I’ve been so busy these past few weeks that I haven’t had the opportunity to update about the things I want to.
I know a lot of people just let politics pass them by but this is an extraordinary time in our history with dangers and opportunities. I’ve said for ages that politics is a dirty business and that it shouldn’t surprise anyone if it attracts dirty people, but the stench inside the can of worms is truly awe inspiring. The speaker was either deliberately or misguidedly trying to protect the old way of doing things and has rightfully had to stand down. The arrogance of a man who thinks he can just say sorry to things like this and carry on regardless beggars belief.
I am deeply appalled though that the chinless wonders and inbred morons in the house think that they can offer up the speaker and carry on as if that was the end of it. The speaker was definitely part of the problem but his removal is not the solution. It was necessary to enable a solution to be forged but nothing more than that. After all he didn’t ask MPs to fiddle their expenses did he? Am I fooled? Non!
The same arrogance is evident in all parties with some demonstrating surprise that the public would be interested in their crooked attempts to feather their own nests using public money. It’s almost as if they believe that they have a god given right to whatever they want on the grounds that their peers at University are heading up multi-national companies and earning more than them. On those grounds, we the public should just accept this. If they wanted to live like a banker they should have gone into banking. Any politician who is incapable of making a moral judgement on what is and isn’t an acceptable and genuine expense associated with their job (not their lifestyle) has clearly demonstrated to me (and I suspect to any criminal psychologist) that they are equally incapable of holding office. Do I want politicians like that representing me? Non Merci!
David Cameron has called for an election but I think he has no right to offer up a change of party (which as a lifelong Labour supporter I have to say is the only likely outcome) as a solution without significant reform of our political system. His bunch of pigs had their snouts in the trough just as much and just as far as the pigs in the Labour party. I have deep distrust of Conservative politicians with their sharp suits and oily manner and so I am naturally wary. There does seem to be an attitude inside the Conservative party that they can use the fact that our politics is broken in order to get their clammy hands on the seats of power. I don’t accept this for a second as a solution. I want more. Election tomorrow? Non Merci!
If Cameron was offering a genuine and radical reform to separate the legislative from the executive and to make the entire system democratic akin to American politics I would be sorely tempted to support him, albeit with trepidation. We are the mother of all parliaments, and it is ours not the politicians. If any of them feel anything other than shame, they should immediately hurl themselves from Tower bridge on the end of a ten foot rope tied to their necks. Maybe then I might believe that a shred of honour and decency exists within them. We deserve and demand better. Will I be fobbed off with half solutions? Non Merci!
Cameron is not offering real reform though. His solution is to say that he will be trustworthy and therefore we should all sleep well at night. Oh and he is going to create another expenses system published on the Internet and subject to review. Well that’s alright then isn’t it? Actually no. What is to stop a duck house being suddenly written up as a much needed item of office furniture? Where is the call for a democratically elected House of Lords? Where is the recognition that a prime minister and cabinet should be working with parliament rather than the current method of using the Whips to bully through legislation based on a majority that means the Cabinet can do whatever they like. The only impediment being if the Lords don’t chuck a spanner in the works or whole scale riots in the streets. Non Merci!
It does seem odd to me that in a modern age the only real obstacle to government is an unelected body containing buyable crooks or widespread civil disorder. We should have come up with something better than that by now and this is the golden opportunity to do something about it. Instead we continue to see partisan sniping by the various parties. It truly is time to see them all go and an end to the concept of a ‘professional politician’. I can’t help but agree with Shakespeare in his very deep dislike of the word ‘politician’ which he uses as an insult. Politics should never be a career choice motivated by money, it should be an irresistible vocation fed and driven by principal (whether it is of the right or the left is irrelevant). They should be servants of the people not a class above. Besides if you do your job well and rise to the dizzying heights of power then you can pretty much guarantee yourself a multi million pound book deal and a permanent career on the after dinner speaking circuit so your long term future is assured once you step down.
So where else can we look for the leadership and guidance we need? If we had a Charles II then maybe we could find it in the monarch, but not a sound can be heard emanating from the Mall. That only really leaves Plan B which is for a Cromwell to step forward and offer real reform, but he too is missing. In his place is the same bunch of crooks who are now clambering to offer more of the same, just with different school crests on their ties. Non merci
These are extremely dangerous times and for all that I look at the current government with shame and disgust I can’t help feeling that having politicians who do understand economics and are prepared to learn the lessons of the last century are preferable to those who will simply place the dice in the hands of the market and let them fall where they may, whatever the consequences. That is really the point. The world sits on a precarious knife edge and the fabric of society is at stake. You and I deserve a government which is equipped with the intelligence tenacity, knowledge and dedication to steer us through. I will not accept internal or external snipes from my government whilst personal gain and plausible deniability is the primary goal.
The French say it so well, with punched consonants and rounded vowels.
Non merci, Non merci, Non Merci!