There’s no going back, is there?
It's too late!
There are dozens of aphorisms of this nature, most of the entirely unsuitable for this gentle blog, which indicate that once something has happened, it’s pretty much impossible to undo. And while I was taking my daily constitutional, I was wondering whether life in Britain would ever experience a resurgence in trust of the political classes, for instance? When the next Parliamentary scandal comes along, will Cameron’s Tories do the honourable thing? And remain honourable in not returning to government, ever again?
Will we ever see a return to responsible politics? Will principle ever return to the debate between MPs of different parties, or will we continue with the pointless, jeering, “dividing lines” and a sneering refusal to answer reasonable questions? Will government departments ever do things other than endlessly recycle old spending announcements? Will the government stop finding new ways to insert itself rudely into our lives and our wallets?
Will newspapers ever return to regularly investigating things and breaking stories, or will they continue endlessly and unquestioningly repeating press releases?
Will “public servants” ever remember that they are there for the benefit of the taxpayer and that the taxpayer is not there for the benefit of the public servant?
Will the police ever become depoliticised to the extent that we trust them again?
Will the long-suffering motorist ever stop being regarded as a necessary evil, only suffered for the vast amounts of money that can be extorted?
Will people ever reclaim their right to do with their own lives as they see fit? Will an Englishman’s home one day again be his castle? Will people be allowed to smoke indoors ever again? Will overpaid bullyboys, suckling with gay abandon at the taxpayer’s teat and using said largesse to tell the taxpayer how wrong he is in everything he says and wants and does, ever be told to bugger off?
So many questions. But only, I’m afraid, one answer.
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January 22, 2010 at 16:07 -
Okay, let me guess.
Erm, Yes?
Sorry sorry. Only joking.
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January 22, 2010 at 16:50 -
Well, actually the answer here is very significant for the welfare and wellbeing of our great country, at one with the world and itself during my reign, and it is that you can get precisely six chocolate cream eggs in an eggbox, even in Scotland, home of the brave …….. Sarah, am I ranting and talking nonsense?…….. no, didn’t think so…….
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January 22, 2010 at 18:40 -
LOVE the photo. A picture speaks one-thousand words. Yes, that’s what we look like, in our eyes – shocked and amazed at what it’s turned into. Simply love that photo though.
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January 22, 2010 at 18:51 -
If there is hope it lies in the proles.
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January 22, 2010 at 19:29 -
No to all the plaintiff questions. 12th of Never I am afraid.
Decline and Fall. We are closer to the latter than the former.
The cycle is not mew.
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January 22, 2010 at 19:32 -
Will politicians cease being hypocrites & troughers?
I guess that gets the same answer
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January 22, 2010 at 20:40 -
I daren’t even look – I’m still in the ‘Brace’ position. Is the answer as bad as I fear? No! Don’t tell me! With my head wedged firmly between my knees I can’t hear anything and can see only a stridently patterned carpet – not a bad way to go, I suppose.
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January 22, 2010 at 21:12 -
The answer could be a tentative maybe but only if there was a complete change in political outlook coupled with the use of technology to hand back most of the decision making to the people.
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January 22, 2010 at 22:00 -
No.
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January 22, 2010 at 22:56 -
Now, I really am depressed.
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January 22, 2010 at 23:25 -
It would help if we knew what our elected representatives were really like. The labels they attach to themselves and the banners they stand under don’t really matter. The strange thing is that once in Westminster all parties blur into a mass with very little to distinguish them from the others once the rhetoric has been discounted. Perhaps what we want and what we need are two separate animals. Could the point ever arise that the armed forces would take over (it almost happened once) and instal a dictator? Possibly not as the armed forces are going to be greatly reduced in number. Could a dictator (you’d have to call him a different name like ‘installed Prime Minister’) actually be in a position to effect the necessary changes? How about a single fixed term of 5 years in that post where he would head a government of national unity (ie the most able members of all parties)? “Cometh the hour, cometh the man” has happened before, but who is that man? (lets say ‘person’ to avoid being sexist!) There are not too many names available to choose from, but to start the ball rolling might I suggest Daniel Hannen and Frank Field (assuming they would even consider such a thing). I’m sure there could be others.
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January 23, 2010 at 00:48 -
Every now and again I get a feeling that maybe the worm will turn. None of us voted for this. It crept up on us while no-one was looking. You know it is just possible that a new Tory governemnt might just develop a head of steam and …..
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January 23, 2010 at 01:43 -
It all went wrong when Peter Hain’s feet were allowed to enter the Commons. Ghastly dirty great big horrible flippy-flappy….that’s Peter Hain. As for his feet, they defy description on such a Family Show as this.
After Hain’s feet came Thatcher’s handbag, and then Major tucking his shirt into his Y-fronts. Blair’s smarmy grin was the only way things could’ve declined further, until a one-eyed trouser snake was allowed out for a look around.
Well, we all know what trouser snakes do if given half a chance. So that’s the position we’re in.
Can anyone think of anywhere better than Australia? I’ve been over the globe like a bloody microbiologist, and the only other other place still owned by Her Maj is the Falklands.
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January 23, 2010 at 10:33 -
I heard on the news this morning that the terror threat level had been raised…
My first thought was that it was cynical manipulation by our leaders and nothing whatsoever to do with terror.
How have we sunk so low…?
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January 24, 2010 at 08:50 -
Sorry, just love the cat expression, still laughing at that one
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