Bonfire of the Envies

There has been a festival of beating up on Mr Hester at the RBS's bonus that the last Labour government authorised.

Since much of left wing politics is based on the unjustifiable optimism of lefties brains combined with their rejection of God and all morality ( though they are too igniorant to realise it ) they can be forgiven for using envy in the way little Red Ed has been doing.

Nick Clegg is a prize hypocrite since he has enjoyed his tax free EU salary and benefits and is fabulously wealthy by most of our standards and will go on to be rewarded for selling his countrymen out to his EU masters for the rest of his life.

Mayor Bojo is a chump for playing the envy card, and his willingness to sell out principles for expediency will have been noted in certain circles.

But the prize for stupidity and moral cowardice goes to David Cameron. Its the prime minsters job, often, to tell the public and voters what they don't want to hear. In doing so he ( but lets face it only she in living memory ) is doing their duty to the nation. David Cameron has failed to spell the facts of life out to an indulgged electroate. Instead modernising by allowing the politics of envy to go unchallanged ( must have played well with the focus groups ).

In addition with have the dangerous idea that the rich should pay for the state so that those who benefit from it most don't have to. The problem with this should be obvious to any conservative- you create a left voting majority which is suicidally committed to economic narcissism in the name of greed and envy ( carefully rapped up with words like investment, fairness, free etc ).

David Cameron should have been explaining why just taxing the rich more to tax those who benefit less won't work, but instead the siren voices of the modernisers and focus groups have called him onto the wrecking rocks of socialism.

He's becoming Ted Heath - it will take 15 years to sort this mess out.

Update: Hester has capitulated and the anti-Capitalist mob can chalk up another self inflicted injury on the UK. ( Remember Hester earned that bonus by saving us vastly more money - but when your committed to making everyone poor and miserable that's hardly going to stop the left, and the weak weak weak Ted Heath moderniser fan club who are so scared of them. )

Cameron's Ted Heath moment approaches and the country should hold its breath

There are manoeuvres to try to get the Coalition to back away from the necessary austerity. There are reports of a Treasury plan B involving putting some cuts back ( I wonder if that isn't always the case and in many ways it would be worrying if the Treasury didn't always develop alternative scenarios - but they are great for leaking ).

Chris Huhne has given what might be an ill advised interview ( though in politics you can never be sure it isn't the intention ).

The press contains warning about the international situation, and the friction of unintended consequences of any change in taxation and hand outs has already cause much consternation ( though mostly amongst journalists who are in the main group impacted ).

So here we are - apparently Ted Heath knew the Unions had to be dealt with in the 70's, but he lacked the nerve and frankly cunning of Lady Thatcher in carrying out the needed reforms to save the country from left wing destitution.

We all know the debt has to be brought back under control and repaid. But if David Cameron flinches now then it will be another Conservative leader in a decades time who has to confront the same problem - after deadbeat #RedEd and his shallow talent pool shadow cabinet have made things far worse.

So Dave - what's it going to be ?

Further: For those interested in the full horror of our situation read Watt Tyler here.

Gordon Brown is the new Ted Heath !

Just watching this weeks Blogger TV from 18DS - as I finish of the work for this week.

On at least two occasions Paul Burgin ( Mars Hill blog ) has likened Gordon Brown to Ted Heath, and he gives the impression to me of this being a good thing. Iain Dale tries to spell out why the Conservatives are rubbing our hands with glee at the thought of Gordon Brown as the next leader of the opposition Labour party - but Paul disagrees.

All I can say is keep up the good work Paul ;-)

Words are now failing me .... (ok that happens a lot Ian here you saying)

PS Paul always strikes me as a good person and I don't mean to be cruel here. Though I find his Christian Socialism to be a contradiction in terms, its a circle he no doubt honestly believes he can square.