Rant number 91
I have been thinking about accountability for a couple of days now. After the government caused petrol hysteria - some people lost all common sense, with what is a very volatile, inflammable liquid.
As a result, a women through either a lack of intelligence, common sense or through getting herself into a blind panic managed to severely burn herself in her kitchen.
She was moving petrol between containers using a glass measuring jug, while cooking her lunch with an open flame - the inevitable disaster occurred and she is now in hospital with 40 degree burns.
I put this up on my facebook profile - and was surprised by some of the responses, which were less than sympathetic. I suppose the question is:
Who is accountable in this case?
We're not talking court here, but its an interesting question.
In my opinion, the woman in question could not have been that intelligent or educated. I mean, its petrol: its explosive and it burns really easily. You and I know that, and we wouldn't be mucking about with it in our kitchen. Lets face it - its common sense practically to the point of instinct.
If you accept then that she was not sufficiently intelligent to grasp the concept of how dangerous what she was doing was, you have to realise how dangerous the rubbish that the politicians speak can be.
I don't listen to them, because they haven't spoken the truth in years (its their occupation,) and most of you are just the same. Naive people though listen to what these guys say. To paraphrase: tell an idiot its time to panic - and (s)he probably will.
My point then, is that Francis Maude - who told people to fill jerry cans and to panic buy fuel- even though there is not even a date set for the strike - is almost as guilty as a women of extreme naivety.
Talk is too cheap, and people like him - private school educated, hugely out of touch and generally deplorably Torie - need to be punished for every slip up, because there is no excuse.
Rant over.
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