I must be having a grumpy old day … perhaps its being away from home that does it …

It has seemed to me, as an internal rant, for some time that I am tired of MPs playing politics rather than doing government …

If I, or any employee of a company, spent the time that they were paid to do their job in doing another self-serving job of their own then they would, I’m sure, soon find themselves unemployed. Yet MPs, paid to take part in the governance of this country and the care of their constituencies, seem to spend an inrodinate amount of time on being political rather than being good at the jobs for which we pay them!

Can it really be the case that everything one party says is really as wrong as the otehr parties make out? Surely, even if only under the rules of chance, it must happen sometimes that when one party says something the others go “actually that’s not a half bad idea, we could go with that” – but do we ever hear them say that? No, its either “too little too late” (what the hell does that mean!), a “u turn” of some sort, a stolen idea of someone elses or “pure madness” … that simply doesn’t make sense …

So I am tired of this behaviour and of the media’s insistence that all political reporting is conflict driven … Get on and do your jobs or get out!

Oh and I may end up voting for the least worst this time – as will a lot of others I suspect .. but those slippery politicians will claim that we support them, indeed they’ll claim that we fully back everything in their (unread) manifestos, even that crazy idea in small print at the bottom of page 146.

Why don’t I believe in politicians? Because they don’t believe in me … I am an adult who pays plenty of tax to support them and votes even when I think it may be futile … yet they treat me like an idiot. I have never stretched my expense claims, in fact I underclaim to avoid any risk of over claiming – not bright but honest.

Perhaps we need a “Fantasy Cabinet” game … mine would contain people of drive, intelligence, practicality and conviction regardless of whether I fully agreed with their ideas. No-one would be excluded because they’d had an affair, were gay or had problems (some of our finest have had alcohol or mental health issues!) …

Ho hum ….