These are turbulent times. Governments are tottering. There are demonstrators in the streets. Hospitals are overflowing. Regimes are lashing out all over the shop. The students are in turmoil.No, I’m not referring to the Middle East. I mean here, the UK. No wonder David Cameron visited Egypt this week. He probably went to find out where that Mubarak leader went wrong so he doesn’t make the same mistakes. Well, here’s my advice.First of all, stick to your guns, otherwise you look like your backbone is made of jelly, but give in where you’re know you’re on to a hiding to nothing, like selling off all the forests or shutting libraries. Second, divert your opponents’ attention by giving them something else to get mad at. The European Court of Human Rights is a good example, stuffed with overpaid time-wasters sticking their noses into our affairs.Cameron’s on the ball telling that so-called court to sling its hook. Councils are another target. Full of overpaid time-wasters shuffling paper. You can bet that even if they shut down every service, the town halls would still be standing packed with suits and pile carpets and free staff car parking, while the rest of us are left to man our own libraries and run meals-on-wheels in our spare time on top of our day jobs, even though we’re taxed to the hilt.Councils are a soft target. And, by the time the public have vented their spleen at lazy bureaucrats, they’ve forgotten why they were so mad with the Government in the first place.Easy. I should be a politician…
