Politics is Drifting !

Politics is drifting

Those of us who follow politics are perhaps lamenting that it is all drift now and no excitement!

Whilst the majority of us are pleased that we now have a government with a working majority we no longer wake up in anticipation of unexpected events to make the day interesting

Even the tweeters seem down hearted and I suspect the number of tweets are well down>mine are!

This weekend we have read about the civil service being put in their place because they have become over powerful in the last decade due to either coalition government or unmanageable majorities

Then we see MSM demanding that the PM should be out and about with his mop whilst the Nation just expects him to run the country, keeping in touch via his Ministers who ply their trade> electorate only want to see a lot of their PM during elections!

And of course the Labour Leadership election which catches the imagination of no one!

As a septuagenarian I have seen this scenario three times!

First post 1966 victory by Wilson when exactly the same happened and Wilson got rid of civil servants indoctrinated by the Tories [after 1966 win he was not powerful to do that]. Wilson got on running the country and the Opposition [Tories] were irrelevant

Then post 1979 when Thatcher did exactly the same and the Opposition [Labour]was irrelevant to be followed by Blair carrying on in the same way after 1997

So our PM personally known as Boris does exactly the same now and why not!

 On each occasion there were advisers attacked by MSM and now it is the turn of Cummings to take the flack> MSM London bubble will never forgive him for his work during the referendum which eventually took us out of their beloved EU!

I suspect that many of electorate are bored stiff with MSM hate of Cummings and after seeing Boris on the hustings, first to become Tory Leader and PM , and then to win a landslide , they just laugh when BBC Newsnight, R4 or any other media say that Cummings is running the country

Read one interesting comment that Boris and No 10 are happy with this as Cummings takes all the flack and Boris is the good guy ! although some BBC people still call him all the bad names under the sun!!.....and Cummings has broad shoulders

I should have mentioned that Boris is now criticised for demanding briefings to be no longer that 4 x A4 pages > one of the long standing tactics of civil servants, at national and local level, of managing their political masters is to bog them down in detail!

After the last decade of interesting politics we are now in a decade of boring politics  whilst the government gets on with implementing it’s Manifesto >which is exactly what the electorate want so that they can get on with enjoying the Roaring Twenties Mk2 !!