tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post208646041709388817..comments2024-01-30T07:41:20.885+00:00Comments on Broken Barnet: Teetering on the brinkMrs Angryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-56243123945334250612010-05-06T10:10:30.930+01:002010-05-06T10:10:30.930+01:00Well, I agree with almost everything you say, Dave...Well, I agree with almost everything you say, Dave, although I think that the lack of honour in politics applies, sadly, to all parties. The problem is that entering politics is no longer a vocational act but merely a career choice. Gone are the days when Tory MPs were gentlemen and serving the country on a noblesse oblige basis, and equally Labour MPs are no longer fighting for a fairer society with real experience of deprivation and injustice. It's all too comfortable and homogenised now. I kind of hanker for the good old days, when Tories were despicable aristocrats exploiting the downtrodden masses, and Labour politicians were stern faced men of the people, socialists (whatever happened to that idea?) Now we have old Etonians going around in shirtsleeves and Labour ministers with butlers. It's all gone wrong.<br /><br />I remember when a relative of mine announced that he was going into politics, and was asked by my dyed in the wool Tory father which party he intended to represent. The answer was that he had not decided yet. My father was speechless with rage: he wouldn't have cared which party it was, but the fact that someone would be such a political tart was horrifying.<br /><br />The two main parties have moved all the way to the middle so as to be electable to the largest section of voters because the politicians on both parties want only that: to be elected and to stay in power, hanging on for grim death whatever cock ups they cause.<br /><br />I suppose the one compliment you can pay the bunch of nutters running Barnet is that at least they do not feel the slightest need to make themselves attractive to the electorate. They are everything you say they are and more, and really don't give a monkey's. They seem to live in some sort of group psychosis, completely out of touch with reality: what on earth the Tory party leadership makes of them I really do wonder. But again, they are probably not unique: local politics tends to attract the unorthodox and lunatic fringe of any party. But as I've said before, we get what we ask for and if the electors of this borough just sit back and let them carry on, they will have to live with the consequences. Oh dear. And now I'm off to vote.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-67196113548660903722010-05-06T02:02:54.050+01:002010-05-06T02:02:54.050+01:00Mrs Angry
I agree with you that we need to get ri...Mrs Angry<br /><br />I agree with you that we need to get rid of this Tory council, but I would like to see it replaced with…a proper Tory council! The present lot are not in any way shape or form representative of the Conservative Party I joined all those years ago. The current bunch are incompetent, arrogant, reckless, negligent, unprincipled and self obsessed. But it is unfair to tar all Tories with the same brush. I do not know of any ordinary party member who thinks it is a good idea to scrap the wardens, especially when the savings could easily be found by getting rid of the spin doctors, political assistants and the magazine that nobody reads.<br /><br />When the Argentineans invaded the Falklands, Lord Carrington resigned as a matter of principle. The invasion wasn’t his fault but he knew what the honourable course of action was. But today, you can gamble with £27 million of taxpayers money, lose it, not ever say sorry but instead get rewarded with a seat in Westminster with an even bigger trough to stick your snout in.<br /><br />The Conservative councillors in Barnet have become totally unaccountable to party members and I fear that the situation will not improve until they (the members) once again assert their authority. A few high profile casualties at the polls will hopefully speed up the process.Don't Call Me Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602899129846028170noreply@blogger.com