In my last political post (two down) I likened Brown and Cameron to a pair of Schrodinger's cats on the grounds that each of them was capable of appearing to be simultaneously in two contradictory states. I warned that it would only be after an election that the box would open and, as those oil-stained quantum mechanics put it, one set of possibilities would collapse leaving the real Brown and Cameron exposed in their true colours. I was wrong! So, no surprise there, then; but, to be fair, I was only half wrong. Brown's box has been opened, and folly of follies, he opened it himself from the inside, and now we can all see the real Gordon Brown blinking nervously in the daylight, trembling with indecision, his arrogant stupidity in fostering an election fever exposed along with his political cowardice and poor judgement.
The other box remains firmly shut. Will the real David Cameron please stand up? Not bloody likely! Still, you never know because as the Blessed Margaret put it, "It's a funny old world!" Like a hanging in the morning, Brown's election threat concentrated what passes for Cameron's mind wonderfully. All the softly-touchy-feely bullshit went out the window and in the space of a few days he had to produce a list of specific policies. Suddenly, he, or his advisers, realised that Gordon's Big Tent was not the place to be, indeed, where many people wanted the Tory party to be was in a nice big, 3-bedroomed, detached house with no inheritance tax levied on it; a bit of help for their children to buy their own place so they can sod off from the parental home; no ID cards at a cost of a zillion pounds, forgeries of which will be on sale in Lagos within a week; a vote on the latest Euro-swindle and a determined effort to control immigration. I'm not at all convinced that when push comes to shove, 'Dave' will actually be able to do all, or any, of those things but it obviously rang a lot of bells in the electorate, enough anyway, to drive the bats out of 'Broon's' belfry.
So now we see yet another ripple from the Thatcher years washing ashore 20 years later. A property-owning democracy does not care for its property to be used as an excuse for excessive taxes. Local councils should beware the wrath of the people when setting their next tax rates. As for 'Broon', the news can only get worse. The economy will slow next year and during the next two years the bills from some of those mad, bad PFI schemes will come home to roost. The bloated public sector workforce under the leadership of some militant unions are likely to cut up rough just when 'Broon' will be desperate to hold down pay rises - the postal strike is but a taste of things to come.
In the meantime, we must all watch 'Dave' carefully whilst reminding ourselves that the descriptive title, 'Dim', did not necessarily come about because of the demands of alliteration!
PS: I cannot resist quoting the ineffable Peter Briffa:
"Gordon Brown? Gordon Yellow, more like."
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