Gove to Go.

I don’t know quit how but Michael Gove makes my ears feel dirty. I can somehow see his mind working and it’s not a pretty sight. In fact he’s a master of the bolloctical to quote my last blog. It’s typical of the Liberals to pin their mast to House of Lords reform, it being a political black hole since the turn of the last century. It’s a no win no vote concrete ticket to Davy Jones. The reason is simple. The commons is on its own cusp between elected commoners and professional politicians. Half are wedded to the idea of democratic elections throughout and the other half to it being the unique preserve of the commons. “You’re just Lords, we’ve been elected” is the elitist view from the commons but even though most Lords are approaching their incontinence years they represent a certain meritocracy in that their title isn’t easily come by and advancing years does bring with it experience and a capacity to gently reflect. In that sense it perfectly balances the testosterone filled heads of the commons gridlocked by fear of political failure. And what if the Lords became an elected chamber? They would be newbies and make the professionals in the Commons look strangely like political Lords. It might look like a capsize where the left of the boat, it now being upside down, appears on the right. ‘Come in number 91. But we’ve only got 20 boats.’ It would be good to have an elected meritocratic second chamber but there are two problems. No one wants to leave a successful career half way through and voters, evidenced by our current politics, wouldn’t know merit if it punched them in the face. So I suggest the Lords is a bit like democracy; it’s not perfect but it’s the best we’ve got. Unlike Michael Gove. I would personally paint his portrait and hang it in my attic if I thought he would spend his perpetuity teaching PE in an inner city sink school.