Evening,
I see that Chairman Brown has made an 'unheralded trip' to Afghanistan, on the same day that four Royal Marine Troopers are confirmed to have died whilst on patrol in Helmand Province. Obviously, it goes without saying that my condolences goes to the family and friends to those soldiers lost fighting what they have been told is a just cause - and it was for about six weeks, and we've been there now for the past seven years on orders of Uncle Sam and God himself, so it seems.
Why was it 'unscheduled'? Why should it be 'unscheduled'. Really, someone not knowing the ins and outs of this would think that these deaths were arranged to make Chairman Brown's point that bit more pertinent, but obviously they were not. Perhaps it is the past decade of ridiculous spinning that this government has indulged in, which has made me and others who are political thinkers that bit more distrustful of government in general - and the civil service by extension. The politicisation of the civil service in itself is concerning, such as the media manipulation that A. Campbell indulged in, before it cost him, in the aftermath of the David Kelly Inquiry.
Surely, at a time where the country economic situation is getting grimmer and grimmer, now is the time for the spinning and general bullshit to stop. I say this, after the Prime Minister was involved in a spin row after the chief of the statistics authority accused ministers of massaging knife crime figures for their own political purposes. Such acts like these are not going to help us get Labour that historical fourth term in office. In fact, if the government continues along this deeply concerning whim, then I predict that Labour will not just lose, but we would be reduced to a rump within this country - concentrated within the heartlands of Northern England, certain boroughs in London and the former minefields of South Wales, and that is if we are lucky.
It needs to stop and it needs to stop now.
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