Actually there is one thing I want to comment about. The role of the Civil Service in GE-time.
The one thing that has bemused me in the last twenty years or so is the so-called neutrality of the Civil Service.
During elections, the government can call on the offices of state to fisk opposition policies -why?
Why should a political party be allowed to use the mechanisms of State to get themselves back into power?
Why should the taxpayer that may not even vote for them, pay the wages of the Civil Service just so it can do the sitting political party's election politics?
Surely from the moment of seeing the Queen, all researchers, press officers etc that are employed by the Crown (ie Us) should cease to be involved. If Labour want to fisk something then they should use their own staff, not ours.
MEH
I know I haven't written much about the election but I think I know why
I love politics, I have a degree in politics, but this election has just left me flat. which is odd.
One of the most venal, corrupt and incompetant governments in UK history is at the final furlong - I should be jumping up and down in joy at the chance that it maybe removed, finally.
But, but, I'm disinterested - nothing's sparking for me.
Is it that the troughers have affected my appetite, I don't think so.
The campaign has been on for a week and with the government coming out with blatent rubbish and the Tories not finding that core message, the whole thing (attm) is leaving me, well, a bit meh.
And if I'm thinking like that, what on earth is the ordinary "man-on-the-street" thinking right now?
I love politics, I have a degree in politics, but this election has just left me flat. which is odd.
One of the most venal, corrupt and incompetant governments in UK history is at the final furlong - I should be jumping up and down in joy at the chance that it maybe removed, finally.
But, but, I'm disinterested - nothing's sparking for me.
Is it that the troughers have affected my appetite, I don't think so.
The campaign has been on for a week and with the government coming out with blatent rubbish and the Tories not finding that core message, the whole thing (attm) is leaving me, well, a bit meh.
And if I'm thinking like that, what on earth is the ordinary "man-on-the-street" thinking right now?
JUST LOVELY
Spring seems to have made an appearance here in London so to add the niceness of the day, here's a film from Neil Gaiman about his new book with Charles Vess, enjoy
AND THEY'RE OFF
Here we go then
But hang on...isn't the Prime Minister meant to announce an election to the House of Commons not on the doorstep of Number 10????
But hang on...isn't the Prime Minister meant to announce an election to the House of Commons not on the doorstep of Number 10????
HATE HOUR
An extraordinary story in the Sunday Times about the police installing CCTV inside people's homes to try an crack down on crime (I would link but Murdoch's gone behind firewall).
There is a brilliant contradiction in the article:
...police say they will collect footage from the cameras if other "serious offences", such as domestic violence or murders, are committed
Ok at least they are upfront about that but... then it goes on -
[Chief Inspector Martin] Kinchin denied the cameras curtailed civil liberties. "It's something that is done with the consent of the home owner...so a lot of the systems they will switch on when they leave the house and switch off when they're at home"
Can you spot the discrepancy?
And is everyone ready for the exercise and hate hours?
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