The end is nigh!

Oh dear; we waited and it came. The scathing announcement of our demise from Mr Pickles - not even a thank you for all your hard work. Just more political posturing which signals to me the man has a real problem with his ego - being macho doesn't make you clever. In fact it makes you look inadequate and thats what I think is at the heart of it. "We will make tough decisions" he says. Mmmm, tough doesn't equal clever either. No, if you had wanted to be clever Mr P you would have said those offices of government spread around the country are cheap and they can do the same job as my Whitehall minions so I'll get them to do my Big Society and localism work.
I hate to be the prophet of "I told you so" but in a years time when you haven't made any progress on the Big Society mullarkey and those able volunteers are still sitting on their backsides waiting for the money and the instructions, you are going to come up with a bright idea of having offices of civil servants locally who can help push your ideas through. Of course they won't push though, because you don't like the state pushing, not even when you undemocratically make decisions with out discussing it in the House of Commons.
And Mr P likes to take decisions without having any of the detail ready - bet that makes him feel big too. Eric " I don't deal with details" Pickles. So 1700 staff are left in the dark about redeployment or release and now face further months of uncertainty and at the same time we are asked to carry on professionally. Tell that to the single parent who wonders if they will lose their home or the carer who wonders how they will manage with an increased journey time, longer hours and less money. But of course we are not real people with real problems. We are all ficticious Sir Humphreys with gold plated pensions and platinum salaries - just shows how out of touch EP and his advisers are. Not to mention the political pigmyism he displays by putting more people on the dole when the country is already bankrupt.
Oh well, as they say "that's politics!"