“What would you think if you were forced to invest in a Company which always misses its targets, has unhappy owners and a huge unfunded pension deficit, has increased overheads in real terms for over a decade, has had negative cashflow for 20 years, can only make ends meet by both charging its customers more and borrowing more to pay the interest, cooks the books by missing out liabilities, has an appalling record on senior management expenses and an unqualified finance director of bizarre appearance?”

You’d be pretty pissed about it wouldn’t you?

Welcome to New Labour – if it was a Company, the Directors would be struck off…

This is not a political rant, it’s a common-sense one.

Governments are elected by us to manage the Country, sometimes there are difficult decisions to be made and that’s where leadership comes in. This Government simply rides rough-shod over any of our concerns or, more likely, does not even listen.

The trouncing at the weekend should be a wake-up call not only for New Labour but for anyone involved in Government from the smallest minority party through to every single public servant.

We live in a democracy, not a dictatorship, and don’t ever forget that.