Britain waives the rules.........

The British must be in despair over the governance of the country. They voted for change last year and what do they get? More of the same – worse, if anything. Conservatives now have no-one to vote for. Cameron described himself as ‘heir to Blair’, as if any rational person would want that accolade. Well, that was perhaps the first and only time he has told the truth. We now have the same total lack of principle or any discernable political convictions, the same mixture of spin and deceit, the same old porkies.

At least Blair seemed to be steering the ship of state, if only up the creek. This government’s all over the place. It has u-turned so often it’s no longer sure in which direction it’s facing. It backed down on privatisation of the nation’s forests. Its NHS reforms are a shambles and have set the clock back 30 years. We can be pretty sure that education and social welfare will also turn to porridge. We have the obscenity of the massive foreign aid budget increase at a time of financial crisis. People expected Dave to stand up to Brussels. Instead he sucks up.

The primary purposes of government are the defence of the realm and the preservation of the currency.

The SDR has made Britain incapable of defending itself. It is said that the SDR was rushed, hence the problems. No it wasn’t. Dave must have been a long time in the planning of the destruction of Britain’s defence capability, but he wasn’t about to put that in his election manifesto. Our armed forces used to be one of the few things that we could be proud of. Not any more. It is reported that morale is so low that the elite are rushing for the exits.

Well might the President of Argentina start rattling on about the Falklands. She knows very well that if they had another pop the UK could not mount another expedition. Even 30 years ago it stretched resources to the limit with passenger liners and container ships being pressed into action. But at least we had carriers and Harriers. No more. The Ark has gone, the Harriers have been sold to the US at bargain-basement prices, and the Nimrods have had their wings ripped off just to make sure any future government can’t change direction.

It is said that childish spite comes into it; the Harriers were dumped to punish the Admiral for saying truthfully that the Libya adventure needs them, and the Nimrods vandalised to stop any further argument by the military.

As for the fiscus, it very much looks as if the UK taxpayer will have to dig deep yet again to bail out the bunch of crooks who run Greece.