Do You Know What Government Is For? Because Politicians Don't

I was thinking about what troubles us. We have poorly regulated utility companies. Prices where a monopoly of some sort exists keep going up, taxes keep increasing, we have had a banking crisis, pensions remain unfunded, we cannot have a view on the EU, liberties keep vanishing, the police keep shooting unarmed and often completely innocent people with impunity and much else besides.

Yet what are the government actually doing? Implementing EU directives and slavishly following the Climate Change scam. Think about what is the prevailing motif of the current, coalition administration -the U turn. They have an idea, which they put into practice, then realise it is a bad idea and pull it. Charity tax anyone? When you think back, it was exactly the same with Blair.

These things all have one thing in common. They happen because the people responsible are careless and they are careless because, really, ultimately they are unaccountable. Jack Straw being pursued over 'rendition'? I'm sure some obscure detail will see it go away. The price of corruption required to make this happen probably doesn't rise above a bag of Maltesers.

Blair broke animal health laws whilst PM. No one arrested him, let alone accused him. Police acted in concert committing the crime of killing animals they had no right to. Just to make sure though, Blair used his time machine to make the crime not a crime with retrospective legislation. So although he was knowingly breaking the law at the time, he wasn't because in the future he would make a law that made it legal, at the time it occurred.

We should repeal that law immediately and give Blair a little more of something he dearly loves, a property in the UK. In this case, one with bars on the windows.

There is no current understanding of how climate works, so all the computer models and claims of the Greens is just so much hot air. The evidence they produce has to be biased because they don't understand the mechanism. No one does. But, because they don't examine anything, the government has adopted the cause and been completely converted to this new religion.

Unsightly and useless wind turbines go up, entirely funded by subsidy because they cannot pay for themselves and push up our bills unnecessarily. But because politicians and civil servants shun the traditional working day model of doing some work, during the course of a day no one checks the facts.

It is not just that the government does too much and involves itself where it shouldn't, it is that all of these things are done without concern, without due diligence and without care.