Our straight talking Lancashire lass takes a sideways look at the daily news.
Cameron hiding behind the binge
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Over the past few years I’ve started to notice a weird pattern emerging in the world of politics.
Whenever something really bad happens to make the government look stupid – like unpopular policies or an unwanted invasion on a foreign country – the government will, without fail, declare war on binge drinking.
This week Argentina went to the UN to complain over the UK militarisation of the Falkland Islands in the midst of growing tensions in the area. The Tories have this weird emotional attachment with the Falklands. I think they still believe that the British Empire still exists. Ah well… Back home, the coalition government faces a right royal pasting as an e-petition of over 100,000 signatures against the deeply unpopular NHS reforms means this may have to be debated in parliament. The government also suffered a massive defeat in the House of Lords over their welfare reforms. I don’t want to sound vulgar, but the current ruling coalition is crapperoo.
And it came as no surprise to me that as the coalition government endured yet another week of political calamity, David Cameron starts spouting the usual rhetoric about how Binge Drinking is Breaking Broken Britain.
Except that this time round people aren’t buying it. Cameron wants more police to deal with drunkards, he wants more ambulance staff on call, he wants special drunk busses, ‘drunk tanks’ and a minimum price of alcohol.
All of which was promptly laughed off by police, medics and bus drivers. Because after the government cuts, there will hardly be any police, medics and bus drivers left to deal with these extra responsibilities. It is just a load of meaningless hot air designed to distract us from the fact that the Coalition government is doing an awful job, and frankly, Britain would be better off with a bunch of headless chickens in charge.
He must genuinely think that we’re all completely stupid…
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