Cameron is no better than Miliband

I have just read a newspaper comment about Ed Miliband.  I don't need to supply a link, because there isn't enough substance in it to make that worthwhile.  Basically, the government has delivered its budget, which contains certain measures which the press consider to be laudable - and let's face it, it is highly unlikely that there would be absolutely nothing good to say about it.

So far as I can make out though, the only really good thing that the press can find in the budget is the fact that the government is allowing pensioners to take control of their own pensions.  Some press commentators are pointing to recent falls in the level of unemployment as evidence of the government delivering, but then consider this news item about fifteen hundred people chasing just forty jobs.

If my arithmetic is correct, then each one has just under a three percent chance of success.  Anyone who thinks that unemployment is caused by people not wanting to work should consider that these forty jobs are poorly paid supermarket jobs, and that nearly forty people are chasing each vacancy.

Meanwhile the government continues to hurl billions of pounds of our money each year at overseas aid, which basically means taking money from the British public and putting it into Swiss bank accounts.  Anyone who has any doubts on this matter should reflect upon the fact that I am quoting Imran Khan.

If it is a good idea for British people to control their own pensions, then why can we not also be trusted to control our own charitable giving?  If Cameron's government of lunatics were to abolish overseas aid, then they could give the money saved back to the people in tax cuts.  We could then decide for ourselves how much of our money we want to give to charity to help develop the third world, and could even choose which charities - if any - will benefit from our donated money.

The national press are absolutely correct when they deride Ed Miliband as an incompetent politician.  They are wrong however if they suggest that David Cameron is any better.  David Cameron is a clown, and I confidently expect that he will be seeking a change of career after the next general election.

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