A government that has lost the plot

To my deep distress, it has been apparent since the latter days of the Blair premiership that here we have a Labour government stumbling to defeat at the next election. I had some faint hopes at the start of the Brown premiership but these were dashed pretty early on.

This government is nigh on hopeless. The bills it passes are all cosmetic soundbites and either irrelevant or ineffective. Its ministers are clearly ill equipped for the size of the task. We hear now that Harriet Harman is gearing herself to be Brown's successor when, as seems likely the way things are going, he is forced out. If there is anything which would make me hope Brown stays in post its the possibility of being replaced by the inept Harman.

And when it comes to substantive issues of the nation's future, the government is lost and enfeebled. Look at the situation with knife crime. Seventeen young people stabbed to death in London alone since the turn of the year. We are clearly in the grip of a gang culture in parts of our inner cities which requires to be excised, root and branch. People involved in knife crime should be heavily punished. Potential immigrants awaiting citizenship and asylum seekers involved in crimes of violence should be booted out of the country with absolutely no compunction.

Instead what is Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith's answer? We are going to take knife criminals around A and E wards so they can see the damage their actions have caused. All together now..say 'Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh - bless!' As if the little monsters will give a shit. This is yet another daft idea like Blair's idea of towing thugs to cash machines, invented by a government long on soundbites and short on genuine policy.



Britain has been sliding into this mess for years and now we are seeing the consequences of a mix of social policy disasters. The family unit has virtually disintegrated in many parts of the country and we have a breed of kids with no conscience , no morality and no role models. We have a failed immigration policy, a so called 'multi culturalism' which has produced ghettos of deprived, disadvantaged and resentful teenagers whose law is drugs, guns, knives and violence.

Somehow, somewhere Britain has to get to grips with this instead of pussy-footing around with taking these poor deprived souls to A and E wards. We need a government with real ideas and real balls.

It ain't this one!