What is it about politicians that just makes it impossible for them to admit that they are wrong? Amber Rudd is a typical example: there arises a matter which is basically indefensible, so they stall, prevaricate, take semantics and nuance to a higher level but in the end, always in the end, they end up telling a porky and then they have to go. They always go because of the porkies – never ever because they were enforcing unpopular/popular/bad/good policies!
Why don't they, straightaway e.g. in Amber Rudd's case, just put their hands up & say they/the government got it wrong, admit the truth (these days if you tell porkies, your untrustworthy self-righteous civil service department will soon fix it for you through the press) and will now put it right? But who are we to scoff? – Isn't the hardest thing for us always to give up a bad trade and we always vow to get it right next time and find it so difficult to admit truthfully to ourselves that we just ballsed it up?
On a wider governmental political note this latest episode is just a typical example of the amateurish and incompetent shenanigans of a government which is basically leaderless and doesn't know where it's going – its only wish is to stay in power. Its only redeeming feature is that it's a darn sight better than the likely alternative. Theresa May is just a Cameron retread – basically bereft of good ideas, influenced by the latest political flavour of the month, incapable of showing proper leadership and only interested in being Head Girl.
When oh! when for goodness sake will someone in this now lookalike Blairite Conservative party have the bottle to dump May and get someone in who is capable of giving some good strong decisive leadership? I'm not holding my breath!
As for Diane Abbott giving some worthwhile commentary or alternative solutions – you've got to be joking!
