Who Are These People?

 I have to ask this as the past 15 or more years the "quality" of politicians has eroded to such an extent that the lab rat joke now applies to them.

The Rat Lab Joke?  It goes something like the fact that they have substituted Lab Rats for (lawyers) Politicians.  It's no great loss to society and the Lab technicians don't get attached to them!

These myopic, ideologists do not appear to have any moral compass or any analytical abilities.  They cannot think in big terms and so they make stove piped decisions that screw up other areas of the economy or international relations.  They don't resign when they are wrong or when they do something wrong.  Gone are those days where a politician would resign over a matter of honour or because they disagreed with policy or indeed they had done something wrong either in the job or on the side!

They have no grasp that they are there to serve the people and not themselves, they lack empathy and cannot work out why people are angry with them and the decisions they make.  The ivory towers of political life and the do what I say not what I do hypocrisy is off the scale.  "The Foreman's job is mine at last.... The working class can kiss my arse!" as the old song goes and the slow and painful car or rail crash is still happening in very slow motion and they are the only people who cannot see it.  I say slow motion but it is beginning to mount up now and shades of 1976 are ringing in my ears.  I had not long started work and this country shipwrecked itself and was salvaged by the IMF.  Have a look at THIS Debt Clock and we are potentially £4 trillion in debt and this clock shows the debt running up.  They have to take a loan to service the debt.

Of course, their policies are now reaping the opposite of what they wanted, high energy costs, upping minimum wages, increasing National Insurance and all the other measures finally brings the rewards that they (I hope) didn't plan.  High Streets look quiet and shops are shutting along with hospitality venues too.  The solution I imagine will be to tax harder and deeper and so eventually it will destroy what's left.  They never learn this lesson.  Every time they come in to power they do this.   More public services does not bring money into the country and the Laffer Curve proves right, once again.

Nothing I can do about it other than watch the crash and hope it doesn't overly affect me and my family.  Mind you, our politicians presiding over running the country into the ground and letting it go to the dogs cannot see any problems and are totally disconnected from the very people they say they are there to serve!