I have come to the
conclusion, spurred on by this final news story, that David Cameron
just doesn't care any more and is spurting whatever daft opinion
the1922 Committee has come with this time. No more benefits for
anyone, particularly not those scum who are under 25! Let's leave the
EU and go to war with France again for good measure! Schools
abolished for poor people!
I'm being deliberately
facetious there, but this week it's felt a little like that. It's
that or he's deliberately winding up the left with a series of daft
proposals in order to get the headlines away from Jimmy Carr and
corrupt banks, possibly because he doesn't want to rock that boat too
tightly. (Is Jimmy Carr finally paying his tax the reason for the
freeze of fuel duty? Doubt it.)
I really dislike the
right using the E.U. as catnip for the crazier fringe, trying to
bring in the nastier elements and probably nark off the Lib Dems at
that. Genuine worries about sovereignity always seem to be taken over
by frothing xenophobes, who classify the E.U. as a sort of Gomorrah
of liberal ideas/fascist removal of sovereign rights AT THE SAME
TIME, despite the fact that all countries seem to send over a
contingent of equally bizarre people who reckon that standing for the
European parliament is totally the best way to remove themselves from
it.
I feel a little
fatigued with the news at the moment. When it's a graduate specific
story, it's a little easier to comment on it in the spirit of the
blog, but stuff like this just keeps me so utterly flabbergasted that
I'm unable to rebut them. It's a bit like being asked to explain why
falling in a pit of spikes is a bad idea – it's so patently a bad
idea that it's hard to know where to start, as it includes stuff that
you assume a rational human being would know instinctively.
Possibly assuming that
we are governed by rational human beings is where I've been going
wrong.
