Bloody government

You all must have felt, as I have, that there is virtually no area of life, either personal or professional, in which government hasn't stuck its nasty little fingers.  In fact, I'll award a medal to anyone who can name anything in life that has escaped - and I bet you can't! 

 

Even if all government intercessions were beneficial I would object to being nannied - after all what sort of choice is that which is limited to the range of choices the government has decided you may choose amongst? 

But it's not all beneficial and it's not all fair or just or equitable or, let's face it, even sensible and bit by bit they have changed the kind of people we are and the lives we lead.  Is there anything now that we can do exactly as our forebears did it?  From being born to dying and at all points in between they have us tied down, restricted, and needing to meet their criteria to get permits. 

Whatever your job - paid, home or voluntary - you know the government has poked it's ignorant and meddling fingers in. 

Whatever your hobby - gardening, angling, botanising, bird watching - the government has laid down rules and regulations that prevent or hamper your doing it the way you want to do it. 

Whatever your home life - married, parent, single, co-habiting - the government is in there, telling you what you can and can't do - and usually how to do it too.  And getting it wrong.

 

And who are these people doing this to us?  They're no-one of any moment, no-one of any real account in their own persons.  They make life changing decisions affecting millions of people and before you know it, they're out of office, perhaps out of the HoC and back doing whatever they did before they sucked up enough to get into the Cabinet - being teachers, solicitors, advertising copywriters and farmers - and, worthy as those professions are, what makes one of their number any better at making decisions for us than we would be at making them ourselves?  I've met a great many teachers with political aspirations whom I wouldn't trust to take my dog for a walk without getting her or themselves lost or run over - and solicitors - well, don't start me off!  :O)

 

Members of Government should be shot on sight.