We Are Told Competition Improves Service And Value For Money So Why Does It Not Happen In Governments?

We are always being told that competition improves the service we receive whilst reducing the price we pay but having suffered many years of government of different parties who swop places every now and again can we really say competition has improved the quality of service we get.

We are currently drowning in debt, the countries gold reserves have been sold off by Gordon Brown at a very cheap price. Where is the money now Gordon? We would like to use it to clear some of the debts now.

Nearly all the businesses the government were supposed to manage on our behalf were sold off by Maggie Thatchers Tories. Where is the money we got for the electricity boards, the Telephone part of the Post Office, British Airways, British Gas, all the airports, the railways? Enormous amounts of money. We need the money now so what have our governments been doing with it? Where are all the billions made from North Sea Oil? Where has all the money gone?

We have a nearly bankrupt country that has been selling off the contents of the attic, the garage, the garden shed. We have now had Gordon Brown selling off the contents of our bank accounts when he sold the gold and all we have left is the TV (Post Office) and the sofa (Dartford Crossing) and what will happen when they are gone? The country is in a mess. We are told that life over the next few years is going to be very tough indeed.

I watched a speech from Gordon Brown this morning. All he seemed to be talking about was all the money he planned to spend on a dozen different services. They may be valuable and worthwhile services but where will the money come from?

Everybody knows there are going to be big cuts in public spending ahead whichever party gets elected. Let me reword that. There are going to be enormous cuts in Public spending. We all know they are coming but nobody is prepared to talk about it. The cuts will probably be the most significant actions of the next parliament but nobody will talk about how they will cut back and who will suffer. The contents of the manifestos will seem almost unimportant compared to the effects of the cuts on the economy and on peoples lifestyles.

It may be that the parties have not yet decided exactly where the knife will fall or it may be they simply don’t know how they can make the savings.

The Tory governments sold off all the nationalised companies that we owned, Labour sold our gold reserves and the hospitals. Those companies were capable of generating profits and income for the treasury or there would not have been any buyers. If the government were capable of running a business properly our taxbills would be much lower, but they are gone forever now. Both Tories and Labour know they are incapable of running a business at a profit so they sell them off. Will someone explain to me why, when they think the only way to run a business is to sell it off, I should trust them with running the country?

Having converted those businesses into cash, instead of investing the proceeds for long term benefit they spend the money and then bathe in the glory of their ‘achievements’ in frittering away parts of the national treasure chest.

If you or I were to run our home budgets like this we would be bankrupt in no time. Sell your investments and spend the money on showing off to your mates. Well, they did and the country is near to bankruptcy, that was a surprise wasn’t it. So I say to both the Tories and Labour. How has competition between your two parties helped the country improve? Where is our money? We need it now.

There was apparently, a trial carried out to see if a monkey with a pin could do better at picking profitable stocks and shares than professional stock investors and the result was that the monkey did as well as most financial experts and better than many. I suspect that if we had, had a monkey running the country for the last 40 years we would be little worse off than we are now. We might even be doing a lot better.

In the last forty years I have watched as governments of different colours have made the most of the discredited First Past The Post electoral system. They have taken their turns at government and used the unjustified authority the system provides to do what they think is best for the party rather than caring about what is best for the whole nation. They have run our once proud country into the ground and left us penniless as they took turns trying to figure out how to run a country and failing.

They have sold off all our assets and spent all the proceeds. We have nothing left to show for it and now we are left with a debt that our grandchildren may still be paying, I think it is safe to say they have both failed.

Competition has not improved the service we get from our government or the value for money because it has not been real competition. Political competition has been a two horse race for years. It has given us corrupt politicians who think they are entitled to improve their lives at the expense of the taxpayer because while they supported the party the party supported them. There was no reason for scrutiny because government represented the party, not the electorate.

It has given us Political parties who would rather see the other lot get in than to see a genuine, representative government of the people. They know it will be their turn soon so why would they care.

A plague on both their houses. Vote for the monkey, it can hardly be any worse.