Greed and arrogance = incompetence

Today we had the most graphic example yet of the stupidity and incompetence of the British Prime Minister and government. If we were not witnessing the current events, we would have difficulty believing that even Tories were capable of such monumental incompetence and incoherence. Eighteen months after the referendum to leave the EU and nine months after triggering Article 50, formally announcing the decision to leave, the government made two astonishing admissions, they admitted that there have been no impact assessments conducted into the economic implications on our decision to leave, and that the government have yet to discuss their intended goals on what they want to achieve with their decision to leave. If a primary school teacher wants to take his/her class on a nature ramble they have to complete a risk assessment, that is a statutory requirement, and yet the government who requires such provisions for all such basic events has failed to engage in any form of risk assessment on the most important decision facing a British government since the Second World War. This is quite remarkable and an astonishing dereliction of duty. Despite the British Cabinet meeting at least twice every week, they have not discussed what it is they are seeking to achieve on the issue that has consumed their every waking moment in the past year and a half, and they have made no attempt to discover what effects this decision will have on crucial fundamental sectors of the economy such as agriculture, industry, finance, health education etc. The British public, who re-endorsed this coalition of imbeciles last summer are going to reap the full effects of hubris, and I have no confidence that they are capable of realising what they have done. The abiding characteristic of the British is scapegoating, it is always someone else's fault. As Tom Paine famously wrote, 'these are the times that try men's souls'.

If you read this blog you will know that I consider an understanding of the writings of Thomas Paine as crucial to understanding democratic governance. I was reminded of what he wrote in 1777 in his The American Crisis, a series of pamphlets he published in America in 1777 and 1778. 

If ever a nation was made and foolish, blind to its own interest and bent on its own destruction, it is Britain......Men whose political principles are founded on avarice, are beyond the reach of reason

I could not have crafted that as a comment on Theresa May's Tories any better as there is no more avaricious creature on the planet than a British Conservative. Brexit is a wonderful example of irrationality, ideology taken to the point of insanity, and put in the hands of callous and avaricious sociopaths who are completely indifferent to any interests other than their own. This collective flight from reason was an English and Welsh phenomenon as the intelligent Celtic sectors of the UK retained their reason and rejected the fascist styled leave campaign of immigrant and foreigner scapegoating that so characterised the referendum campaign. The Tories are even completely ignoring the interests of British business and manufacturing, their own core supporters, who are now on the edge of panic over the coming catastrophe. The Tories mismanagement of government has become a serious crisis as their fixation on Brexit has led to an almost complete abandonment of the rest of their governmental responsibilities with the result that British society is riven with problems in education, health, housing, poverty and inequality, just to name the obvious. I am running out of adjectives to describe the state of the Tories mentality, indifference, arrogance, incompetence, but it is their callousness and cruelty that really disgusts me. Paine again brilliantly summed up the British when he told us that
It has been the folly of Britain to suppose herself more powerful than she really is, and by that means has arrogated to herself a rank in the world she is not entitled to

How true does that ring today, when the mighty British parliament is being held hostage by a small group of Northern Irish fundamentalists. The British are speedily learning the message Joni Mitchell gave us in 1970 in Big Yellow Taxi, 'don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till  its gone' You have been warned

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