The
idea of a Coalition government is that it should bring out the
best of two parties.
For
many years each successive government has dismantled the previous
government’s legislation, and then if it has been good legislation,
they have re-introduced it after a couple of years under a different
name. The problem with this coalition is that they like publicity,
more than they like politics.
Cameron, Clegg and Osborne all like the limelight, and let’s
be honest about it the television and press like them because
they invariable say something they shouldn’t. Last week
we saw pictures of David Cameron’s wife loading flat packed
furniture onto an Ikea trolley. I assume that the idea behind
this bit of publicity was to show the Cameron family were reduced
to buying flat packed furniture due to the recession, or perhaps
it was portraying David Cameron in a different light. How many
husbands and fathers do you know on a salary of £140,000,
plus an expense account to die for, would send their wife to Ikea
to buy flat pack furniture? Well now you of one!
Next thing we here is how Cameron is dragging his wife into a
church to announce that the UK is a Christian country "and
we should not be afraid to say so". He is getting really
desperate now for what he thinks is favourable publicity.
Osborne has been following years of Tory tactics of leaking information
to the press and television. The Tories used to blame the Labour
government, for leaking Tory documents. Now, as before, they deliberately
leak information before presenting it to parliament to gauge the
feedback. If it is good feedback they will introduce it to parliament,
if is received badly they will deny the information has come from
them and is untrue.
Very sneaky practices, typical of schoolboy pranks, not of senior
politicians or heads of government. But as you would expect, eventually
this schoolboy method of running the country back fired.
Mr Bercow , The House of Commons Speaker told the BBC's The Record
Review he was "displeased" that the contents of the
Autumn Statement had been "brazenly leaked". Following
the Autumn Statement, the chancellor was obliged to answer 96
questions over a 3 hour period. Mr Bercow said he was trying to
do the right thing by giving the issue "a very full airing,
adding that in a way it was a punishment for the way Osborne had
acted.
John Bercow’s wife, Sally, told Sky news that there was
a whispering campaign by the Tories directed at the speaker, such
rows were "ridiculous" and that her husband was not
biased towards Labour but "on the side of backbenchers".
Mr Bercow, himself an ex-Tory MP, has had several run-ins with
former colleagues unhappy at their treatment. Mrs. Sally Bercow
said “The bottom line is a lot of Tories, I'm afraid, still
can't accept that my husband won the speaker-ship fair and square
and is doing a very good job and he did it without Tory support”.
"He only had 20-odd Tory MPs backing him and as a result
they have got no hold over him and they don't like it. ”There
will always be a whispering campaign but if you look at what the
speaker has done in the job, he has introduced a lot of urgent
questions. Basically he is on the side of backbenchers."He
is not on the side of Labour MPs. He is not on the side of Tory
MPs. He is on the side of backbenchers and that is what he is
trying to do."
Conservative MP Mark Pritchard has told the BBC he "regrets"
swearing at Speaker John Bercow during an encounter in the Commons
corridors.
If you want to see our esteemed Prime Minister in action, watch
Prime Ministers Question Time, then you will realise what running
a country means to the P.M. If you can’t see it live, the
BBC usually put it up on their web site. If you watch it continually,
you might see the P.M. actually answer a question put by the opposition,
or maybe not.
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