Pull your socks up Cameron......
16 April 2013
... get on with wresting control of this country from the left, there is a major difference between being in government and being in power.
... get on with wresting control of this country from the left, there is a major difference between being in government and being in power.
Massive power has been placed in the hands of unelected QUANGOs by government, something that has been done over decades. The problem is that the situation has got worse under Cameron with his appointments to lead public bodies. Of appointees who declare their political affiliations Labour supporters have been getting 77% of the appointments since Cameron became PM. That is even worse than under Blair and Brown when it was 75%. Under Major it was 32% going to Labour aligned individuals.
(Graph from ConHome)
Even some of those nominally Tory appointments, such as Patten as Chairman of the BBC, are a bit dubious in their 'Toryism'.
With so much power and influence being placed in the hands of these bodies, activist judges and with the EU responsible for over 60% of our law making, that does not leave much power for a Conservative (or coalition) government to exercise.
The solution is simple.
First of all abolish a lot of these QUANGOs, do not replace them and do not pass their powers and responsibilities to other bodies. In other words reduce the amount of government in a very real sense. As I said in a previous post they can start with the useless Equalities Commission.
Next up we need to get out of the EU, or at the very minimum get a massive repatriation of powers and reduce the influence of this organisation over the UK to a mere trading block.. Something discussed on here many times.
Thirdly make sure that, by law, all appointments by government to lead the remaining few public bodies are done on a strict formula relative to the votes cast in the preceding general election. In other words if the government party gets 40% of the vote then 40% of the appointments go to people aligned to that party.
Without this action Cameron may be in government but he is not in power.
- i can remember the "bonfire of quangos", turned out that no money was saved.
- There was some Howard - not enough and in too many case functions were not done away with, they just played pass the parcel.
- In a way this is very good news. This insistence of Party affiliation over and above competence.
If we were trying to gain influence with the likes of North Korea, becoming more Party-Partisan is one sure way to instil fellow-feeling.
About the only sticking point with all of this is the age of Cameron's children. It will be some time yet when one of them is ready to replace our current Esteemed/Supreme-Leader.
At least we heard it here first. The EU is our South Korea. - Can it be that we here are being put in touch with the business of the House set out for today?
"Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill 2012-13"
"Summary of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill 2012-13
A Bill to make provision about the UK Green Investment Bank; to make provision about employment law; to establish and make provision about the Competition and Markets Authority and to abolish the Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading; to amend the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002; to make provision for the reduction of legislative burdens; to make provision about copyright and rights in performances; to make provision about payments to company directors; and for connected purposes "
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/enterpriseandregulatoryreform.html
There is a letter in today's press; "...to highlight how important it is to retain section 3 of the Equality Act. It is of critical importance that the general equality duty – which the House of Lords voted, with a significant majority, to retain on 4 March – is not overturned or repealed during the last stage of the enterprise and regulatory reform bill in the Commons today, 16 April..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/apr/15/battle-key-equality-legislation - Most extraordinary, Barry blogs about quangos and Tom drones on about North Korea, Cameron's children and a Green Investment Bank.
Here's the answer, now what was the question? - i read it that tom was making a connection with barry's beliefs that only one party can solve all problems, something the north korean leadership are comfortable with.
- Actually that is far from the case Howard.
The Conservatives are the best of the bunch, that is all. Whereas the alternatives are the hopelessly inadequate and incompetent Labour Party who overspend and tax us into a financial crisis every time. The drips of the LibDems who in some ways are even more weirdly left wing than Labour and UKIP, no hopers who's only achievement would be to let in a Labour government.
The Conservative Party will move from merely being the best of the bunch to something much more positive when led with the kind of conviction and courage of Mrs T. - This is completely nuts.
This impending funeral has addled your brain Barry, you are in danger of losing the plot.
Worse still, is the resonance of this with the very ideology of "Greed is Good" that was behind the recent ruination of our economy and the economy's of much of the western world.
I have to stick with my comparison of this product of your 'moments of madness' and the regime atop the North Korean State.
The very idea that "Right is right" is insufficient to overcome the criticism of replacing competence with mere Party Affiliation. - This gets odder.
Tom is now comparing Barry to the young nutter in N Korea who is busy threatening USA with nukes.
Its a variation on Goodwin's Law I guess - Yes David - very odd indeed, getting odder by the day I have to say. Tom, are you sure that you are feeling OK? Your posts are often rather strange but you do seem to be getting off into some particularly wild flights of fancy just lately.
- Neither David or Barry score at all highly as regards English comprehension, perhaps this is the true Tory trait.
- Tom - make no mistake your rather weird musings have a mystique all of their own.
- To put it plainly, Barry, DC is a staunch EU supporter and advocates EU expansion too.
As for BBC, it has an evolutionist-atheist agenda, as one can see in their documentaries.
They try to ram down one's throat agenda-style theories that don't sum up.