When Woodrow Wilson, one of the many humbugs to occupy the White House, presented his Fourteen Points, the French Premier, Georges Clemenceau, retorted that the Good God had only Ten.
Woodrow Wilson was a comparative miser with words. Michael Foot’s Election Manifesto as British Labour Leadernwas reckoned the Longest Suicide Note in History. And Sir Keir Starmer, quite recently issued a 20,000 word suggestion of things he would like to do for his, or to his, country. No doubt you will have read and discussed them with your friends?
Which takes me to the Ten Commandments. If not Divinely inspired, they are as Utilitarian as any disciple of Jeremy Bentham could want. They are designed to give the greatest happiness to the greatest number. The First Commandment is the one on which the other Nine can stand -because it forbids each one of us mortals proclaiming ourselves God.
Lying, stealing, murder, jealousy, gluttony and obsessive over-working are all forbidden because they are bad for us and our neighbours.
Fanatics are trying to impose silly laws on us. For instance unelected EU commissioners are trying to impose on Poland and Hungary trendy laws that were not dreamt of when those countries joined the EU.
EU Commissioners were nominated by National Governments in accordance with their rights. Ursula von der Leyen, the Commission President, a Civil Servant has usurped power insisting that National Governments must nominate at least one woman for each vacant post, The Irish Government nominated a man as a Commissioner, but Ursula demanded that a woman be nominated , and the Irish Government knuckled under, re-nominating their preferred candidate, plus a woman.The Usurper.imposed the woman and chose her portfolio.
The idea of of Catholic, Protestant, Right-handed or Left-handed, Gay,Lesbian, or Trans quotas for public appointments is a nonsense. No qualified citizen should be excluded from consideration according to those criteria, But I believe that no candidate belonging to the Freemasons, Knights of Columbanus or Opus Dei should be considered for public office unless they sever such connections. Nobody subject to the British Official Secrets Act or similar extra-Territorial Restrictions should be employed by the Irish States or its Agencies.
It would be a good idea if all political parties would limit their key policies to ten. And that they stick by them for a year. And change them only at annual conferences. It would make things easier for the vast majority of citizens who want to get on with their lives without being bothered by trendy cranks and revisionist blatherskites.
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