Labour's Lost It
Sky reports the Sun will back Tories in next General Election.
Jenni Russell writing for Comment is Free in the Guardian believes that Labour’s great mistake is to think we are all automatons.
She starts out with the issue of why Labour Politicians and advisor’s are whining. Apparently, these people want to know, why aren’t the electorate more grateful for what’s been done for them? They have spent all our money on us and still we aren’t happy and are going to turn to the Tories.
Jenni thinks, and I would agree, that much of the reason is because
we’re not the automatons New Labour thought we were. We’re not remote and dispassionate observers of our society, making cool calculations about its success or failure on the basis of government-generated numbers. We’re complicated, vulnerable, emotional creatures, and we live with the consequences of official decision-making every day of our lives. What matters to us aren’t the figures we’re fed, or the targets that get hit, but what the experience feels like to us. Yet that part of the process has been almost completely neglected in official eyes.
Basically it’s not the statistics its how we are treated.
Jenni finishes off with the following:
When it wonders why we’re not grateful to it, the answer’s really simple. It’s the experience, stupid.
It’s a a good article and highlights the gross stupidity of the government and it’s chief statistician Gordon Brown.
This is the man who has asked for all numbers and who prizes them alongside his formidable range of tractor production figures. Whenever he is questioned about something, he always has the statistic at hand to indicate it’s all working and so much better than under the Tories.
The problem is that Gordon seldom ever goes out into the Real World and experiences his statistics. Maybe he can go out to the Front Line in Afghanistan and see how his statistic of 60% extra helicopter hours is working out for the Armed Forces, then he might realise that not everything can be measured by numbers.
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