SORRY

I must start with a confession - I was a public servant.  As such, I now realise that I am responsible for all the financial woes the country now suffers.  Yes, I have a Local government pension and, yes, I also have a state pension. So there it is - I, and many others are solely to blame for all the cuts we are now facing, so all I can do, after nearly fifty years of working my socks off (it would have been a bit longer if a certain school hadn't decided that I was too old) is apologise.

All over the country there must be millions of people like me who have suddenly realised that we are personally to blame for all this.  There we were, working away and thinking that we were actually doing some good for the community but all the while we we were ruining the economy.  In our foolish, childlike way, we had assumed that the crisis had been caused by greedy bankers making highly dubious decisions while lining their own pockets.  How naive.

My wife has suggested that it was, in fact, the fault of those making money and bad decisions.  But that can't be right, after all, our Prime Minister has told us that the Public Sector has dragged the country down, and the newspapers have confirmed so it must be true, mustn't it?

I do begin to have my doubts, though.  The fact that our P.M. has advocated a no fly zone over Libya having slashed the R.A.F. to such an extent that it can't even defend our own airspace and the Royal Navy will soon be reduced to operating a couple of punts and a pedalo, leads me to suspect that he doesn't have a total grasp of the realities of government.

Our well-heeled cabinet my well be vindictive; they may well feel that the country is populated by benefits scroungers; they may truly believe that only the rich have a right to rule, but the impression they give is that they just don't care about the things that matter to most of us and, dare I say, they are beginning to appear less than competent at the art of government.  So, come on Dave, do something to prove me wrong, or, at the very least, make a decision while taking into account the law of unforeseen consequences.