I can’t motivate myself to write anything political at the moment. What with Blair’s futile attempt to enjoy a self-aggrandising exit, there is little to write about as we move closer and closer to the summer silly season (then at least we can point and laugh at Ming at the conference).
There is political news of course. But reports that the Home Office is in crisis again, hardly register on the scale anymore. The Home Office is crippled, and if it were a horse, we’d have taken it out back and shot it. “It’s for the best,†we’d shrug as the vacancy of death clouds its eyes.
Quite why any politician would accept the Home Office brief is beyond me. Imagine it. Brown invites you to Number 10 the day after he becomes PM, and explains why exactly he thinks you have the capabilities to manage one of the most difficult offices in the land. What the dour Scot is actually saying is: “swallow this pill, and tomorrow you’ll wake up to see your picture on the front page of The Sun, only you’ll have a
turnip for a head. Oh, and the whole country will hate you.†It’s professional suicide.
So, to be honest, I haven’t really had the inclination to write anything particularly political this week. Maybe next week’s crisis at the Home Office will be more inspirational?
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Blaming the Home Office in my opinion is not the critical point today in Britain or anywhere else in the western world today.
The problem lies on the politics that each country is carrying out and when that politics altogether misdeals with the issues which are most delicate, then to try assigning the Home Office the role of fixing it all up is not the way out of the problem.
The problem was provoked by foreign and military policies, once this has been dealt with in a correct way, then the Home Office’s task will be much easier.