Let’s All Work Together, You Moaning Bastards

Government advisor Matthew Taylor has come out with a bleating attack on citizen’s use of the internet today, accusing users of making “incommensurate demands” on politicians via “hostile” blogs and other means.

A lot of the points he makes would hold water, were they not coming from a man representing a government who have taken us to a catastrophic war no-one wanted and who plan to spend billions tagging and branding us all like cattle via their idiotic ID card scheme.

He accuses the British public of acting like “teenagers” – making demands without being prepared to help in the process of change. That view may have some validity as part of a debate about a complaint culture, but firstly, why are we obliged to help highly paid politicos do their jobs for them? I don’t see Tony Blair hefting any of my workload.

More importantly it exposes the political classes true view of the people they seek to govern, that we are seen as nothing more than bleating children who should just stop whining and let our betters get on with tackling things we don’t really understand.

We are somehow infatised in comparison to politicians, manipulated by the media, unable to take care of ourselves without the aid of our politicians who understand our “real” needs even if we do not.

I’m personally sick of this Government’s “…ask not what you can do” bullshit. They don’t consider for a second that people are unhappy with them because they have stuttered from one calamity to another since taking office. Their triumphs have been utterly engulfed by their disasters and the reason that people view politicians as mendacious and venal is because there is amble proof to support the view.

But no, we just don’t understand the “real trade-offs politicians face”. We all just want everything we want now and are incapable of the kind of joined up thinking required to see the real picture, which is that the Government are brilliant and are doing a tremendous job. What patronising crap.

I think people are fully capable of understanding that new housing has to go somewhere, but are still entitled to have concerns about vast expansions of stock in their area. The general public are fully aware that the things we want actually cost money, but they are fed up seeing it pissed away on a racist crusade and a daft idea about logging pictures of the entire populations eyeballs. It is our fucking money afterall, a fact politicans always seem to forget.

Taylor suggests government has to "develop new forms of consultation and engagement that are deliberative in their form and trust citizens to get to the heart of the difficult trade-offs involved."

But in the absence of any real ideas along that line why not just accuse us all of being whiney and demanding with an impared capability for understanding, eh Matthew?