Government Influence

Just to ram home that Cameron is a Big government PM at the head of a social liberal (liberal with state control that is) party, he is implementing measures to display his power to influence. Government, of course was invented to handle a few matters of national importance on behalf of the people, who elected them to this office. This has been corrupted by modern politicians into a fervent belief that they control the country and elections are a throwback, an inconvenience they have to suffer.

Cameron wants to attack the price of alcohol, so that the poorest people will find it just that little bit harder to enjoy something multi-millionaires, with hefty salaries from the public purse will be unaffected by. This, he assures us, will stop binge drinking in its tracks. Binge drinking you see, is something only poor people do and it is a considerable annoyance to socialites.

Naturally, small children asked for their opinion on the subject will point out that the price issue is only loosely connected and that it is more a social problem, maybe more influenced by things such as corruption in high places eroding the moral fabric. But it can't be that, because overall, Cameron is quite happy for MP's to keep dipping their hands into our pockets for a little extra cash. That they should corruptly hold private positions that relate to their public role. No, it can't be a moral issue.

Of course if we had laws to prevent bars and clubs from serving people who are clearly 'too far gone' and maybe we could have 'courts' who dealt with those being 'bloodthirsty in the streets', who could then imprison them, it might be helpful. This would show that the behaviour is not acceptable. It would be a drastic change from what we currently do, but I don't know, maybe we should try it.

Then there is Cameron's attempt to destroy my local Chinese and Greggs. He has added 20% to the price of the food they sell, in an attempt to further enrich the government, which has been spectacularly mismanaged and is in something of a mess. again, these measures should mainly affect those least able to pay so of no concern to wealthy, taxpayer funded social liberals.

What a government should do is make an environment that allows businesses to be successful and otherwise, stay away. Not be a monkey on the backs of those businesses. It should not make wealthy people richer through subsidies to idiot projects like wind farms, to address a non-existent creature of their nightmares. Government should not influence commerce, let alone corrupt its course.

I saw a Pizza takeaway shop take delivery of some new kit yesterday, which will have meant some money going to the delivery company and to the firm they bought it from etc etc. But should he have made that investment? Can he afford it, now that his business is likely to see a downturn in custom, due to his prices going up by 20%? Not 20% by his choosing and not 20% extra for him, but because a group of greedy, incompetent, but richly rewarded and very self-impressed idiots have the power to impose their will on him and destroy his business if they so wish. I suppose multi-millionaires don't use such tacky establishments anyway, so where is the harm?

I really don't believe in hatred for any reason, but Labour's constant attempts to whip up violence by promoting class hatred and class war, is particularly disgusting. But it seems Cameron is a fulsome supporter of a group of people who think they are 'a class apart'.