We don’t need more legislature, we need an effective government
Posted: May 15th, 2006 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: politics, uk |Yet again, it seems, Tony Blair is going to counter evidence of his own government’s ineptitude, with yet more legislation, and yet another attack on our civil liberties.
This is the problem with New Labour; all they can do is legislate.
The NHS, I’m reliably informed by senior Health Care administrators, is near total internal collapse. Even fringe services, such as dentistry, are in a horrendous state.
Defra, my own bete noir, is a mess, with thousands of farmers facing bankruptcy, thanks to Mar Becket’s botching of the Farm Subsidy payments. How did Blair reward this incompetent and witless woman? Promotion to the foreign brief, that’s how.
Our education system has become a joke, with the once hallowed A-Level standard, now much devalued. Our teachers are now little more than drones, and it takes a lisping celebrity chef, to highlight the muck they feed to our nippers.
Our frisky Deputy PM, the blimpish John Prescott, we now know, loves nothing more than sticking his hands up the skirts of his fellow MP’s wives, and rogering his secretary, in his taxpayer funded, graceless and favour, homes. Classy.
And let’s not forget the department that has created the recent tempest, the Home Office. It was not a failure of the legal system, nor was it the incompetence of the legislature, that led to the release of dangerous foreign nationals (who should have been assessed for deportation), into society. It was a system failure, a failure to implement existing procedures.
We don’t need more legislation - we need delivery. If anyone was in any doubt, of the fundamental incompetence of this government, then the past few weeks will have dispelled it.
So stop grandstanding Mr. Blair, and do the job you’re amply paid to do.
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tyger, the NHS is always on the verge of crisis, the education system is pretty much always a joke and the nocturnal goings-on at the Deputy PMs house are immaterial.
The answer is to free up the vast majority of our public services from government control.
A prison is not run by a politician, but by prison professionals. Same goes for schools. This principle needs to be extended upwards so that politicians are reduced to little more than members of the board rather than actual executives.
Well I laughed my socks off at this article. A very witty and sadly very accurate version of events.
Of course it’s always been the same but we should never let our governments think we are complacent or we don’t expect much progress from them just because it’s always been the same. We should keep them on their toes…never stop telling them that we demand and deserve to be served well by them.
Elvie, I disagree (not with the comments on the article, as usual Tyger treats us to some top notch comment and analysis). However I disagree that we need to keep on at our politicians. Already they are expected to be superhuman and ditched as soon as we spot a chink of reality.
There are no government or state functions that should not be run like private companies in terms of their management and leadership being chosen for competence, not by public popularity contests (democracy).
Politicians´ roles should be simply steering group level, board members etc but not executives, not expected to manage and not held up to account for some midlevel incompetence which is bound to happen from time to time in any organisation.
We put the wrong people in the wrong place then expect too much of them. No wonder it always fails.