Friday 25 January 2013

Cameron World

It is hard to conceive of a worse government than the current Coalition. Even if you accept the austerity crusade, as even the Labour opposition seems to do, the enactment of these policies is grossly incompetent and destructively unfair. Cameron may utter a few bleats about tax dodgers or Starbucks - but the possibility that the deficit is at least in part a consequence of revenue collection deficiencies and not the activities of 'skivers' seems to be taboo. The herd follow the old Thatcherist line about the national economy being equivalent to a purse or personal bank account that has become over drawn. Any decent economist will tell you that is nonsense. This year, the British economy will almost certainly plunge into another recession - the dreaded triple dip - and lose the AAA rating that has so far held down the cost of debt repayment. The fact is that the ship of fools that has washed up on the government front bench are over privileged incompetents who couldn't organise a piss up in a winery. The Coalition governs on behalf of tax dodging oligarchs and idiotic not very nice and very dim back benchers wouldn't know what genuine prosperity was if someone slapped Osbourne's chops with it. They care only for their own fortunes and those of the caravanserai of moneyed fools who now lord it over our football clubs. It's a disgrace. Instead of governing, Cameron spends no wastes his time scrapping with the dim wits of the Conservative burrows who like that paragon of grinning idiocy Nigel Farage spend their waking hours whinging about Europe and Brussels. It's hard to conceive of a more destructive waste of time than arguing about the EU and demanding special privileges from Angela Merkel. The state of the nation two years hence will be the stuff of nightmares.