MPs’ inaction altogether not good enough
THERE are times I feel like that boy in The Emperor’s New Clothes.
“Isn’t it ohhh! Isn’t it ahhh! Isn’t it absolutely wheee,,,” but it isn’t is it?
The Labour Party have spent every waking hour gainsaying everything the Tories have done without a single idea of their own while the Conservatives fight each other in a disgraceful display of backstabbing.
Meanwhile a war rages in the Ukraine that shows every sign of spreading into nearby countries as President Putin attempts to recreate the old Soviet Union.
With hyperinflation, food shortages and dire predictions of energy bills topping £6,000 per year for the average household unions that have laid dormant for decades are frothing at the mouth as strikes spread across the land reversing what little we regained following the pandemic.
For the past two months politicians of all shades and sizes have been obsessed by who is to become our next Prime Minister oblivious of the urgent need to form a policy that helps families cope over the coming winter.
“Well the court convened, and you never saw in your life as many people as were at that court.
“All the ambassadors, the dukes, the earls, the counts, it was just crowded with people, and they were all told about the magic new strategy.
“And after they were told they naturally didn’t want to appear fools and they said, “Isn’t it ohhh! Isn’t it ahhh! Isn’t it absolutely wheee.”
But it’s far from wheee because there is no strategy.
While families wait anxiously for leadership the house of Westminster reverberates with gossip, infighting and scandal.
When this winter turns out to be one of strikes, protest and general unrest unlike the pandemic MPs will have brought this on themselves with their total lack of action to help the people they purport to serve.
We are told freezing energy bills until the end of April is ‘too expensive’ with an estimated cost of £30bn but our Government spent £32bn on a Test and Trace system that proved to be worthless.
The Government plan to spend a further £110bn on HS2 which will benefit no one other than business executives on expenses, wealthy individuals, celebrities and yes, you’ve guessed it…politicians.
Do you really think this outrageous vanity project will benefit you?
HS2 will be used by the same people who flew on Concorde and the rest of us will just watch as it hurtles by.
We simply cannot afford this.
Events have overtaken HS2 like the Internet overtook the Royal Mail.
In a list of priorities, I doubt HS2 would be in the top ten of any family in the country.
Let it go and deal with the big issues of the day not a white elephant from yesterday.
Just think about the help that could be provided by modernising our current rail system and freeing up some of that £110bn to fight the energy crisis.
MP’s are not just fiddling while Rome burns they are fiddling while stoking the fire of rebellion.
Union leaders won’t have any option but to call strikes
when their members see utility managers getting huge bonuses for failure and CEO’s taking a 32 per cent increase in salary while offering the workers 3 per cent as the Communication Workers witnessed.
Where are our conviction politicians with the fire and determination to guide us through this desperate situation?
If they are out there Lizzie and Rishi are certainly not among them.
What I do see is a gaggle of selfserving individuals more concerned with clawing their way up the political ladder than fighting for us.
Nye Bevans said “I started my political life with no clearly formed personal ambition as to what I wanted to be, or where I wanted to go.
“I leave that nonsense to the writers of romantic biographies.
“I do not represent the big bosses at the top. I represent
the people at the bottom, the individual men and women …”
Nye Bevan was a major player in creating the NHS which benefitted millions not a handful of wealthy individuals demanding a train service of their own.
At the time of writing I have no knowledge who might be the next Prime Minister and by the time they come to office it may be too late. Strikes are being announced daily and it’s the political void and total lack of any meaningful leadership that is fuelling the fire.
You only have to listen to prime Ministers Question time to witness the pathetic childish prattle to understand just how out of touch our MPs are.
Donald Trump did not become President because people thought he was a political genius.
He came to power because he wasn’t part of the Establishment voters had come to detest.
Millions of hard working Americans saw big business and the political elite rewarding themselves for failure while asking workers to make the sacrifice.
The new Prime Minister is going to need more than a new suit of clothes.
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