I don't like m'blog to be used as a soapbox for any trenchant views I may fleetingly hold, but I've got my ire up over a couple of things this last few days, so I just need to let off steam.
IT'S TOUGH ON THE HUSTINGS
It appears that Italian leader, Silvio Berlusconi, has been injured after some bloke threw something at him in Milan.
Now, I'm not one to condone violence, but frankly I'm surprised no one's had a go at him before. In Berlusconi we see the archetype European politician, a man whose "moral compass" is seriously out of whack and who holds in contempt the democratic process and his people.
Berlusconi, the longest serving EU leader, is a close personal friend of T Blair Esq, a consort of prostitutes and minors (according to his estranged wife, who seems to have had enough of him); a predatory male with an extensive record of criminal allegations, including mafia collusion, false accounting, tax fraud, corruption and bribery of police officers and judges,
He is currently on trial for corruption, again, (and lest we forget, his web extends into the nether regions of New Labour via Tessa Jowell and her estranged husband, David Mills) although he has a track record of making sure laws are conveniently passed DURING his trials making his misdemeanours legal. Also worthy of note Sarkozy has acted for Berlusconi; how very cosy.
Frankly he was lucky it was just a model of Milan Cathedral, and not the real thing. The lesson here is what any school child learns - if you keep taking the piss, sooner or later someone will eventually come up and whack you.
YOUTH, ACTUALLY STUDENT, UNEMPLOYMENT
Apparently this is one of the biggest issues facing the country today, notwithstanding the fact that I would have thought that the people we ought to be most worried about are family men and women, with mortgages, kids to feed, clothe and house who have been paying taxes through the nose to support New Labour's construction of its vast and spectacularly inefficient client state, now with its tentacles firmly embedded in every part of our lives, weighing down the country and plunging us towards insolvency.
In defence of the motion, the BBC this morning wheeled out a suffering student, who, having completed his Masters last summer was having trouble finding work. As the interview progressed however, it emerged that this bleeding heart had been gainfully employed after gaining his degree and had decided to give his job up to pursue his Masters. To add a slightly surreal bent to the proceedings, it emerged that his MA is in Politics and that he felt he really ought to be employed by the Public Sector, swanning his way around the world at my expense pontificating on Global Climate Change. He honestly felt that he should be in wonderful Copenhagen (thus proving in passing that climate change has little to do with science and everything to do with politics).
How does someone get this kind of sense of entitlement ? The arrogance of the chap was breathtaking. Really, you couldn’t make it up.
I was pleased to learn however, that he felt that his MA had made him a much more rounded person of intrinsic value to society (and Lord knows, more Politics Major’s are JUST the kind of thing the country needs right now),and that he had learnt a lot.
Maybe, but there’s a couple more lessons for him and anyone else moaning about the lack of opportunity:-
1). Don’t give up your job and expect the rest of us to turn round 3 years later with a leg up into a comfy public sector sinecure at my expense
2). It's tough for everyone to find work, not just students, so stop moaning and get on with it.
2). Ask yourself if your Country is best served by another one of you clogging up the arteries of State
Happy Xmas. Normal service will be resumed shortly. :-)
