Has the whole country gone to sleep? That's got to be the only answer if we're to believe this week's polls. Gorden Brown is a sanctimonious totalitarian hell bent on telling everyone in the country how to live their lives. He wants everyone dependent on the State and thanking him personally for his generous salaries and hand-outs paid for by a shrinking over-burdened working population. If you're not gracious then you'll be off to prison... except that they're overflowing so you'll be out sooner than expected. It's so typical of this Government: there's no joined-up thinking; just headline grabbing.
And what happens this week? We learn that Brown's conference speech is a rehash of speeches from Al Gore and others. It's all so manufactured and dressed up. Brown is mutton dressed as lamb.
Wake up! Everything this Government touches turns to shit. Never mind the billions of pounds have been wasted on unwieldy, poorly specified computer projects, what about billions of pounds spent on schools for no improvement in education standards. The A-Level is now a completely worthless joke fast being replaced by other international qualifications and University entrance exams. How did this happen? An obsession with massaging the numbers and chasing statistics. If we can't improve education, we'll dumb down the exam; we'll lower the bar so that more can jump over it.
Billions of pounds have been spent on the NHS yet there's more people than ever dying of infections due to poor cleaning standards. And don't blame privatisation; here's a fact: at the end of the period for gathering stats, one health authority I know of outsourced it's waiting list for a particular routine operation and in 2 weeks the mobile, private operating theater did as many operations as the hospital had done in a year. It's not about money, it's about efficiency.
Please everyone stop being fooled by Brown and his crony Government. Brown's idea of "listening" is to surround himself by lesser mortals than he so that he can "listen" and ignore without any fighting. Blair was a deceitful fake but Brown is far, far worse and a bully to boot.
<deep breath......>
Ok, I'm chilled now :) Just want to sign-off with the news that we're following through on our threat to leave the country if Brown should ever be crowned Prime Minister: we're off to San Francisco and hope to be on the ground before Xmas. Good luck to anyone who has the stomach to eat more of Brown's shit. Hopefully when we come back home a new Government will be in office... better still a slimmed down, less costly Government and fewer quangos... yeah I know, that's just a dream ;)
