George Osborne has a cunning plan; unlike Baldrick though,
this plan will probably work...
There seems to be a general consensus, although not
particularly being publicly stated, that Milliband will probably be the next
PM. It appears that he won’t win it, but the others will lose it, so he will
end up in charge of the country because people will punish the Coalition for
the austerity measures, which, of course, the Coalition will tell you was
Labour’s fault in the first place. The one overriding thing I have deciphered
from all of this is: as a country, we’re pretty much always going to be in
debt, so it’s about managing it rather than getting rid of it.
I said many moons ago that Osborne’s plan was to dismantle
the Welfare State (something he clearly finds an anathema) while ensuring his
own position in the history books. He would either be forgotten like so many
other Tory chancellors, or remembered as the man who ultimately saved the
country from going bankrupt and therefore he becomes the only logical
replacement for David Cameron and we get the Tory version of the Blair/Brown
problem all over again.
We’re all now painfully aware that the budget deficit could
be wiped out if everyone not paying tax were to pay it; yet someone very close
to me isn’t chasing up corporations for millions, she’s chasing up the likes of
you and me for a few hundred or thousand quid. Yes, it needs to be done; we can’t
have people like you and me possibly not paying everything we have to, so why
not Amazon, Starbucks, O2...? The list, I’m sorry to say, is pretty much
endless. There’s a new tax dodger being unveiled every week, it seems.
With Cameron pretty much resigned to trying to defend his
own image – he seems to have given up trying to defend IDS, Gove, Schapps, Hunt
and every other screw up in ministerial residence – because he kind of hopes
that he’ll have a future somewhere. His idol, Blair, is a high paid ‘diplomat’,
Cameron doesn’t need the money, but he does like the spotlight, so he’s doing
what he can to keep the sheen on his armour, he lets Gideon make his power plays
and watches his hopeless MPs continually insert their feet into their mouths.
Milliband would need to be in Jimmy Savile’s league to not be elected now and
he will inherit a country that hasn’t got any
money to change things back and why would he want to anyhow? It is too
expensive being an average country in 2014; it is a thankless task to run a ‘business’
that is only still running because it can’t be run by someone else.
We hear about nationalising the rail network again – how much
is that going to cost?
We talk about kicking out all the foreigners – who’s going
to clean your public toilets and dispose of all the waste from our hospitals,
or pick our fruit, or build extensions better and cheaper than cowboy British
builders?
We want out of Europe – but no one has bothered to point out
just how much we’ll lose by doing that.
In fact, the Tories have been astutely brilliant. They have
rather incompetently run the country, with their hapless sidekick, but have not
alienated everyone the way Melvyn King believed the incumbent government might;
this means they can continue to undermine the next government; make it
impossible to change without thrusting back into a deficit, so that Labour can’t
change all the changes and they end up getting the blame and being unelectable
for a generation and Osborne can come in as the Tory PM and tell everyone how
well he did considering and he can then completely dismantle the country and
turn us into a country of haves and will never haves.
The only thing about the current regime that truly bothers
me is the way they’re victimising the disabled. We often joke that the best
outcome for Tories would be to kill off all the ‘scroungers’, but it seems that
this actually is the covert
intention. This could be the thing they’re using to ensure they don’t get
elected; but of all the welfare reforms this is the one that stinks the worst.
If 0.6% of claimants of DLA are fraudulent, why punish the 99.4% who aren’t
trying it on? The disabled are a small percentage of voters and at the last
election estimates suggested as many as 60% don’t vote for varying reasons
ranging from disillusionment to being unable to get to the polling station...
So basically they are an easy target. That is almost like Nazism.
Osborne obviously fancies a slightly Aryan future, but maybe
with brunettes rather than blonds.
Just remember, none of the political parties are actually
going to do much for you that you will wholeheartedly agree with. In 25 years
time, the concept of ‘social justice’ will be as alien as Marxism – which, of
course, is the only really truly socially acceptable form of government.
Whoever you vote for, it’s only going to get better for you if you’re one of
the top 20% of earners – and very few of them don’t vote Conservative.
We are all going to die, but with George Osborne’s help we’ll
die a lot unhappier and without two ha’pennies to rub together...
