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May 26, 2006
Changing feet ......
So our wonderful new Home Secretary has tried to be open and honest with Parliament, and now must face an interesting barrage of new questions. Firstly he admitted that the central Department of the Government, the one that handles Nationality, Immigration, Justice, Police, Passports and just about everything to do with the day to day running of the very heart of Government is a shambles, mismanaged, lacking leadership and direction, not "fit for purpose" and incompetentence is endemic. What has he done about it? Nothing, not one of the incompetents in the department has been sacked, not one has been demoted and there certainly don't seem to be any plans to do so either!
They still don't know how many criminals are simply walking out of the Open Prisons they should never have been in in the first place and we still have no idea of how many dangerous illegal immigrant criminals have been released "into the community" and are wandering about unsupervised and under no threat of deportation because their home countries would have no qualms about hanging them or throwing them into a prison and losing the keys - something our Liberal Extremist Legal gravytrain would not countenance! The list of debacles in this one government department grows daily and it makes one wonder just what is happening inside other Ministries that we have not yet discovered! Mind you, we can make an educated guess from the announcement today that the "Company" Blair's minions set up to replace the one they stole from the shareholders, Railtrack, is running uyp a debt for the last financial year of £450 million. But that's alright because this year they plan to make a profit of £20 million - because they are to get a subsidy from the taxpayers of some £900 million to 'help' them turn the company around. I wonder what would have happened if the Rover Car Company had been given the same sort of handout. They didn't, and perhaps it was because Blair realised he couldn't get away with stealing another group of shareholders money.
Then, in the midst of all this disaster for the government, they announce that they have a wonderful plan to restore the link between earnings and pensions - but not until 2012 and then it may not happen because dear old cuddly Gordon has gone and added "if the economy can afford too". In other words;
"don't hold your breathe you stupid old git pensioners, because once you've voted me back into power, you can forget the pensions reform for another five years by which time you're all dead anyway!"
Nothing like a little bit of having to face the emptiness of all the 'spin' to make a politician sweat, and dear old Tone is sweating now. I guess he's feeling the knives hidden in the Toga's around him and wondering who Brutus will turn out to be. Well, he and his entire damned party cannot get their comeuppance soon enough for me! The trouble is, there's almost no hope that the Civil Service will get what it deserves - and that is the real pity!
Posted by The Gray Monk at May 26, 2006 07:47 PM
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I really like this new tactic of honesty from a government minister - because it's backfiring on him! He's damned whatever he does. Don't forget that this Stalinist Thug has been in charge of several ministries. Are they better as a result? Answers on a postage stamp please...I also believe that a major turning point has been reached; where no amount of spin, obfuscation or lies can rescue this doomed lot. The British public have been taken for fools for too long now, and the polls back that up. What a pity this fiasco wasn't evident last May!
Posted by: Slim Jim at May 26, 2006 11:06 AM