No posts?

   Someone asked me why I hadn't posted for some time. There are two reasons, the first of which was that I felt I was getting repetetive  the other was that my right shoulder muscle was hurting and typing was painful.  When I finally went to a physiotherapist, on the NHS, it was the trapezius muscle that was the cause of the pain. I know have some exercises to do and that definitely  helps. What I could not understand was that this was also causing me to have severe headaches. But apparently the muscle goes to the top of head so cutting down the amount of typing helped. I am sure that the minor ailments of an ageing man are not really of much interest except to himself.

  This is a thought that goes back to me brother when the new head of the Bank of England was appointed. Mr Osborne said that there were no Brits good enough for the job. Is this the reason why our government is so bad? There are no Brits who are good enough for the job. This is certainly true in football, how many English Premier footballers and managers are English, after all it is the English Premier league. As an aside how many of the English premier league clobs are even owned by Brits?

   Compare this with House of Commons, 600+ Brits and we have to find among this motley crew someone good enough, for example, to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. What are the odds of finding someone good enough amongst them. Would Mr Osborne appoint himself to the job or would he argue that there are just are not enough people of the right quality in Parliament.

  Perhaps we need more people in Parliament rather than less as Mr Cameron is suggesting.  Perhaps we should double the number of MP's in the the hope that with 1300 we might find one or two who would make competent ministers. After all when we choose our Member of Parliament do we vote for them on the basis that they would be a good minister. We could even go further and propose that job of MP's is to choose ministers and then make sure they do a good job. It is interesting to observe that Margaret Hodge is brilliant as Chair of the Public Accounts committee holding various government and agencies to account. Was she as good as a minister. The problem is that nothing in our methods of selecting MP's that guarantees their competence at anything other than convincing to local party faithful that they are one of us.

  What we need is more immigration so we can have competent ministers just like Mr Osborne wants to run the Bank of England, we obviously need them to run the country. Do we have your support Mr Osborne.