Lawyers & social security scroungers
Of course, we were all uplifted to the Nu Labour take a complete & utter drubbing in the Crewe by-election if for no other reason that it heralded the start of a long line of government ministers all try to explain that the electorate as sending a “clear message”.
The clear message isn’t that we want government policies to change, it is that want the entire government not just to be collectively killed but hideously mutilated in some freak traffic accident. That way we can simply dig a pit, pour in body parts, gore, a few gallons of unleaded & then toss the match & try & forget about how ghastly the last eleven years have been. Sadly this is only a dream as accordingly to the Laws of Cumulative Probability it is unlikely that we can hope for the entire Parliamentary Labour Party to be wiped out in a single car crash & given that the other day, it cost Mrs FM £96 to fill up her Landrover, the aforementioned few gallons of unleaded would undoubtedly bankrupt the country.
So, do we delight in the trustafarian Tories’ victory? Well to my mind, I have yet to hear anything from the Notting Hill set that would lead me to believe that they are any better than the other lot. Just-call-me-Dave Cameron is many many things, but another Thatcher he is definitely not.
Indeed, as just about every political commentator starts to predict the next General Election outcome, its worth noting that one swallow doesn’t make a summer.
Maybe Crewe is an indicator of the mood of the country, but I have to confess that I’d be hard pushed to find it on a map – somewhere in the North, I think. I believe that I went there once. I know that I do not propose to return.
However to my warped & twisted little mind, the whole by-election thing highlighted just about everything that it wrong with dear Blighty.
In the red corner we had Tamsin Dunwoody who sought to attack her principal opponent because he has money – nothing like the politics of envy as The Huntsman points out. Indeed, Ms Dunwoody even described herself as
a single, unemployed mother of five
So Tamsin, you & your ‘family’ are already a burden on the state & yet you feel that just because your mother was an MP for a few years, that qualifies you for office? Really? & if you had been elected, would you have exercised the same degree of judgement when considering legislation that you have so clearly exercised in your personal life?
Now as for matey boy in the blue corner, we had Edward Timpson, an independently wealthy lawyer & another lawyer in Parliament is just what we all need.
So lets be clear here, the choice that was offered to the Crewe electorate was a dole mole or a another posturing advocate. Now explain to me exactly how that in any way constitutes a choice? I used to think that we stout bulldogs deserved better: these days I just cant be bothered
Footnote: RM points out just how much money Tammy's family have sponged from the taxpayer