First in a series of little rants. Enjoy.
David Cameron’s “Big Society” is a society where the people help run their local governments and can therefore tailor their needs. It means that people will vote for the actual party they want to vote for, rather than being torn between self-interest in their local government and their higher political ideals. Now, as political philosophy goes, great idea I guess, improving the voting system, making everything more democratic. But, as Mr Newton my old history teacher always reminded our set (particularly Jack Cohen, the Bertrand Russell of the modern age), politics has to be practically sound as well. That’s why democracy completely falls flat on its arse, but that’s a rant for another time. Anyway, let’s look at this from a more realistic perspective. What Cameron is doing is, for all intents and purposes, removing any party policy from mattering in local politics, as well as making the local politician a puppet to the outspoken in the community who decide to harass him into voicing their opinions. Which I guess is what English democracy needs. But then the local politician becomes redundant. So why pay him so much? Or at all? And surely the whole idea behind the big society, put into layman’s terms is just a typical childish tantrum, saying “Well if you’re going to make fun of me while I’m doing it, I’m not playing any more! You do it!”
The whole point of a local politician is to run things while OTHER PEOPLE DO THEIR JOBS. I mean getting everyone to pitch in and help is a lovely idea and all, but so is giving everyone a jet-pack so we can all fly around everywhere, but we all know that’s stupid. So what we’re doing is letting the guy who’s supposed to be running our borough relax while everyone else does the work. Which is basically like splitting the country up into tiny, really shit autocratic states, whose rulers are basically puppets who get paid to do nothing. So just scaled down version of England as it is now.
The professional politician, the expert, is being told to stand down so that the people he’s meant to be helping can basically do whatever they want. Now, does nobody see how imbecilic that is? How about we introduce this to all aspects of life? Instead of having doctors who actually know what they’re doing and are part of the NHS, we should just get everyone who wants to pitch in come round the hospitals and give the diagnoses on patients and tell the professional doctors what to prescribe them and which operations to perform on them! That’s a great idea!
Don’t think so? No shit.
(Also love how Big Society can be abbreviated to BS)
I had a tiring day at work and start early tomorrow…
…but…
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