Prime Minister's Questions? It's just a self-congatulatory show

     What a show this PMQs is , Prime Minister’s Questions? My foot, it is just an almighty congratulatory show. But what was more interesting watching the talk afterwards with Henry Zeffman and some finance MP’s. It did also show the government’s disarray in the question of how to finance the Defence requirements. The Strategic Defence Review is now so overdue it might as well be shelved altogether as the situations in the world have changed considerably. The other mentioning by the Treasury spokesman was the possibility of raising taxes, As he said we need to go to the country and find out what people want. Excuse me? Who did we vote for to sort these things out? This point was not really taken up but frankly it seems to me they have completely lost the plot. They are at loggerheads, hundreds of MPs want more social services. More people on benefits and they just don’t care whether that cost comes at the Defence budget or any other budget. You hear about all the good things they do, have talked about, wrote thousands of pages of reports and are incredibly defensive of their work. And here I sit behind my computer looking at the reality on the streets and asking myself – What the hell are they talking about? Where are those wonderful things? The boats less, we are dealing with terrorists, we do this, we do that. Yet, the situation gets worse day by day. The boats have never stopped, yet we hear there are less immigrants. How? Oh the weather has been bad but that fact has escaped them. So, we can all see how these ‘facts’ are turned around to fit the government’s standing on these issues. It is just incredible they get away with this.

    The main question of taxation is pretty simple, it has been asked so many times – How are you going to finance this, where will the money come from. During this PMQ’s afterwards in the programme Politics Live, it became clear the Treasure is considering further tax rises. You just cannot believe the incompetence of these people. They simply walk away from a serious problem. Is that what we all are paying them for? What a sad example of a country we have become. We are simply a laughing stock. My friends, at least those I still have, on the Continent tell me it is high time to emigrate. Indeed hundreds of good British people have had enough. I wonder how much longer European countries can house the incomers. Although I would say not to worry as those who leave here can look after themselves. They are the people we so desperately need. But now they take their money and their expertise to another country to benefit them and not us. Is this the legacy our elected representatives want to leave? No wonder, although again they do not say this, perhaps they favour immigration to counteract emigration. What they forget though is that what comes tend to be young males. Young people who have aspirations. And if these aspirations are not forthcoming or they are not properly looked after then problems as we have seen now so many times, will arise.

    Yes, money is at the root of these problems. I would be first to say, it is a very difficult problem, there is only so much to go around. Taxation has to be fair. Proper budgets need to be made and held. Politics should not be a game where a party just throws caution into the wind and tries to fulfill its social aspirations, come what may at the cost of other needed services. Sad? Of course, but not just that, it is a calamity.