Navel Gazing Fails

It has been apparent for some time that modern politics is just about the political class talking amongst themselves and trying to publicly score points over each other. It is more playground antics than anything connected to the real world. Cameron is not detached because he is rich. He is detached because he lives in the world of Westminster politics.

Just how this inward looking cabal would fail us is now becoming abundantly clear. Whilst Blair used the insularity of 'the bubble' to hide himself from proper scrutiny, Cameron is just disconnected. Hence they plot and plan 'strategies' for how to present things and how they can 'catch the others out', without any realisation that their childish pranks affect a nation.

If the theory was that by telling people to keep their tanks topped up, so any tanker drivers strike must fail, as people are perpetually able to cope with one, it has itself failed. Having created a nation that can't tie its own shoelaces, the politicians really shouldn't have been surprised when they told everyone to buy petrol that people did just that. Maybe politicians also don't realise how commerce runs on this fuel stuff.

That every time they turn the screw on fuel tax, the nation suffers and loses a little more of its ability to cope in the world. This disconnect, this political navel gazing is taking us down very dangerous roads, whilst enemies gather strength.

A clearly unhinged Scotch person has been elected to run an enclave where it seems a large number of deranged people have gathered. A fifth column exists in Britain. It is not the colour of their skin that worries us, but their supposed culture (one the cultured would call culture less). Of course, Galloway has to scuttle around the country looking to be 'elected' where people are as stupid and unprincipled as him and where vote rigging is 'cultural' and easy.

Galloway would love to be Britain's Hitler, or Stalin or Gadaffi. He dreams of power and wealth and oozes malicious harm. He is not the conniving, money grubbing Blair, he is not the oleaginous Mandelson, slimy and deceitful. Galloway is much more dangerous. He is Gollum pretending to be Smeagal.