Gas Bored
When I read the headline 'Wilson blames Tories for fuel crisis I groaned. Not because of the palpable absurdity of the accusation, nor even because we have come to expect a higher stan- dard of political subtlety and inventiveness from the Prime Minister than this. It is just that there are few things more tedious than the mutual recrimination that most of the time passes for political debate these days.
These counter-accusations would be barren and boring enough even if they were justified. But more often than not even this isn't true: the events complained of are well outside the (for- tunately) limited sphere of Government control. But politicians are forced to pretend that the blame is theirs because they have never hesitated to claim the credit for successes in fields where their writ is equally irrelevant. The sooner politicians of both parties accept that most of the things that happen in our society, for good or for ill, are nothing to do with them, the sooner the public will start to believe what they say.
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