I’m becoming increasingly interested in the writings of Daniel Salt of the blog ‘Politically Homeless’. Of course whilst I may not agree with every word he may write or every opinion he may hold, he appears to be pretty good at identifying many of the problems that the nation of the United Kingdom has and how these problems have come about.

Like me Mr Salt has over the course of his life been faced with evidence that has made him change his views on some things. Whereas I made a viewpoint journey from centre Left to centre Right, although not on every issue, Mr Salt has apparently moved from being a centrist who might well have voted for the Lib Dems, into someone who by seeing the ‘writing on the wall’ regarding Britain and its problems seems to have rejected centrist thinking.

I have been following Mr Salt on the X platform for a while and recently featured one of Mr Salt’s posts on this blog’s ‘From Elsewhere’ feature. In a previous article by Mr Salt that this blog has featured and commented upon, is his one about how the political convulsions regarding migration that have afflicted the political elite of the EU nations, will eventually afflict the political elite in the UK. I believe that Mr Salt is correct in his conclusion. There is nothing special about the United Kingdom that would permanently immunise Britain from having its own political convulsions that, like those of other nations, would be linked to excessive and inappropriate types of immigration.

The next one of Mr Salt’s articles that I would like to feature is his piece on the nature of Britain’s problems and how there is almost zero accountability for those politicians who have either created or made worse the problems that the nation has faced. In his article Mr Salt lists a whole host of problems that have been caused by the political classes and by the Liberal-Left which include: The Iraq War, the 2008 Financial Crash, COVID, the multitude of NHS scandals, Net Zero and of course the invasion levels of migration that Britain and Britons are suffering from. Mr Salt also remarked that none of those politicians or those involved in liberal-left groups or the civil service adminisphere or those in charge of national entities such as the Post Office and the NHS have ever been made accountable for their mistakes. He’s correct on that of course. So often after some scandal we hear the words ‘lessons will be learned’ but they rarely are and those who created the problems that have morphed into scandals never pay anything like the social, political or career prices that they deserve to pay.

Mr Salt points out that whilst the political, administrative and activist classes create problems that they are not held accountable for, it is the working classes of Britain who do have to pay the price for the bad decisions made by those who rule over, administer and supposedly serve the nation.

Mr Salt said:

It is us the public which are left dealing with the misery from their shitty mistakes as most of them earn enough and are safely cocooned from the outcomes. They will just use private health, their kids won’t join the military, they can move abroad, they live in low crime areas etc. Yet they still think they have a right to rule, that they know best that in some way they are better at it than anyone else. Look at the world they have birthed, look at what they have done to our country and yet they still believe that. Trust has collapsed in our institutions because the public day in day out have to deal personally and socially with awful outcomes that they impose on us. More than that they can see that the British establishment clearly hates the British public and you know what that feeling is being returned on steroids now.

I want consequences and I want them now. I want the people in charge in court, tarred and feathered in front of the public or hung from the proverbial lamppost. It is time for people to be held accountable again for the decisions they make and the misery they impose. I am sick them closing ranks to protect each other and their cozy little club and worldview. The aristocracy was the British establishment for most of our history and you know what at least they had a sense of shame, of honour and of obligation to the public via noblesse oblige. The current crop have none of them, they are without honour and without shame and it shows more and more each day.

Please go and read the entirety of Mr Salt’s post at Politically Homeless as it’s excellent.

Of course I very much doubt that Mr Salt is seriously proposing that there should be politicians hanging from lampposts (and neither having seen and rejected the revolutionary Left, do I), but there does need to be some sort of cost imposed on the political and administrative classes when they royally screw things up. At the very least it should be a given that if you screw up so badly that it has long term impact, such as leading the nation into a failed war or destroying the nation’s energy infrastructure or propping the country’s borders open, then never again should that person be allowed any access to the levers of power ever again. I can sense Mr Salt’s fury at where the nation is now and about how we got here. This is because it is infuriating to be a British subject and see those ‘clever’ people who have created the vast majority of the problems that we face today getting off scot free or even being promoted upwards where they can do even more damage.

Mr Salt is correct in his assessment of the moral paucity of our political and governing classes. They really don’t have any sense of shame and propriety and need to be replaced with those who will actually be accountable for their screw ups. Sadly Mr Salt is also correct in saying that many old school Aristocrats would have had more morals than many modern politicians. That the undemocratic Aristocrats were often morally superior to our elected politicians is an incredibly sad state of affairs. Personally, I’d rather be ruled by politicians who would, like John Profumo did after the scandal that was named after him, quietly disappear to do good works, when discovered to have engaged in wrongdoing, than have someone like Tony Blair popping up every now and again and sticking his oar in where it is no longer helpful for him to do so.

I’m not one of those who believe that politics should be some sort of purity competition with every politician expected to have perfect pre-Parliamentary work or perfect marriages or relationships or families. Politicians are like the rest of us, which is all too human, but the least we should be able to expect from those who govern and administer us is that they accept that they are accountable for their actions and those bad actions should have some negative consequences for them. We should strive to be a society where those in authority who do terrible things fear doing such terrible things. Those who have done such terrible things as to lead the nation into unnecessary wars, turn a blind eye to monstrous crimes such as those committed by the grooming gangs or close the pubs whilst propping the border doors open, should be punished by never again being allowed to be put in a position where they can influence decision making ever again. I want to see politicians who will do the right thing by the nation and its citizens and I want a political class that feels shame again.