This and That and Then Some

Nothing to smile about

Gordon Brown must be the most hated man in the UK at the moment- we have house prices dropping sharply, inflation increasing, more people out of work, the credit crunch and lots of other bad news in areas that the media just loves to jump on.

I must be in a tiny minority, but I actually think he is by far the best man to be running the UK. He is incredibly well educated, has proved time and time again that he entered politics for the right reasons and easily demonstrates the ability to deal with multiple issues when needed. The media in the UK is quite frankly a joke at the moment- there have always been newspapers like The Daily Mail which slants every possible news item into a right wing slamming of anyone who appears to be even remotely liberal. It revels in the number of people coming to the UK from abroad and plays into the basic human instinct of protecting one’s homeland. It cares not that we need many of these people from abroad and has continually failed to produce a ‘news’paper worth reading because it loves to add it’s own ‘distateful’ opinion to every item.

The BBC (which many people call left wing, probably correctly) is no better in it’s ceaseless quest to promote bad news. When the FT drops 200 points in a day the world is coming to an end, when it creeps back up over the next 2 days to a level higher than before it dropped we see nothing from the BBC at all. Petrol prices rise and all hell breaks lose- they drop back down and not a word! No matter what the story, if it is centered around the UK economy the BBC is at the forefront of skewing the news over time to paint a much more negative picture than reality shows.

Some of the issues affecting people in the UK are of course government created such as the removal of the 10p tax (which labour brought in), the dreadful state of dentistry in this country and many other issues, but there are some highlights as well. The NHS as a whole performs better now than ever before, the UK economy is still better placed than almost all other major western countries and the help given to new parents has grown substantially in just a few years.

No matter what happens, Mr Browm will almost certainly lose his job at the next election (probably not before) and David Cameron will be our next Prime Minister- does anyone with a brain really think he will do a better job!