On the BBC is Bliar handing over to Brown. They have expensive outdoor camera crews all over London filming Jaguar cars and people going off for lunch at the Treasury.
And in the real world, quite a lot of the people who put Bliar and Brown into power are baling out their homes, and wondering why they were built on flood plains while flood protection plans are being postponed and underfunded. Blunkett was interviewed, but wasn’t even asked about how things are going in Sheffield.
I am glad to see the back of Bliar, but I can’t see that Brown is an improvement. This is the man who has masterminded the accumulation of the huge debts which have helped bolster Bliar’s Government by promoting a false feeling of wellbeing, and who stood quietly in the background when Bliar started his adventure in Iraq. I don’t get why he has been granted a reputation for prudence and if he had the principles the BBC say then he would have resigned along with Robin Cook.
I think we just have another Bliar, just as ugly on the inside, but a bit uglier on the outside.
So how come I am listening to “impartial” BBC personnel chattering on and on about how everything is so much better than 10 years ago? How the public services are so much better, how we are so much better off?
The thing that worries me is this largely unelected cabinet he’s planning – bringing in all sort of ministers who are basically businessmen with vested interests, and not even pretending to be politicians.
It’s like, they’ve done such a good job of dumbing us down and selling the democracy con to us that they don’t even have to go through the motions any more. They know we won’t bother trying to stop them. Most people won’t even notice, or wonder about it.
What baffles me is that the opposition seem to just roll over for it.
They never seem to question any of the beautifully spun BS.
I couldn’t believe Cameron cheerleading for Bliar in the House Of Commons today.
Yes, cos they’re all on the same side really, aren’t they? It’s just a pantomime IMO, especially the House of Commons.
Clare Short (of whom it has to be said, I am no fan), summed it up nicely in her resignation letter.
Yes, good letter. I don’t always agree with Clare Short but I certainly respect her integrity.