competent are MP’s?
The answer to that provocative question (the keyword being ‘provoke’ thoughts) is both highly revealing and an oh so obvious one at that!
Come the, every general election, 10’s of millions of UK people vote for one of their local political candidates to ‘represent’ (keep that word in mind) them as their local MP; Member of Parliament.
Still holding onto that word, ‘represent’? Good, because it will come into its own soon enough.
For now, look at this photo. It was either one of John Major’s cabinets or his last ever cabinet from 1996, two years after this now internet news magazine was published as a printed news magazine in January 1994:
The TRUTH followed up the cover image of issue 1 (see ‘How Thatcher’s government destroyed the British economy’) with a cartoon image that showed John Major and Norman Lamont as members of the ‘Mad hatter’s tea party’, and for good reason. This one:
Unemployment stood at 4,000,000 (4 million), 4 times what it was when Mrs Thatcher was elected PM.
Now, of course, I could simply hold that abysmal situation up as the perfect example of what any business adviser would deem a lesson in overwhelming and undeniable incompetency, something that, without a total shadow of a doubt, it irrefutably is, only there is more to it than that, despite the fact that, it in someway answers this article’s question.
The other aspect of the question’s answer is the more telling one. And it’s the one I will take you through 'step by step'.
As long ago as before 1994 and today, even, certain jobs required education, knowledge and or training and experience; more so today, in fact.
It’s worth noting, by way of an example, that the first people to practice law and medicine had no formal training whatsoever, compared with later years and now – both those jobs requiring college or university qualifications.
The same is also true of these jobs and titles: Teaching and education, health service including nursing, Police, business including finance, military and defence, commerce – overseas business (one that exports and imports goods), sport coaching and management, film music and entertainment, and office staff who, like me and scores of millions of others, are trained in the use of Microsoft Office and computers in general, from an office worker all the way up to the CEO (Chief Executive Officer).
Incidentally, the interesting point to note about all of those job types is this, they are also the job types of British Government Cabinet ministers: Education secretary, Health secretary, Home secretary (responsible for British law), Finance secretary (otherwise known as the Chancellor of the exchequer who, in 1994, was Norman Lamont), Defence secretary, Trade secretary (responsible for commerce), Heritage secretary (sport and entertainment), and lastly, and most importantly, Office administrator!
Other key jobs not mentioned, and which require training, include fire and ambulance; however, it is office administrator, or, more to the point, business administrator that is the key point of interest. An OA sits three posts above the following: office worker/clerical assistant, office assistant, admin assistant. All four of those job types need training and experience. Indeed, if you do not have experience in any of those jobs, you won’t be short listed for an interview, while that pretty much applies across the board, including something as simple as customer service (shop work, serving customers to you and me) as noted by the many apprentice training schemes that have sprung up in the past few years.
The big, huge, massive, phenomenal question is this, and it’s one you need to comprehend and not just consider when there is what is called a "cabinet re-shuffle". That is when the PM either moves a cabinet minister from one job type to another or removes a cabinet minister from their cabinet altogether.
What experience do they, any of them, have; in particular, and specifically that of being moved to a different cabinet position, something that is akin to someone changing their job criteria from say, customer service to office work and with no training let alone experience?
And the answer, of course, is a big fat ZERO! Bugger all, to quote the (Monty) Python’s from their "election night" sketch. I mean, how poignant is that!
In many respects (still holding that word I mentioned? Good!), voters, those who elected their ‘representative’, one who goes onto be a cabinet minister, are very much silent ‘shareholders’ in the company otherwise known as the British government. Sure, you voted for them, only it’s the way they treat your vote, a form of support, and, very much with dumb insolence, the silent ‘shareholder’ part.
Interestingly enough, you only need to look at an elected MP’s and elected US president’s background, for that matter, in that of Glenda Jackson and Ronald Reagan, both of who were actor’s, which pretty much says it all; they could act the part, only that was pretty much all they could do.
US president, Donald Trump, on the other hand, is a successful businessman and CEO, despite the fact that he has chaired over 12 seasons of ‘celebrity apprentice’; the UK one presided over by Lord Alan Sugar who was successful with micro computers and Tottenham Hotspur FC.
The thing is this. Put PM Boris Johnson and his cabinet on celebrity apprentice, and I pretty much guarantee you that, provided Lord sugar acts impartially, doesn’t go easy on them, he’ll be saying ‘You’re fired’ to more than one of them per show (prior to the final few rounds) and for the simple reason that, unlike trained nurses, doctors, teachers, lawyers and business commerce, they have no training whatsoever in their cabinet position.
In truth, the only thing they have any experience in, as this photo shows, is: arguing – an inability to either tell or ‘handle the truth’, something that Jack Nicholson exclaimed to Tom Cruise in the courtroom drama: ‘A Few Good Men’ – and lying.
As mentioned in another one of the TRUTH’s many articles, one example of lying is that of offering up as the truth, something that has not been verified as being true.
It’s also worth pointing out this quote made by Desmond Lynam on ‘Room 101’ from the late Conservative MP, Alan Clark’s Diary:
“What a rich, endlessly varied and exciting world, Politics is, for those who are addicted to it, and how inextricably woven are the different strands of greed, ambition and cowardice. No one’s motives are ‘pure’, and certainly not mine.”
A clear suggestion that MP’s are, in Alan Clark’s mind – and he, as an MP, should know only too well – by and large corrupt, a word synonymous with misleading, while they certainly mislead the British electorate as to their competency to do their job; that of ‘representing’ (that word again) YOU!
Finally, and back to the point about 4,000,000 (4 million) unemployed in 1994. It goes without saying that, before a business got to anywhere near the level of overall loss in finance of just 1,000,000 (1 million), a group of professionally trained and totally competent Administrators would have been called in, thereby removing from office the wholly incompetent administrators and other business executives, in this case, the British cabinet, and replaced them with those who, unlike MP’s who take up cabinet positions, are trained, qualified and, above all else, competent to do the job.
All things considered, that well-known phrase and saying about the ‘mushroom’ comes to mind:
“The Mushroom (more to the point, the British electorate). A vegetable that is kept in the dark and fed manure!”
Recommendations for your further reading pleasure and enlightenment: ‘How Thatcher’s government destroyed the British economy!’ ‘How the British governments – central and local – let down the homeless and unemployed!’ ‘How PM Boris Johnson put two insulting fingers up at the over 75’s!’ ‘Spot the brain cell!’ ‘Spot the difference – Tieneman square and Trafalgar square!’ ‘How the Police are a danger to the public over covid19!’
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