Well, the first televised debate by the three party leaders is done and dusted: now all the hoopla and self-congratulation dies down what exactly did this tell us about Cameron, Brown and Clegg: and more critically, their “Policies”
In my book it’s simple! Despite wordy manifestos and skads of hot air plus naturally, soupçon of self-justification from Cameron and more particularly Brown, none of them actually have any real policies!
The debate, if one could possibly by any stretch of a fevered imagination dignify the anodyne proceedings with such a title, kicked off, sort of, with a discussion about the thorny topic they all danced around and avoided as best they might: immigration.
Not one dared to face facts: neither Cameron nor Clegg had the brass ones to bring up Andrew Neather’s whistle blowing revelation about Zanulab’s heinous, and covert social engineering policy; allowing unfettered immigration to try and actualise their Ivory Tower dream of a multicultural society, whatever that really is.
Now personally, I would have placed Brown right on the spot, right then.
Furthermore, Brown then had the sheer temerity and brass neck to state that employers of illegal migrants would face the full force of criminal law: nice idea.
So what about Baroness Scotland, who employed an illegal migrant as her cleaner?
Is she going to be banged up? I wish!
Now the next aspect was they all stated they wanted continuing immigration: huh? Why? Skills shortages was the next convenient soundbite: what bloody skills shortages?
OK: I’ll accept the odd comms satellite designer and engineer, since this is one area in which Britain could earn huge export profits from: could, you understand; note the caveat!
Personally, I think we already have sufficient Kebab houses and curry palaces.
In the past few weeks we have learned that a Nigerian born “Doctor” working for a locum agency killed a patient by incorrect prescription: and another foreigner almost killed a little girl by faulty diagnosis and again wrong prescription. These are “Skills” Britain can easily do without, thank you.
Then we turned to the next can of worms: crime and criminality.
As expected, the three bumbling protagonists issued forth with empty political rhetoric and the next series of hollow soundbites.
Don’t know about you, but I’m tired to the point of vomiting by this useless tactic: since Willie Whitelaw became Thatcher’s first Home Secretary in 1979 and echoed the useless phrase “Short sharp shock” to Blair’s equally facile “Tough on crime! Tough on the cause of crime!”
Brown, naturally, was going to put 3,000 more police on the streets: Cameron was going to bang up more: Cleggie, as might be expected, since after, he represents the tree huggers, bunny cuddlers and general apologists for all social psychopathic scum, was going to give ‘em a hug and make them face their victims and apologise.
Yadder, yadder, yadder.
It’s very simple guys! I’ll explain it to you.
Discipline starts in the home: and next in schools: the types of social misfits currently plaguing British society have been created by left wing nonsense and political correctness. Teachers, generally tend to be lefties: and years back, ran away from their continuing responsibilities in demanding the ability to exercise significant and tenable sanctions over kids.
They all wanted more coppers on the streets: yeah; that’ll solve the problem.
Not.
Because simply, even when and where police detain miscreants, the courts deal so leniently with them, the kids sneer in utter and understandable contempt. Magistrates (JPs) are there now mainly, as an exercise in ego.
If not, then why, years back didn’t they all resign as their role was made pointless and they lost the battle?
Time after time, young thugs are “punished” by community service orders and the rest: and fines. Then they don ‘t pay the fines and are fined again: and again: and again: mainly, since they cannot pay them ‘cos they are unemployed dossers, living and sponging off the state: and your and my taxes.
And the fines are mainly written off: so what really is the point?
Brown had the unmitigated gall to finally state “Violent crime is falling!”
Really? Could have fooled me.
Last weekend in London five young men were killed: an innocent young woman was shot in the neck by a kid on a push bike, as she waited for a burger. A gang in South London, desperate for notoriety, calling themselves the Black Mafia, (Now, there’s a wee clue in the gang’s name………..), burst into a house, smashing down the front door and gatecrashed an 18th birthday party: and cut the throat of a young man as they fled.
London’s Metropolitan police authority established Operation Trident: to counter Black on Black crime. So, clearly it aint starlings running around London tooled up with shooters turning the suburbs into an urban equivalent of the OK Corral then.
Society is totally out of control: kids learn quickly how far they can push the envelope on bad behaviour: be it at school, on estates, on the streets wherever.
Urgently needed is not more empty words and pointless promises: it’s an acceptance by Government that instead of using the kid glove approach everyone in our society has to learn they must abide by certain core rules and social disciplines: and if they fail, then authority is going to fall on them like a ton of bricks!
And all politicians since Thatcher have done is adopt the new Wave Political expedient “Solution”: problem? Then we’ll pass a new law.
Why bother? Why not firstly, invoke and apply existing laws?
Example: binge drinking and subsequent anti-social behaviour in city centres wastes hundreds of millions every year in policing costs, emergency services and the rest.
Well, it’s been a public order offence to be drunk in a public place since time immemorial: it has also been a criminal offence for licensed premises (Pubs, hotels clubs bars etc) to sell alcohol to a person who is clearly already drunk. And the licensee of those premises can and should lose their license.
Problem solved.
Call Me Dave wants to start a watered down form of idealised National Service: trouble is it would not be compulsory.
And simply, it has to be: those who don’t want to share in society’s benefits and rather wish to cause anxiety, stress and loss to others need to be deprived of their freedom: and compelled to work, hard, with no treats, no fags, no TV until and unless they have learned the error of their ways. Then they might respect the core institution of their host society.
Above all, however, they must be deprived of their freedom: and isolated away from honest law abiding society: until and unless they change.
Cameron also wants many more prisons: nice concept Dave. Where’s the money coming from? We’re broke!
The absorbing subject of MP’s expenses came next: Cleggie, naturally, tried to seize the moral high ground, stoutly maintaining no LibDem MP’s had erred.
The Telegraph must have had it wrong then!
MPs’ expenses: Andrew George claimed for £308,000 flat used by daughter as ‘bolt hole’
Andrew George, a Liberal Democrat MP, is facing questions about his parliamentary expenses claims for a £300,000 London flat used by his student daughter while several of his party colleagues are under similar scrutiny.
It went on:
* Sir Menzies Campbell, the former leader, hired an interior designer to refurbish his flat in central London, spending nearly £10,000 of taxpayers’ money on scatter cushions, a king-sized bed and a flat screen television.
* Chris Huhne, the party’s home affairs spokesman, claimed for a £119 trouser press that was delivered to his main home rather than his designated second address. He has agreed to pay back the money. He also claimed for fluffy dusters and the upkeep of his “pergola cross beam”.
* Lembit Opik, the high-profile housing spokesman, charged taxpayers for a £40 court summons he received for the non-payment of his council tax. He will refund it.
* Julia Goldsworthy, the Treasury spokesman, bought a leather rocking chair from Heal’s as she spent thousands of pounds just days before the deadline for using the second homes allowance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5315055/MPs-expenses-Liberal-Democrat-claims-for-308000-flat-used-by-daughter-as-bolt-hole.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/liberal-democrat-mps-expenses/
Thereafter as might be expected, both Call Me Dave and Brown prevaricated and huffed and hurumphed about how they were going to clamp down and how wrong it all was. No apologies: no excuses no sorries, naturally.
Brown, our current glorious leader then waxed lyrical about how he and his misbegotten bunch of slavering incompetents were going to reform politics: sweeping changes to British political constitution: with a referendum of the public before they went ahead: yeah, right: that the one on the European Constitution, AKA Lisbon Treaty?
The one we were promised which never happened?
They then moved to education: and waffled interminably.
No plans; no strategies: no raison d’etre: and no explanation of why, if Zanulab’s throwing bundles of cash at education has been so very successful for 13 years, then why is it so many school leavers are either unemployed, following full time “Education” studying pointless and worthless degress is such hugely critical academic disciplines as Tourism and Leisure, Media Studies and even, I kid you not, degrees in Surfing! Or simply, and more critically, unemployable.
“SURFING
Cornwall College and Plymouth University make use of their locations near the surfing Mecca of the English south-west to offer courses in the sport. “
Really, you couldn’t make it up! Unless you were Salvador Dali, the morning after a day spent drinking bottle after bottle of Absinthe.
No mention, of course, of the fundamental lack of discipline which now infests a majority of schools: no mention, naturally, of how and why excess immigration in major city centres has destroyed education, as teachers cannot teach as such, when faced by kids who present with fifteen different languages!
It is therefore no wonder so many children when facing secondary school, are unfit, educationally, to face and handle the more demanding curriculum: mainly, since it does help to be able to read, write and count, first!
Finally the major topic of the economy and the budget deficit came up: it had to sooner or later.
And this was the very best illustration of why none of these clowns is fit to manage the dire economic and fiscal problems Britain now faces.
Brown and Cameron spent most of the time trying to score party political points over the National Insurance hike proposed and defended by Brown and criticised by Cameron. The amount of £ 6billion was batted backwards and forwards, repeatedly.
Let’s put this firmly into context.
From figures published February 18th 2010, UK public sector net debt was £848.5 billion. (or 59.9% of National GDP) – Source: Office National Statistics.
Bad enough: however then The PSBR (Public Sector Borrowing Requirement) forecast for 2009/10 is for net borrowing of £178 billion or 12.6% of GDP.
The present forecast Budget Deficit is in excess of £200 billion: or some 18% of GDP!
Yet Brown and Cameron talk as nothing much is wrong: except, of course, government is spending far too much money it doesn’t actually have!
Yet amongst these realities, Call Me Dave and Brown argued over a measly unimportant £6 billion.
Now, according to Brown’s statement, he seems to believe “The economy is the government!”
What?
When I studied economics, I learned that industry, commerce and people actually doing things and making money was the economy: and the greedy government hived off some of this profit and people’s earnings to pay the cost of essential services.
Not anymore it seems: nice Mr Brown will provide us all with well paid jobs, working for him! Which would be guaranteed to destroy the vestiges of the remaining economy faster than a speeding bullet!
The net result was simple: not one of these misfits had one single cohesive cogent policy for Britain’s economic future.
As the debate was winding down Afghanistan was touched on: once again, it was crystal clear there was no vision; no strategy and not one of them prepared to unequivocally state why British soldiers were fighting there anyway.
Brown, naturally took the opportunity to extol his virtues on supporting “Our brave men and women…”: neatly seeming to forget the dire mess the War Department is in and the vast sums they have been wasting through incompetence.
A question from the audience on care and health for older people, as the questioner was concerned about facing his own retirement, led Dave to state firmly how the Tories would ensure no one was compelled to sell their home to fund the costs of care home residence: Dave, of course, forgot to remember how it was Thatcher who forced local authorities to close and sell off their care homes and opened this up her favourite free market. Which allowed such unconscionable and venal rip off merchants like Duncan Ballatyne to build his fortune from care homes. What precisely an ice cream van salesman knows about geriatric health care could be written on the back of a postage stamp.
Thus we have in essence, Dave wanting to go back over old ground and put right past excesses and inequitable moves of the Tories: Brown wanting be allowed another shot at finishing ruing just about everything: and Cleggie wanting everyone to love him, so that he could hand over the keys of state of Britain to the faceless bureaucrats of Europe, allow continued uncontrolled immigration and set increasing numbers of violent prisoners free.
Clearly, not one of them or their parties has a remote clue.
We must all proselytise as many voters as possible before the election, if we really want to save what is left of Britain and turn it back to what it on ce was: and so very proud to be.
We’ve granted, by voting, stewardship and custodianship of this once precious and matchless land to professional politicians for many years: and in thanks, they have enriched themselves and destroyed the proud heritage which once was England; they are to a man and woman traitors to the cause and should be made to suffer righteous penalty.
Worth reminding ourselves, perhaps of the Bard’s words:
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,–
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
Charles Hinchcliffe
April 2010
