Queen Gordon’s queen’s Speech

So, Gordon has carried on with his newly designed not-quite-the-Queen’s-speech-but-basically-is speech, which is just another pointless initiative by Labour to ‘engage’ the public. The top billing three are here:

• Public say on GP hours
• Parents’ councils to help run schools
• Citizenship ceremonies for young people

What a load of rubbish.

The first two carry on this obsession that democracy and better services are somehow delivered by consulting the public. Now, I’m not against public involvement through consultation per se, but when it comes to important things like, you know, the health of the nation or the education of millions of children, I kinda want the decisions made by experts who have an inkling of what they are doing.

There is also the bigger problem here: it isn’t democratic in the slightest.

Who makes the decision to consult who? God knows. What this really boils down to is that the PTA and the residents association, the neighbourhood watch group and the campaign for local issues quango make the decisions.

Why? Why are these non-elected twats making decisions for me? You may say ‘well, involve yourself’, but that is easier said than done isn’t it. How do I involve myself? Who do I contact? Do I have to join?

No, this is a scheme that will be abused by local jumped up tossers who call themselves ‘Chairman of the Greater Poppington Residents Society’, or in other words, a nobody with training in nothing who is a nimby to the nth degree, hates change and wants it all as it was in his day.

The poor teachers will now have to have constant arguments with a select set of high profile parents, who effectively represent eight children out of a thousend, who are almost certainly architects, accountants, lawyers and chairman of the greater poppington residents society. They will get ripped apart in meeting by people who rip people apart in meetings for a living and will have to cave in for requests for more books, or better desks. Even though there isn’t any money.

The children to take citizenship ceremonies idea makes me feel sick. If you don’t already feel like you are British having lived here for, most probably, 16 years, then fuck off. How can a child of two UK citizens who was born in the UK and lived in said UK all of its life possibly not feel British?

This is an American approach to a probelm that simply doesn’t exist, that is the issue of caring about the country you live in. The problem is basic self-discipline, control and manners. Taking an oath won’t change that.

If you need to fly a flag or chant an oath, then you simply don’t deserve to have one. In fact you should be shot. It is totally un-British.

I want government to govern. I don’t want select groups of ‘the public’ running my health system or schools. I want people who know what they are doing running these services under an umbrella of government who keep their noses out and well away from residents associations who haven’t got a clue what is going on.

Local Authorities are run like this. An elected Council oversees a group of skilled people who basically run it for them. And it works, despite what the Sun would have you believe.

Labour is unable to delegate to professional people so instead hands it over to nimbys and quangos. Then it tells your chldren to stand up and pledge, bend over and take it like men.