Enough - no more!

"There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe"

Those words, reputedly said by Gordon Brown to Tony Blair, have become so true when applied to political utterances by any politician regardless of party. That assertion is summed up in a 'to the point' post from CallingEngland, one she entitles "What a mess".

"We're paying them to do a job they don't do. They've handed control to those who are not elected and who sit in a profligate & authoritarian Parliament two hundred miles away. Politics is corrupt."

We are continually informed by the political elite that "only they know best"; that what they do is for our own good. If they know so much then how come Clegg requires five special advisers and takes over £1million pounds of public money to do something that he considers himself qualified - and therefore presumably capable - to do?

We are informed by Keith Vaz that there is a 'major crime problem' within the Palace of Westminster - to which I have to ask just what does he expect when 600+ fraudsters congregate together?

Raedwald posts on yet another political promise that has been binned, one that leaves our Coalition in a bit of a 'pickle' - not for the first time, either.

Autonomous Mind posts on abuse of the law by politicians and the police and asks just how much longer will the public stay silent while their so-called freedoms are curtailed further, stating that 'we' have to make a stand. Well, perhaps the need to make a stand has already begun with Richard North posting about the residents of Achany have managed to get a 23 turbine wind farm shut down due to the excessive noise - a noise I seem to recall we were told was non-existent, or negligible.

The story 'du jour' is about the Balls/Brown/MilibandE 'assassination attempt' on Blair, from which we learn that the Treasury urged Brown to freeze real state spending in 2006 - a request Brown ignored, instead spending yet more money, a policy with which the Tories were in agreement although we don't hear too much about that! One question on this affair that is intriguing is that if our politicians maintain they are not corrupt and are incorruptible, then why did Blair not sack Brown and his coterie of trouble-makers? Just what 'hold' did they have on Blair?

This morning I spotted a tweet by Julian Huppert who informed the world that he was off to attend the Liberal Democrat Federal Policy Committee. When I replied querying the word 'Federal' his response was that the Liberal Democrats are a Federal Party: England, Scotland and Wales. My response to that was that the Liberal Democrats were a party wedded to a Federal European superstate and that he and the LabCon should all hang their heads in shame. Needless to say Julian Huppert has been 'silent' since!

When considering all the foregoing it must become obvious that this state of affairs - a self-serving, venal and untrustworthy political elite, coupled with a bureaucracy that at times appears to have an agenda all their own - cannot continue. The time has surely come whereby the people demand and get small government with a large dose of "Referism", or they implement it themselves - with the resultant 'casualities of war' adorning lamp posts!


Update: A commenter on a previous post has quoted Chris Whalen, a US banking analyst, who put it succinctly with his recent comment "If we don't have consequences in politics then we end up with what we've seen in the last 30 years, which is a permanent political class.". Unless we hold the political elite to account, we will indeed be enslaved for eternity.