Cuts and Bad Behaviour

Good morning  

Moll and I are quietly enjoying spring.  Just like all those good people who walked across London to Hyde Park yesterday, all of them decent, caring but deceived.

Some of the younger ones hit the News at Ten.  I cannot really blame them.  Spring and excitement are in the air.  They are young and energetic.   They should be building not burning.

The leaders are to blame.

Bob Crow, leader of a great trade union, was on Radio 4 Any Questions. 

Talking about pensions he trotted out the old “lump of labour” economic fallacy.  You know the one about there being only a fixed number of jobs in an economy.

Either Bob is economically illiterate or he is dishonest.   His hard working union members deserve better.

But, neither Jonathan Dimbleby nor any of the panel challenged Bob.  We deserve better.

Ed Milliband spoke to those good people in Hyde Park.  He is educated; has a degree in economics and politics.  He knows that there is no real difference between Alistair Darling’s and George Osborne’s plans.

Ed bottled it.  He left those good people believing that their “No Cuts” banners were OK.  He had not one honest or practical proposal.  Ed is another failed Labour Prime Minister in waiting.

Meanwhile the real Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister, David and Nick, are failing to lead by example.  Whitehall mandarins have increased their numbers and powers since last May.  Some local authority leaders are designing and planting Taliban style I.E.D’s timed to explode in the summer and the autumn.  They cut lollipop ladies on £70 a week, preserve Directors on £2000 a week and appoint Special Advisers on £4000 a week.

Paws4Now

Jock

Coming soon:  “Lies – Ancient and Modern.”