What is government for?

It is an odd question - even order that in a sense in Britian at least the question has become so tricky.

And for three reasons. Firstly it is clear that for twenty years or so government has attempted the strangest of moves. It has attempted to dress everything it did in terms of business and partnerships with others. Government merged with a certain cross (the elites, or the would be elites in a community) . It did so while trumpeting the amount of money sent (as if spending was itself the action - the reform needed), and also claiming any change however small for the good to its credit, while denying every bad. A move that went past cynical to become idiotic, as people are not so daffy that the heavy New labour propaganda ad endless claims to have saved the world was.

The second strategy was that all difficult decisions were put out the endless communities to mitigate responsibility. This might be ok in itself, but it often simply looks like ducking the issue. More hat than these expert are of course ultimately endlessly drawn into the politician arena. The government the sets up it own internal opposition to score points of. Or in effect it rather to obviously starts to wage war of the truths that it itself has caused to be. Commities then either absolve politicians of action, or render politics too obvious to be really effective!

Finally of course there is what government does -endlessly - namely criminal justice and eduction. Both are endlessly fiddled with are reforms follows reform, until everyone is dizzy, and no one can tell which of these reforms are working and which are not..... Government then in micro management and perpetual revolution becomes at best a burden and at worse an affliction.

perhaps there real trouble ere, is that in a media age where stories an pilloried irrespective of the actual facts or at least the subtlies in the arguments, then politicians power lies not in being a government so much as being an opposition. it is as opposing one runs the power lines of a society and makes things happen or not. The trouble with New labour was then it never has looked like a government- more a perpetual opposition - while the tories never looked like taking power until they lost the trappings of power and become also an opposition.

all of which feeds back to that initial question - what is our government for?A question that demands an answer other than perpetual opposition. The trouble of course s, that f we do not have a clear answer to tins question, then the only possible answer it for themselves - an answer that surely lies behind the expenses scandal!

The result was of course that the entire edifices of