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After the guesswork on crime called the British Crime Survey, we have the Met Office (already famous for guessing what will happen to the world's weather in the long term) deciding that it would be perfectly OK to guess at the movement and density of the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland. This, despite the consequences of their utterances. It just goes to show that this country is completely out of control, leaderless. Supermarkets, utility companies you name it and you find that companies in the UK (particularly big ones, with inherent monopolistic situations) make bigger profits than overseas. No wonder so many of our utilities are foreign owned. There is the never ending clamour to tax us more heavily in the name of non-existent Global Warming. The police aggressively pursue crimes that attract Fixed Penalties. Such is the nature of our oppression.

Based on the need for self-preservation, New Labour has introduced a creed of no responsibility, no accountability. No matter what goes wrong, no one in 'authority' must ever be held accountable, there is always an excuse. So nothing ever gets better when bad practise is uncovered, pumping money into public services is to largely throw it away. It is why Sharon Shoesmith feels so aggrieved that she should be regarded as in some way responsible for the department she was in charge of; no Minister ever accepted such a rule under New Labour. Indeed, it would be unthinkable. Shoesmith was sacked not because of her careless attitude, though in the real world that was precisely the point, she was sacked because otherwise the blame may have moved up to Ed Balls and he is damned sure he is not taking responsibility for anything.

Corporate executives now casually sign contracts that entitle them to huge bonuses whether they succeed or fail. When the company does well, it is due to their leadership, when it doesn't it isn't their fault, they can't be held responsible for everything that happens.

Parliament clings to the etiquette that no member can accuse another of lying in the House. However, actually lying or committing fraud are not considered a problem at all. This all, these things spoken of here, have come to coalesce around the New Labour Project. A project to win power for it's own sake and to exercise that power by ignoring traditional rules and conventions, because they had no teeth, they were, to all intents and purposes useless. Lying to the House used to be a resigning matter, yet Blair has on many occasions, most spectacularly of course over Iraq and yet what has happened to him? Nothing. Nothing while he still held power and nothing since, despite his criminality.