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Blair Sunday, not quite Brown Tuesday |
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Written by Austin Mitchell
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27 November 2007 |
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Sunday. Watched Blair`s Apologia Pro Disaster Suaon BBC. Soft questioning by David Aaronovitch (son of Sam) but Blair came across as absolutely right in his terms, however wrong in the long view. The real problem is why weren`t the Cabinet, the Party and Parliament able to restrain him? Why did no one warn of the mess we’d make? Why is power so centralised that one man was able to create such a disaster and feel virtuous and right to do so?
For Sale: Two CDs sent me anonymously in a TNT jiffy bag. Sounds like Radiohead to me. Offers?
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It`s no wonder Revenue and Customs are in a mess. Merger of Revenue and Customs. Large job losses and redundancies. Morale disastrous. Such a mean drive for economy HMRC wouldn`t even spare the peanuts necessary to take out all the data about bank accounts the Audit Office didn`t want. I wouldn’t pay for recorded delivery.
Could be sabotage but more likely just organisational chaos. Time we stopped these Gershon economy drives to cut numbers and save money each year.
they`ve already led to the monster mess in the rural Payments Agency cutting staff at the same time as it implemented the most complex payments scheme and forced to hire large numbers of inexperienced staff to do it.
The same chaos is building up everywhere though nowhere with such disastrous results.
Cut the cuts.
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Welcome home, Gordon. Don`t say anything like “Crisis What Crisis”. But don`t get nattered by it all either. The punditieri have been longing for Labour slip-ups after having to praise us for so long. It`s not a tipping point. Just a retour à normal. Stay serious. Show concern but not panic. Sit it out. There`s worse to come on the economy but face that when it comes. |
