SO MANY REASONS

So many reasons to despair, so many reasons to be angry; smug Tories cheering yet more restrictions on the poorest in the land; smug Tory politicians pandering to the baser instincts of the electorate; a smug Tory newspaper trying to denigrate a dead man in an attempt to smear his son.  Ironic when that paper's former owner applauded Hitler.  Then we have the Tories attempts to beatify Margaret Thatcher when they were the ones to sack her!

We truly live in a world where our leaders believe that Downton Abbey is a documentary - they still believe in a ruling elite where birthright and inherited money qualifies one for leadership.  Which is why  we have so many idiots in power; people who think that something should be so just because they think it.  The problem is that here are too few public servants left to unscramble this muddled thinking and we are the poorer for it.

Since the Tories took over (I discount the Libdems, as do most people) we have seen a steady decline in all our public services and the inability to defend our country.  I just hope that the Tories never get their wish that the NHS gets dismantled as - I really don't feel that it is safe in their hands.  I also remember of of the biggest lies in politics, "There will be no top-down reorganisation of the NHS".  I wonder who said that.   
      

 

This is, in the main, the text of an email to the Labour Party.  I expect only a bland, machine generated reply but I really am frustrated.  Things are so bad that I can see the Tories dumping Cameron and plumping (an apt word) for Boris Johnson - that's a real nightmare.

What can the Labour Party offer today to somebody who has always voted Labour?  I was a member until Ed Miliband took the Tory line over public sector workers.  I suppose that my problem with the Labour Party is its leader.  Since his appointment, there has been little in the way of opposition to this appalling government; so many opportunities lost, so many open goals not even attempted, let alone missed.  Ed has always appeared ready to accept on behalf of the Labour Party responsibility for the world’s financial ills and has continually attempted to divorce himself from the last government.  All the time wasted “Refounding” (a word not in my dictionary) Labour and nothing to show, Ed Miliband, by his low, not to say sunken, profile is largely responsible for the death of domestic politics.

It now seems that, that in an attempt to lure more middle class voters to the party, Ed and his advisers even want to deny that the Labour movement was created by the trades unions.  Is there a real Labour Party out there, somewhere, one that is not frightened to be left wing? 

I really do believe that Ed will lose us the next election and I really fear for the country under rejuvenated Tory leadership.  Is there a future for ordinary people in this country?

COMING HOME

You hear it on the News but it makes you think about it a lot more when you see an R.A.F. C-17 on finals to Birmingham International.  All the way from Helmand to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital - hope they survive.

THAT FUNERAL

I was somewhat amazed and dismayed at the news coverage of our former PM's death - it was way over the top for one of the most divisive politicians we've ever had the misfortune to suffer (until the current one).  Even Labour politicians have been told to be nice - is it some conspiracy?  What's the next step, ask the Pope to beatify her?  We must have very short memories if there is all this adulation for a woman who split the country, made us fight a war that could have been avoided was only saved by cheap oil prices.

But no!  It gets worse,we now have to pay a reported £10m for her funeral.  We cannot afford to repair schools or look after our sick and elderly but we can still manage to squeeze this enormous sum from our bare coffers for a woman who said she didn't want a funeral such as this.

Then there's the hypocrisy of the Tory party; if she was such a wonderful leader, why did they dump her with such ignominy?