The Mr Bigs in the criminal world, Political Post No2. - Feel free to disagree! Options

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Dateline: 15th May, 2006, London

Journal Entry No2 by TC

Today the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has been in the UK (a guest of London’s left-wing mayor, Ken Livingston). Various socialist / Marxist / leftie sympathisers were available to make comments such as “This shows there is a better way than capitalism - where fairer wealth-distribution is the way forward.” Of course, they didn’t mention how this wealth will be produced to satisfy the materialistic aspirations of the workers in this workers’ paradise, but no matter, Socialism had no satisfactory answer to that - hence its global collapse. Political topiary (pruning the social hedge-funds into a socialist Utopia) just assumed the hedge will continue to grow, no matter how many leaves and branches are chopped.

Mr Chavez did one public service, however - more Political Topiary actually - though of a different kind. He tried to cut the Bush down to size. This time, just the George W Bush, not the whole social fabric. (After all, no one is as good at wrecking a country’s whole social fabric as GW - several million Iraqis can’t be that wrong!). More specifically, Chavez dubbed Bush a “terrorist” for his Middle East policies. Many observers found this breathtakingly inaccurate and over-played. After all, there is no objective evidence that the US President has any Middle East policies whatsoever. Formulating policies would imply a considered, intelligent and strategic approach. There is severe doubt that Bush can actually say those words, let alone understand them and then to actually combine them into a political policy would seem to be really taking the joke too far.

The US has banned its exports of weapons to Venezuela, on the grounds that Mr Chavez’ government is not doing its bit in the global fight against terrorism. However, the Americans only have themselves to blame - The US Secret Service is just too good at protecting their President to allow a Venezuelan hit-squad anywhere near Bush.

And what of the UK’s ruling Labour Party? I’m not one to intrude on private grief yet… and yet… the stunningly bad local election results have had amazing ramifications in national government. Blair is going to be tough on election defeats and tough on the causes of election defeats. Suicide is clearly his best option - but not the one a politician would choose. No, Blair is busy shafting everyone else. One-third of his Cabinet sacked or moved and now letters - veritable political shopping lists - sent to the new top ministers, setting-out what Tone wants them to do… their jobs might be a good idea, leaving Tone to go on holiday to Italy. (Well, he does less harm there).

Blair today has decided that the criminal justice system ain’t working. Yes, that IS thirteen years after Bambi (remember, he looked so young) promised to tackle crime, nine years after the song about it can only get better opened the big black door for Blair. So what has happened in the meantime…

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Oh yes! 43 new bills about crime passed through Parliament. Most impressive, Mr Blair… you have an awfully big pile of white paper there. All the better to confuse us with? What we need is the Andrex puppy to spend a good year dragging the toilet roll over that particular pile of crap. Even then, Blair would simply blame the dog. Don’t believe me? Today Blair blamed the political culture and (by implication) the judiciary for the mess we’re in. Now, if 43 laws cannot do something to change sentencing, early releases, clear-up rates, escalating violent crimes, massively increased gun use and so on… well it must be the judges’ fault. Stands to reason. Wrong. It’s your fault. Yours and mine - for keep electing such an impotent, headline-grabbing, spinning and useless government in the first place - but, worse still, in the second place - and, for heaven’s sake, why a third time? Mr Blair’s road to our Hell may be paved with good intentions but it needs the puppy-dispenser running behind to sort out the mess.

So, if you’re raped or murdered in your house tonight, or killed on the streets tomorrow who should your relatives blame? Well it depends. If in the UK, Blair. If it Iraq, Bush… but with excellent support from his more able and more experienced best international political friend.

Sorry, did you say blame the criminals? Pointless! Why they won’t take responsibility for their actions - it’s not politic.

TC.