Sorry. I was hoping it would take a bit longer for Mister Angry to re-appear, but after listening to so much total bovine excrement, he is back with a vengeance.
It started yesterday, well before the afternoon’s Autumn Death Nell. Dear old IDS (I’m Ducking Sideways ), you remember him – the resigner on principle because of government attacks on social support provision – pontificating about how the latest statement from the Chancellor was heading in the right direction.
And the major difference? A reduction of 3 pence in the pound from what was being cut from support payments. Oh, and a lower than expected minimum wage.
Turning the vast swathes of people in this country who are struggling into a confectionary acronym is not the best way to live up to those promises made such a short time ago. Calling them ‘JAMs’ really doesn’t help, when many will now not be able to afford any, even Tesco’s own brand!
And yet those at the top emerge, yet again, with no pain, and plenty of gain.
And the excuse? Uncertainty.
Now why would that be? Perchance because your previous twonk of a leader decided that keeping truculent party members happy was more important than the future of the UK, and the lives of ‘ordinary people’.
And, even though you didn’t agree with the choice, you do not have the gumption to deny the undemocratic nature of the course now being followed.
Any other excuses? Yes, an inherited budget deficit.
That would be the one resulting from the measures put in place, approved of by yourselves, to defend the country against the catastrophe of the banking crisis. And fast becoming an embarrassingly old excuse.
But wait. There was good news too. Spending on large-scale infrastructure projects to stimulate the economy. Which is somehow fundamentally different from exactly the same plan proposed by the Labour Party, and described as utter madness by your good selves.
Oh yes, one more thing. The target of moving from deficit to “ain’t we loaded” has been moved. To somewhere just over the horizon. Of Saturn. Or was it Jupiter.
Interesting that repeatedly not achieving a stated target is still not a failure, because it’s still not your fault. But it never dawns in those blinkered and self-serving brains that it may just be the wrong way to do it.
That too many people have suffered, are suffering, and will continue to do so, until ….. whenever.
To go back to an old and ongoing moan, if this is a democratic country, and you believe in democracy, then how about a democracy for all, rather than your blighted vision of a hierarchy and gun-fodder.
A definition of stupidity: to keep doing the same thing, even when it’s repeatedly proved not to work.
Angry is back. What else is there? Inclusivity, common sense, compassion are nowhere to be seen in the corridors of power.
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