Animal Farm and the Foreign Office

It was shocking to hear today that the Blairs used the consulate general's office in Toulouse to look for a villa that they could rent for their holiday. If it isn't it should surely be against the rules for politicians to use taxpayers money in that way. Horrifying also to learn that not only dud the last Labour government abolished the Foreign Office Language School and made everyone take management courses instead but also dispersed the Foreign Office Library with its diplomatic papers going back 500 years. Just goes to prove, if proof were needed, that the left always behaves like the autocrats they tell us they despise. Orwell's Animal Farm sums up perfectly how the left is always corrupted by power. Talking of Animal Farm reminds me how much Ed Balls is like one of the pigs in the book. Someone who denies responsibility for his actions when they lead to disaster and otherwise tries to persuade people that the course of action being taken by his opponents must inevitably be wrong. Balls wants the government to borrow more in order to spend more. He simply fails to understand that it was his government's borrowing that has put us into the awful predicament we find ourselves in and that to borrow more will make things even worse than they are. Getting out of the mess we find ourselves in, because of the size of the amount we owe as a country, is going to be painful even as a result of the relatively mild actions the present government has taken. We do not want the pain to get worse which would follow as night follows day if we were to follow the Balls prescription.