Don’t you find its very reassuring that even in these extraordinary times of financial and economic turmoil, while our businesses are struggling to survive and our young people are desperate to find jobs that we can still find time to worry about the bigger picture?
So far we have dedicated a whole weekend worrying about the stressful working environment of a few people in 10 Downing Street. No doubt this subject will consume several more days of high level disruption until we flock to some other distraction that can help us avoid reality.
I listened last night to the inane headline that we are going to stop early release of prisoners supposedly because a small number of them had committed new crimes in the 18 days they would otherwise have spent in prison. Surely we can understand that this would have happened 18 days later in almost every case, nothing has changed. It’s all just another distraction we can use to avoid dealing with the big issues. If we must be distracted from reality please let’s do it with some positive stuff we can feel good about.
Even better lets propose some of our own solutions if there is anybody listening. For instance since most countries for obvious reasons don’t want to send their own soldiers to “our” war zones why can’t they just lend us some helicopters. Is it that difficult to find ideas?