WHO WILL SAVE US FROM POLITICIANS ?

As the politicians in the Eurozone countries, and much of the rest of the western world, try to paper over the massive chasms in their economies that they themselves, and their predecessors, have created, one wonders what is the point of politicians at all.

Today, 2 more stories of political incompetence have come to light. Firstly, Home Secretary, Theresa May, has been forced to make a statement about the shocking goings-on in the UK Border Agency. Specifically, the Agency stopped checking many foreigners coming to this country last year, meaning that an unknown number, quite probably in the tens of thousands, entered the UK without any proper immigration check. Of course, Ms May is blaming the entire episode on officers of the Agency and several have already been suspended, but the reality is that this is a state run organisation that has failed completely in its duty. Can the politicians truly exempt themselves from any blame ?

The second story to come out today involves another huge government Agency, HM Revenue and Customs. This monstrous organisation has, apparently, been found to have been entering into dubious and underhand arrangements with some of our largest companies, leading to enormous reductions in their assessed tax liabilities. It seems that while the ordinary man in the street is routinely harrassed and threatened by the bullyboys of the Revenue, large corporations can have cosy little chats and get their liabilities largely written off.

Politicians are always very quick to distance themselves from shocking revelations such as these. Despite the fact that it is the politicians who set all the rules, when things go wrong they use every possible arguement to ensure that the blame is placed elsewhere. The truth is that politicians are pathologically incapable of keeping their hands off of anything and everything that they see as being of interest, but most of them lack the skills needed to understand the true complexities of the systems concerned, to design new systems or to run ---- anything.

These people dabble in everything and end up making a mess, which they then leave to others to clear up. In extreme cases, they make an extreme mess which really can't be cleared up, as they've done with the economies of most of the major western nations and, in particular, with the Euro. In the end, they all walk away having become very wealthy, while the ordinary people, you and me, are left to pick up the pieces and pay the bills.