We are informed today that the world is on the brink of an economic precipice, that the elderly in our society are to be condemned to a life of anxiety and that MPs need to change their job description.
Who has brought the world to an economic precipice, following an adherence to an uneconomic energy policy and lack of financial acumen? Who has placed the elderly in the position they are by pursuing aid policies, wars and the aforementioned energy policy to the extent there is insufficient money to afford the level of care that the elderly are entitled? Who is it that has allowed what they consider to be their duties and their behaviour to dengenerate to such an extent that they are now despised?
It is all very well for Cameron to talk about leadership, but where was he when Brown and the Labour Party were in the process of wrecking our economy? Was not Cameron one of those politicians that famously stated that he would follow Labours spending plans? Likewise money spent on foreign aid, wars that are not really our concern, membership of an organisation that is not to the benefit of our country, at the expense of welfare for our own people does not show leadership. Frank Field may well have the best of intentions, but his motives tend to make one think that they are more of a self-preservation nature, more of a cementation of career.
If the best endeavours of politicians haven't worked then perhaps it is time that they butted out of people's lives and ceased attempting to micro-manage them. What Field's article shows is that even he still cannot stop the interfering culture for which politicians are renowned. Fifteen-year-olds should not be thinking about parenting - and who put the idea into their heads anyway? The minute a politician informs me that he/she is intent on supporting parents, from pregnancy to the age five, in the rearing of their children is the minute I sense yet more political control.
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As a nation we have been generally well-behaved over the centuries. In 1848 we were one of the few countries not to revolt against our rulers and in 1914 and 1939 we obediently sent our young men to die in foreign fields. We have always worked hard and paid our taxes. What have successive governments done for us in return?
They have given away our independence to Brussels, allowed our country to be flooded with immigrants, destroyed the best education system in the world and given us the most expensive transport, energy and public services in Europe. I could go on; but suffice to say that when I see the likes of Cameron, Clegg and Huhne deciding how our money should be spent (foreign aid, EU fees, foreign bail-outs and wind farm subsidies instead of looking after our elderly citizens) then I think we have reached the very pits of national government and that the need to remove them is becoming imperative. But how?
When Constitution (5)- to appear this weekend - becomes our political system?
Who has brought the world to an economic precipice, following an adherence to an uneconomic energy policy and lack of financial acumen? Who has placed the elderly in the position they are by pursuing aid policies, wars and the aforementioned energy policy to the extent there is insufficient money to afford the level of care that the elderly are entitled? Who is it that has allowed what they consider to be their duties and their behaviour to dengenerate to such an extent that they are now despised?
Them, Them. Let me name one - Davignon. Let me name another - Trichet. Let me name another - Jamie Dimon.
But of course it needs the zombies beneath as well - Osborne, Clegg, Red Ed.
In 1848 we were one of the few countries not to revolt against our rulers
Really ? and the Chartist Riots were not violent in Halifax, Bradford etc ?
Your history is a bit Disneyfied. The country used a Militia to suppress unrest. Look at what year Bradford got Chartered Borough status and why !
JH: Fair point.....
TT: Much appreciate your historical input on every occasion. My historical knowledge is not that detailed - I think I have learned more since you began commenting than I did at school :)
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