, and no that is not a reference to Obamas, sorry, Daves, alleged, drug taking: ¨intent on purging even the memory of Thatcherism before building a New Modern Compassionate Green Globally Aware Party¨

can´t be all bad - can he?

He also described UKIP as; "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly."

I wonder what the ¨wider Blogosphere¨ are saying about us?

Anonymous said...

Obviously I meant; is saying about us.

Oh, how standards have dropped.

And I´m a Teacher!

Never started sentences with ´and´ when I was at skool!

Anonymous said...

Remember thse hollow Russian dolls that fitted inside each other? Befre the fall of the Soviet Union a firm there produced them with the successive rulers with Gorbachov on the outside and of course when you got to the little on in the middle it was Stalin. How would this work with Cameron, jokes about hollowness aside? Would it be the leaderine in the middle, the Venerable Supermac or blessed St Winston?

I notice the last of these has been purloined by UKIP who have a photo of him alongside the slogan "say no to european union" somewhat flying in the face of the fact that he was in favour of it. Its too much to expect the poor muppets to get their heads round anything that conflicts with their oversimplified weltenshaung I suppose.

Anonymous said...

he, he, he!

looks like our ´friend´ has gone over the missing advertiser thread.

And - grrr - he thinks I´m a Teacher!

he, he, he!

Anonymous said...

Amusing that our not so learned friend was carping abut the state of our (privatised) public transport when we read today:

"Annual train punctuality has reached the 90 per cent mark for the first time since records began in 1992, Network Rail (NR) announced today.



A total of 90.6 per cent of trains ran on time in the 12 months ending in March, while the figure for April was a monthly record of 93.5 per cent.

NR's operations and customer service director Robin Gisby said: "Passengers are today experiencing the most punctual train service ever provided on Britain's railways."" (source The Indepenent)

No doubt he will credit this to their owners while problems are always portrayed as the fault of the government or had he fotgotten they are private companies. I wonder which minister he denounces when he is served a cloudy pint of bitter.

Anonymous said...

Mussilni got the trains running on time wonder what happened to him?

Anonymous said...

He had a little trouble with some leftists. Perhaps it was something he said. Surprising how many admirers he has round here to this day. Come to think of it, my grandfather was an admirer in the 1930s before it became unfashionable and even went bald in sympathy.

Anonymous said...

Aaah Benito.

Started off as a goody, then fought on our side during WW1, which, quite understandably, changed his views on things.

It escapes me as to how he got into power, but it was back in the ´20´s and initially he wanted to be friends with France.

He did quite a bit of ´quanti(ta)tive easing´, then seemed to lose it entirely - power corrupts .....

Sadly, claims that he got the trains to run on time, were a trifle exaggerated.

As I remember it, we captured him, the Germans ´rescued´ him, before the Italians killed him.

One of his Grand-Daughters is a far right Euro MP.

I wonder if she looks like Alexi Sayle?

Anonymous said...

Musso came to power in a coup in 1922, known as the March on Rome. The man himself cheated and went by train but history is silent on whether it arrived on time.

Anonymous said...

On the other hand if Musso and his entourage had been travelling on our wonderful privatised system the fares would have bankrupted the fascist party and he would be a footnote in the history books

Anonymous said...

So there he is, Big Benny, and he´s off to wrest control of his country from, uh, whoever was in control.

Along comes ....... roll on the drums ..... the ticket collector!

Cue Pythonesque moment .... hey, bloody ´ell, weeva got no teeckets! Ok, youse guys, our glorious revolution is cancelled - geeve the ´orse ´es ´ead back.

Mama, put the pasta on, your leetle Benny´s acomin ´ome!

Benny exits stage left.

Obviously said with appalling stereotypically Italian accent and much waving of hands.