This week I watched the news a lot. My job allows me the luxury of sitting in front of a screen with BBCnews24 on for 8 hours each day. Some find the TV a teasing irritation. For me it is pure bliss. I have always revelled in current affairs, the stormy mix of political rowdiness and media hyperbole. Recently I have watched the news; and the many people who pass comment, and realised that a lot is wrong with society.
The moral compass has gone. The expenses row still shadows Westminster like a unmoveable smog. The authority of MP's to protect the interests of their constituents has all but diminished this Summer. Have the media made more of this story than it is? I don't think so. If anything; it has not made the news enough; with the divorce of Peter and Jordan taking up just as many column inches.
How can we wish for a better society when the very people we entrust on the top branch of the United Kingdom have failed us so spectacularly? They have dishonestly swindled money out of the taxpayer for their own selfish gain. Much else is wrong with UK politics right now. The layers and layers of bureaucracy and target managers that plague and strangle the public sector are infuriating. The policeman who sits in his station filling out forms for hours on end instead of protecting his citizens on the street; the hospital manager who spends hours analysing his ward chart and pressuring his staff to "wheel out" patients within 4 hours, the teacher too afraid to take their class on a school trip in case an accident happens and they are sued, the full time care worker who could work 10 less hours and get the same pay due to the failed government benefits system, the soldier in Afghanistan who didn't have the right equipment to keep him safe. These are the people politics are failing. And in the 21st century world there are no excuses and no hiding places.
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