I just do not get it.
There are thousands of government departments that control everything in this country, there are millions of quangos that poke their nose into even more things, there is the E.U. which wants to control the government and the quangos, the universal temperature and solar explosions, there is Google which surely must be heavily infiltrated by the state – or the other way round – and which surely knows everything about everything, including my daily habits and routines (including my early wake-up time on glorious May Tuesdays), there is the state-controlled, if not owned, Network Rail, which must have a perfect idea about all the train operators, trains and timetables in Cardiff (and pass the info to the dozen relevant departments; and it’s not my fault if they keep losing the bloody reports!), there is my address lying on the desks of most of those thousands of government departments (judging by all the junk mail that keeps following me wherever I move) and there must be then a full governmental awareness of the fact that I live within an uncomfortable proximity to a rail approach to the main local station. Taking into account the number of bureaucrats in the U.K., Poland (which I'm sure is also involved), the E.U. and the U.N, just to pretend they're doing something useful, each of them must have spent many hours reading relevant reports and discussing the issue.
How come then, I ask myself and my MP, that despite all this, it had to be exactly at the moment I woke up at half past five today and tuned into a state-owned, as luck would have it, station to listen to Gounod’s delicate arrangement of Bach’s Ave Maria, that the LONGEST and NOISIEST of those trains was passing by my window (but sounded as if it was clambering into my bed)??? Why the heck then and not, say, three minutes earlier when I was flushing the toilet?? What on earth are all those pen-pushers doing behind their desks? What, the hell, is all the tax money used for? Is there, I pray, something that this coalition is getting right?
How come then, I ask myself and my MP, that despite all this, it had to be exactly at the moment I woke up at half past five today and tuned into a state-owned, as luck would have it, station to listen to Gounod’s delicate arrangement of Bach’s Ave Maria, that the LONGEST and NOISIEST of those trains was passing by my window (but sounded as if it was clambering into my bed)??? Why the heck then and not, say, three minutes earlier when I was flushing the toilet?? What on earth are all those pen-pushers doing behind their desks? What, the hell, is all the tax money used for? Is there, I pray, something that this coalition is getting right?
I thought I understood the modern socialist state, but maybe I don’t, after all.
PS Yes I know: we need an investigation, two committees, a 3-year-long public consultation and five new intstitutions to increase the efficiency of the state. Which my local MP, being a Liberal Democrat (= socialist), will surely and whole-heartedly support.
