Thursday 14 February 2013

Horse Meat Scandal

Some idiot on the Labour bench has said that despite testing for 'Bute' in horse carcasses, they have still entered the human food chain. Her accusation being that the government are responsible. I realise that the Opposition' are supposed to oppose stuff that is wrong and that some people, particularly the Left are going to oppose just because, but what is she on?

I think the whole idea has been that, through a series of motivators, some people have acted illegally to charge beef rates for unsaleable horse meat. There are many things on which this government can be held up to account, what with a blowing-in-the-wind Cameron and total pillock in Clegg in  it, but really, the fact that criminal behaviour exists is not a big point to make.

It is great though, the level of outrage amongst politicians over the horse meat issue is many times the magnitude of their passion over the NHS killing people. A big part of the reason I think is that, is explained by the  mode of thought strongly evident in the Blair regime and exemplified by the phrase 'first do no work'.

Generally, MP's are not there to do anything. Government is complicated and needs care and attention. What am I, the MP's ask, some kind of servant?

Of course the run of the scandal is reliant on this attitude also being prevalent in the EU, but also because the EU is constructed as a perfect conduit for corruption and illegality. It doesn't want to look for it, even where it occurs as an unintended consequence.

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