HOW IS THE COALITION DOING SO FAR? RUBBISH!
It's too early to tell how the coalition will turn out
By Frederick Forsyth
EVERY few days someone slithers up to me to ask: “Well, what do you think of the coalition so far?” I can only have recourse to the response of the former Chinese premier Chou En-Lai who was asked whether the French revolution had had a marked effect on Europe.
He thought for a while and murmured: “It’s too early to say.” But let us have a stand-back-afew-yards assessment.
1.Conservative voters were given a flat pledge the Tories would finally clamp down on no-cap immigration and end the incoming tide of foreigners, both EU and non-EU. This cannot now happen because Lib Dem pompous ass Vince Cable doesn’t like it.
2. The same voters were told a chainsaw would be taken to the jungle of pointless quangos and over-paid Labour luvvies who head and staff them. Well, quango queen Dame Suzi Leather, as useless a supercargo as one will come across in a long day’s march, still holds sway at the Charities Commission, now turned into a weapon of Left-wing bigotry. And Labour stalwart Jeff Rooker cannot be moved from the Food Standards Agency, doubling up on health and safety.
3. A third promise was to take a scythe to the vast army of Labour-recruited petty bureaucrats, the useless jobsworths and their mandarin bosses who either use their position to harass and persecute the law-abiding harmless or do nothing at all.
The latter are now officially designated as having nonjobs. But minister-in-charge Francis Maude tells us they cannot be eased out because their severances are so lavish we cannot afford to fire them. So these half-million unnecessary parasites waddle on, leeches upon the buttock of our groaning economy.
4. We were also promised (cast-iron was the word) that not only would there be no more transfers of power to Brussels but certain crucial sovereign powers would be repatriated. Another junked pledge, it seems the Cleglet doesn’t like it. So Home Secretary Theresa May has just capitulated to a demand from Brussels that in future any EU police force can demand, as of right and without a prima facie case, all the personal details it wants to know about any British citizen. That means you.
The Home Office of course is presided over by Permanent Secretary Sir David Normington. This was the devoted constitutionalist who was the moving spirit behind the KGBstyle raid on the private office, inside the Commons, of then shadow immigration spokesman Damian Green. His crime? Revealing the incompetence of the Home Office.
So we know where Sir David stands on the issues of power and citizens’ rights. Straight out of Kafka.
5. And we were told flatly that after 13 years of Labour idleness a start would be made on a new generation of nuclear power stations, the only conceivable way of providing enough electricity when in a very few years our worn-out generation of oil, coal, gas and nuclear power plants pack up. Now that will not happen because EU and eco-freak Chris Huhne doesn’t like nuclear.
He prefers windmills and only windmills despite proof they give us under two per cent of what we need. Our coalition Government? The score so far? Quangos, mandarins, Brussels, political correctness and the Lib Dems...10. Lifelong Conservative voters...0. How long will this litany of abasement go on? Back to Chou En-Lai, it’s too early to tell.
But for the moment the tsunami of sycophancy from most of the media goes on unabated.
HOW IS THE COALITION DOING SO FAR? RUBBISH!
04.08.10, 5:44pm
IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT YOU PROMISED CAMERON ,YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED.
THE ELECTORATE WILL NOT BE FOBBED OFF, AND WILL BE UNFORGIVING.
VERY DISAPPOINTING PERFORMANCE SO FAR, IF YOU CAN'T SORT IT THE B.N.P. WILL.
REGARDS ......................WASP
• Posted by: WASP • Report Comment
HALF-BAKED
03.08.10, 10:49am
Even if the Tories delivered on all their pledges, we would still have mass unemployment and high immigration in this country. Their promises at best were half-baked in comparison with what this country actually needs.
Britain will continue to be riven with crime and poverty until we stop voting LibLabCon and give someone with some guts a chance.
• Posted by: Peltast • Report Comment
COALITION
01.08.10, 10:18pm
There but for a handful of votes went the last chance to pull Britain back from the brink. What will historians make of it long after we are gone? Mad Max is coming.
• Posted by: grj • Report Comment
HOW IS THE COALITION DOING SOB FAR?
01.08.10, 12:25pm
As a lifelong Conservative voter (so far), I fully agree with Frederick Forsyth on all five points. However, dear Frederick, you sadly omitted point no.6 - a crucial one!
What happened to David Cameron's repeated pre-election pledge to re-write the constantly and gratuitously misused and abused Human Rights Act??? I seem to remember something called Bill of Rights. What happened??? Siddenly nobody even mentions it, let alone does anything about it!
Pray tell us what you think, dear Frederick and thank you for saying mostly everything I say in my circle of fellow conservatives!
• Posted by: Giorgy12 • Report Comment
DO WHAT IT TAKES
31.07.10, 1:54pm
Freddie, politicians in general will say and do anything to get elected. Once in power they will do and say anything that will keep them in power.
I am sure that if a poll showed that turfing grannies onto the street and eliminating their pensions would guarantee an election victory, most politicians would support that policy.
Service to country and doing what is right is a long discarded quaint notion.
• Posted by: kennymac825 • Report Comment
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