It was s'posed to be so eeeeasy
Philip over at The Curmudgeon is reminding his readers that they were warned.
It seems Gordon Brown has just announced that there is “no easy solution” to the problem of care for the elderly. Because, of course, up until now we’ve all assumed that there was. There’s an easy solution to the problem of care for the elderly, we all thought, and any minute now Gordon Brown will press that button on his command console, labelled “solve”, and all will be well.
I do love that “no easy solution” line. As if running a nation and dealing with the myriad problems that face it, is somehow supposed to be easy. Of course it’s not bloody easy! We don’t need politicians to tell us that. We already know that.
What’s needed is for someone to work out a difficult solution, and then successfully implement it. And if you’re incapable of that, then you have no goddamn business standing for election. Get the fuck out of office and give someone competent a go. Someone who isn’t scared of difficult problems and doesn’t wander off to sulk in a corner because they thought it was going to be easy.
Fracking gits, the whole sorry lot of them.
The thing is, Jim, I wonder if this bunch only realised quite recently that there are ‘no easy solutions’. We are, after all, talking about a government who fervently believed that cluster munitions were a fundamental building block of representative democracy.
Oh, and it’s ‘goram’ not ‘fracking’ this week.
May 14th, 2008 | 10:22am
by Justin
I think no easy solutions is an intimate relative of sacrifices will have to be made. They’re both political jargon for bend over, muggins, here it comes.
May 14th, 2008 | 11:46am
by Philip
of course, ‘no easy solutions’ is just another way of saying ‘you’re fucked matey’
May 19th, 2008 | 11:24am
by michael greenwell
Maggie Thatcher would have come up with an easy solution like … Community Care.
Old Labour the issue wouldn’t have been raised, just that taxes would have gone up another 10p in the pound.
I however prefer a nutritional answer ……… Soylent Green
May 21st, 2008 | 4:54am
by Alan Rowe