[P7_TOM]

You have to ask yourself if a great number of politicians, of any stripe, are not just becoming glove puppets for the mandarins. Seriously, look and listen to Cash – semi illiterate reading of whatever the ‘crats decide need to be said. It’s OK, I suppose if whoever is doing the ‘reading’ can articulate the words and get the emphasis on the ‘right’ words, then at least we could all be lulled into a sense of believing that the words were those of the speaker, not the ‘crat sitting behind. But as it stands, the back room boys may as well hire in a computer generated word and phrase speaker – like the ATIS thingamajig to speak the words. Then we could save a motza – just cut out the expensive mouthpiece.

Can you imagine the KPI bonus for removing the expense of having a parliament. 1984?