Union Lackey
Besmirched is an adjective which immediately leaps to mind for he would not have been there but for the leftwing union bosses and to see his appointees trying to make a fist of it is so sad.
What is this country of ours coming to when we need to bend over backwards for unelected, unaccountable, faceless Eurocrats who want merely to drag us down to their levels. Though I’ve heard it said in response to my much trumpeted mutterings on this matter that our continental cousins live far more fulfilling and enjoyable lives than we in England do.
Nevertheless after spending several years of my life working and living abroad in Germany France and Switzerland, the Near East, the Far East and the Gulf. I have extensive experience of the way others live out their lives. Indeed I have over the years been offered many opportunities too re-locate but in the end I just can’t wait to get back to Perfidious Albion.
I’m left to suppose though that with the governments we have if you can’t take rejection and be humble, all you can do is to come out throwing wild punches in the hope that one might eventually land. There can be no doubt that in view of the world wide situation where banks had to be baled out wholesale and you are in a situation where it is likely to rumble on for a good while yet, options are limited.
But then in opposition you can do or say anything for it’s highly unlikely you will ever be called on to carry it through. But no matter how horrifying the situation when you get to see the small print in the notes to the accounts. There are always going to be steps to be taken, which you cannot avoid.
In the main you have to satisfy the people you borrow money from (on the massive scale we are now obliged to carry) can be satisfied their capital will be repaid and their juice is safe. For it depends entirely on the level of perceived risk. While risk it has to be said, is based on the extent to which any guarantees you make are credible and therein lies the dilemma for an aspiring power broker.
The books need to be balanced at some predetermined date in the not too distant, future if you are to cover the repayment schedules and make available the funds required for the economy to be successful. i.e. Where income matches out goings and in some small way produces a profit to pay down the gross national debt to levels the economy can sustain.
In a way opposition is like an ageing lothario who spots an attractive piece of hot totty and whose mind begins to make promises beyond the pale of the body politic and therein lies the rub.
Watch this space, I’ll be back!
Tom
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