WHAT started out as my defence of a hard-working MP, in the face of smears from the local New Labour gang, has turned into a catalogue of its misdemeanours, and the puny responses from as far away as Chepstow! Please allow me one short 'rant' in reply to David Norman and in conclusion to my attacks on the government, as quite obviously they are no longer necessary.
Firstly I do not consider myself to be cleverer that anybody else. Secondly, I did not invent the catcall 'Gormless Gordon,' as I have seen it used to describe this incompetent gentleman in several newspapers – not tabloids – and financial magazines.
As for the scenario of the playground, is it not where GG prefers to be? Where else would you find his attitude of 'it wasn't me, Sir, it was him'? What did one MP say of our PM – that he was 'pathologically incapable of taking responsibility for anything.'
In my earlier letter, when talking about the banks' funding bonuses, I admit that, in using the word 'largely' I should have said 'primarily.' When confronted by any problem, a Labour administration always throws money in the very hands of the people who caused the problem in the first place, and not imposing any form of audit or accountability.
The banks have had three large injections of capital already, and are asking for yet another. But still firms are being starved of working funds, resulting in job losses, all because banks refuse to lend as there is no government proviso that they do so, and they are under no obligation to openly declare their levels of toxic debt.
As for hubris, well I go back to May 1, 1997, to the celebrations in Downing Street, when even Neil Kinnock was jigging about in his quaint Welsh way. Do you remember, Mr Norman, when a new squeaky-clean, whiter-than-white, sleaze-free government came to power? Plenty of hubris then, wasn't there? What is Corporal Jones's catchphrase? Oh yes, Mr Norman, there is plenty of hubris to come. Just wait until June 4. That is unless there is a bloodless coup by Joanna Lumley. – Cy Roberts, Coalway, Coleford.