Conservative Party: why no principles?

From a Conservative Party email:

'This is not the Iraq Inquiry the nation wanted

William Hague has warned that the Iraq War Inquiry announced this week by Sir John Chilcot will not be "the inquiry that the nation wanted to see".

The Shadow Foreign Secretary condemned the "worrying new caveat" that sessions will be held in private not just when national security is concerned, but also when there is a need for candour.

He stressed, "If there are difficult truths to be told they should be told in the light of day, not behind closed doors."'

Can you say unprincipled shit-for-brains?

The Conservative Party were FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ. They voted for it on all possible occasions. They supported Tony Blair against his own party. If there are difficult truths to be told, how about 'you supported the war on all occasions'? Is that a difficult one for you to own up to?

The people who want an inquiry into the war have already made up their minds what its conclusions will be. Their stiflingly limited knowledge of history, their laserlike focus on a few trivial details and their cold war-hangover hatred of Britain and the United States mean that for them an inquiry is simply a formality to rubber-stamp their opinions. How dare the United States and Britain squash an enemy like an over-ripe grape? How dare they stride manfully about the world exerting power? They should be grovelling like frightened girls in the dirt, apologising for their very existence, like Obama and Hillary do.

The educated, knowledgeable, moral part of the nation which supported the war never needed an enquiry. What would it enquire into? Why spend the money? We know why the war was fought. We needed to conclude business unfinished by 'realists' Clown Colin Powell and G H W Bush. The Iraqis needed someone in charge of thier strategically pivotal nation who wasn't an aggressive psychopath. See how easy that is to explain David/William/Oliver?

So why all this pathetic half-assed pretending that you are actually principled critics of the Iraq intervention? When are we going to be governed by grown-ups?

Public Spending

'The Conservatives said he had been working from Labour's own figures from the last Budget but the prime minister accused the Tories of planning "savage" public spending cuts.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8104606.stm

Why is government spending called Public Spending? It is called the latter to distract from who is doing the spending. The British government is composed of a few dozen cabinet ministers. Those ministers individually and collectively decide how 557 Billion pounds of our money will be spent each year. Think about that for a few moments. Five hundred and fifty seven billion pounds that you and I will not get to spend. We will not get to decide on how it is spent either- those government ministers, chosen personally by the prime minister of the day rather than say elected by you, WILL decide.

The right name for spending our 557 billion pounds is Government Spending.

Calling things by their Right Name

It is always useful to call things by their right name. Societies that succeed do not deal in euphemism, mis-naming and mis-labelling. Those practises lead to bad decision making, a distorted view of life and events, and eventually to the demise of that society.

The purpose of this blog is to correct the names given to things in public life which are consistently mis-named. If you have something you feel is mis-named in the public discourse, feel free to post them in the comments, or submit your own correction.