Political Rant 1.0

 Political Rant 1.0 

It's been a pretty tumultuous few months for our leader.  If it weren't for the well-timed revelation of the Milly Dowler hacking scandal, Murdoch's BSkyB bid would have gone through, and his company would own a third of our media.  This would have led to a undemocratic and unfair bias in the opinions reported to us.  Luckily though it all fell apart, as one dark revelation followed another: families of terror victims being hacked for a cheap story, police being paid six-figure sums for unappetizing tabloid scandals.  Now the 168 year old News Of the World has been shut down, many of Murdochs minions have resigned or been arrested, and others have been entertainingly interrogated on live TV by MPs.  The worst, however, were the close ties that Murdoch's empire enjoyed with our political hierarchy; Andy Coulson (hired by Cameron under dubious circumstances and who is now under arrest) was receiving payment form Murdoch’s News Int. whilst working for number ten!  If that doesn't sound corrupt, then how about the fact that Murdoch's eldest children have 48-hour parties with a host of high-profile individuals (amongst others, Cameron and wife, David Miliband, Peter Mandelson, BBC reporter Robert Peston, Jeremy Clarkson, PR god Matthew Freud, the education minister and Kate Moss).  If ever there was a time when one can feel a bit of democratic deficit it is surely now with members of all parties and the media, getting on frightfully well at extravagant raves.  One could be forgiven for thinking that Cameron and Co. are a bit out of touch with what their citizens feel, and that sentiment was justified in the aftermath of the English riots.  Boris Johnson hopelessly waving a broom around whilst being unable to answer to valid heckling from real Londoners, Cameron seizing upon the chaos as an opportunity to build his "Big Society". As for stopping the benefits of those caught looting, if one has no money, and no income then one steals so you would just create a vicious circle of poverty.  The way out is to enable people more means of escaping from this seeming underclass; cutting community centers and their livelihoods is therefore probably not the best answer in the age of an employment crisis.