Trivial is the default mode of British politics, so says Simon Jenkin this morning. Yes it is that darned speeding ticket that Suella Braverman has picked up some time ago. I got one years ago, doing something like 34 mph down a hill with a conveniently placed camera at the bottom. It's the way councils make money, I just took the three points and paid up, refusing to be told how to drive;) Couldn't she have done the same?
I try to keep off politics, but when Farage and Mogg turn tail on Brexit, then blame others for the mess we are in now, red flashes across the sky and I question 'why' do we elect idiots to be our political spokespeople.
There is no answer to that question the human race never learns and only votes for its own salvation.
What makes me so cross is that Farage sat in the European Parliament took his not inconsiderable salary and helped take us out of one our most profitable markets all in the name of nationalism and now we struggle to sell ourselves in any market. He is an ingrate, well deserving of a second rate job in Radio GB.
Waiting for the new computer to arrive, it will be with me by the end of the day - brilliant timing, hope it doesn't mean staying awake till midnight.
I can't see what SB did wrong other than asking too persistently for a private speed awareness course. Her position makes it unreasonable to go on a public one. I think we are seeing a discreditation exercise. Speeding is so easily done in moments of minor inattention. The awareness course is actually very good if engaged with properly, but most politicians would only go through the motions.
ReplyDeleteMoral judgement over petty crimes. In fact it is not even a crime, and definitely not newsworthy. There is so much more to fill the news with as well, the G7 summit, climate change and science, in fact what is really happening round the rest of the world. I don't like SB but persecution is a cruel, stupid game.
ReplyDeleteNowhere in the Government does there seem to be a single person with any kind of what my mother would have called 'stature'. I voted Remain over the Brexit issue - and I still wish to be seen as a European rather than British - mainly because I can't think of a single thing we have to be proud of now.
ReplyDeleteI so agree with this, Jan Bx
DeleteI to much prefer to belong to a larger culture Pat, we were taken down a road of false promises and empty words. Johnson has a lot to answer for but he is stuffing his bank account on the talk circuit at the moment.
ReplyDeleteWe expect these people to make really important decisions - world changing ones - and they cannot even manage a simple speeding fine graciously. The humour of it is swamped by the seriousness.
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Deletearguing the merits Tom does take time though. As Pat says there is no one of 'stature' in any of the parties.
I have often thought that there should be a minimum age and experience requirement to stand for Parliament. Too many are just party apparatchiks that have never done a days real work in their lives, at least the old class of Labour MP came up through the union route having spent some part of their lives in real work, and at least some of the Conservative MPs had experience running businesses.
ReplyDeleteInteresting figures yesterday about those standing down in the next election. Labour MPs around 70 years on average and conservatives around 50ish. So if you believe in statistics, the conservatives are not seeing a bright future ahead, that is obviously after the next election when they should get the push.
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