On the BBC is Bliar handing over to Brown. They have expensive outdoor camera crews all over London filming Jaguar cars and people going off for lunch at the Treasury.
And in the real world, quite a lot of the people who put Bliar and Brown into power are baling out their homes, and wondering why they were built on flood plains while flood protection plans are being postponed and underfunded. Blunkett was interviewed, but wasn’t even asked about how things are going in Sheffield.
I am glad to see the back of Bliar, but I can’t see that Brown is an improvement. This is the man who has masterminded the accumulation of the huge debts which have helped bolster Bliar’s Government by promoting a false feeling of wellbeing, and who stood quietly in the background when Bliar started his adventure in Iraq. I don’t get why he has been granted a reputation for prudence and if he had the principles the BBC say then he would have resigned along with Robin Cook.
I think we just have another Bliar, just as ugly on the inside, but a bit uglier on the outside.
So how come I am listening to “impartial” BBC personnel chattering on and on about how everything is so much better than 10 years ago? How the public services are so much better, how we are so much better off?
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