Twiga apologises for the gap between this post and the last. One reason is that politics and reactions to them almost everywhere have been predominantly dull. Here in the UK is no exception and the blame must go right to the top. Until the end of the Gordon Brown era comedian Rory Bremner did a great line in takeoffs of our dear leaders and aspirant leaders. He did a superb Tony Blair and Gordon Brown although he struggled with Her Majesty's (loyal?) opposition under David Cameron. He just didn't find enough to work on there. The lights were clearly out. Then came the May 2010 General Election. Brown didn't have a majority,hing on for a weekend and after a weekend's hesitation understood the figures didn't add up in any direction ,- just as the economic ones hadn't for several years -and then did the walk of shame. Cameron rode into Downing Street, accompanied by something less than mass hysteria, having signed up ashen faced Nick Clegg as his LibDem coalition partner . Some weeks later, defying the assumption that David Miliband would square up to them across the dispatch box, New Labour was replaced by New old Labour when his union backed fratricidal younger brother Ed, previously a bag carrier to Brown and allegedly the tea maker for his boss and more senior colleague Ed Balls. None of these three "leaders" is charismatic. In fact all three are definately not so to the extent that they are verydifficult to parody. They themselves do a better job at that than anyone else could. Hence Bremner's self awarded P45.
Against the background of the electorate having basically said "We don't much care for any of you, however good or bad and whatever the past" ,and having therefore voted for a coalition which gave nobody a clear majority, there was a great opportunity for the new trio to figure out that they needed to do something other than shout at each other at the weekly Prime Minister's Questions so as to begin restoring people's in politics and politicians. This needed to go beyond rounding up and booting out fiddlers of expenses and other such miscreants. It needed to encompass new, calmer, more professional, consultative even , ways of doing business. People wanted ,-and still do,- to see cooperation rather than perpetual confrontation. It would have been interesting, a revolution of the sensible even..... and not dull.
Meanwhile dear old limp wristed BBC drones on like an old fashioned maiden aunt, feeding us on a diet of , yes, dullness. Grimy crime, celebrity this and that, everlasting moans about "the cuts", the state of the NHS but it not being the NHS' fault, the state of everything else but it not being anybody's fault other than the government's or anyone with a viewpoint of anything less than a light reddish tinge. As we say, all rather dull. Never mind, it's nearly December and time to crack open the credit cards and get back into a bit of happy debt building. Just like old times. That will cheer everybody up and make them forget what dreary souls vie for the nation's attention with yawn inducing ,almost preaching, monotony. It's not looking good for Rory Bremner this side of the General Election though.
Against the background of the electorate having basically said "We don't much care for any of you, however good or bad and whatever the past" ,and having therefore voted for a coalition which gave nobody a clear majority, there was a great opportunity for the new trio to figure out that they needed to do something other than shout at each other at the weekly Prime Minister's Questions so as to begin restoring people's in politics and politicians. This needed to go beyond rounding up and booting out fiddlers of expenses and other such miscreants. It needed to encompass new, calmer, more professional, consultative even , ways of doing business. People wanted ,-and still do,- to see cooperation rather than perpetual confrontation. It would have been interesting, a revolution of the sensible even..... and not dull.
Meanwhile dear old limp wristed BBC drones on like an old fashioned maiden aunt, feeding us on a diet of , yes, dullness. Grimy crime, celebrity this and that, everlasting moans about "the cuts", the state of the NHS but it not being the NHS' fault, the state of everything else but it not being anybody's fault other than the government's or anyone with a viewpoint of anything less than a light reddish tinge. As we say, all rather dull. Never mind, it's nearly December and time to crack open the credit cards and get back into a bit of happy debt building. Just like old times. That will cheer everybody up and make them forget what dreary souls vie for the nation's attention with yawn inducing ,almost preaching, monotony. It's not looking good for Rory Bremner this side of the General Election though.
