I think in my heart that Osborne and Cameron are privileged and arrogant and incapable of empathising with about 99.8% of their own public.
If it placates my critics at all, I know that I do this, I know that it's unreasonable and I know that it will never quite be kicked from my council estate and heavily chipped shoulder.
I also know that a long line of Labour politicians have come up through very similar backgrounds and I didn't doubt their ability to understand my life. Three of the most aristocratic of all were my very favourites.
So I'm a hypocrite.
But come on! They do absolutely nothing to confound my prejudices.
It's like they actually attempt to be as aristocratic as they possibly can.
It seems champagne quaffing has doubled since Cameron came to No. 10 B40sNCnCIAE5m6f.jpg
It's perfectly possible to google pictures of our Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mayor of London in Auber-elite Bullingdon shirt and tails. http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/viva-la-geek.html
Osborne discussed the Autumn Statement in which he wanted to return spending levels to those of 1930, from a Bentley factory.
Something that sounded like quite a good idea - the Character Innovation Fund - ended up being apparently about "instilling a military ethos" in young people. All very Dad's army.
http://www.quaker.org.uk/news/quakers-object-millions-funding-developing-military-ethos-classrooms
Our Prime Minister has averaged 5 holidays a year. Whilst not even attempting to look like running the country taxes him even a little bit. (Pun intended) David-Cameron.jpg
It's just all so very depressing. I feel like I've inadvertently wandered into an Edwardian Novel. The poor laws are alive and kicking utterly trumped by about 7 of IDS favourite cruelties. We're blaming immigrants just like they do in Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropist 100 years ago.
Can't we just do the 60s again instead and pretend this was just all one awful LSD trip?
OH and I both read a novel this week about "what if" we hadn't continued fighting in WWII beyond 1940. "Dominion by C J Sansom (published 2012). Seems to me most of what he imagined might have happened actually is happening now under this so called "government". I despair. And totally agree with your final sentence!
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It would be great if it were the 60s again LSD trip or not, but sadly we have this incompetent lot coming at us daily. I now wish I had thought of the things you have written in this blog, in the order you have. Thank you for ordered remembrance of what Osborne is!
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I think that Russell Brand was right on Thursday on Question Time that the big problem is that the current crop of politicians have been to university, studied politics and then gone straight into politics, with no experience of the real world.
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