World Food Riots....oh and Boris wins London!

When commodities are so scarce Labour can't afford to have egg on it's face.
Brown must shoulder some of the blame for labour's mauling in the local elections.what started as a cheap jibe by the opposition about his dithering
has become a political reality.this reality was magnified by his disastrous
trip to america where he publicly declared that the world owes George Bush
a great debt.A quite phenomenal U-turn on his original frostiness towards
a man who has plunged his country and the planet into great turmoil.a billion of the worlds poorest people live on less than a dollar a day.they typically spend 70%
of that dollar on food;so a doubling of food prices means starvation for the worlds's very poorest,hence the unrest.So a more accurate account of events would say that the world has been thrown further into indebtedness as a result of Bush's policies.On the domestic front people are also beginning to feel the pinch as the cost of living has spiralled out of control.naturally this has been taken out on the goverment at a time when they have so lost their moral compass that they are taking money out of the pockets of the poor in this country to subsidise headline grabbing tax cuts.Brown says he will listen but you can tell by his demeanour that he'd rather not.And it is this demeanour ,what with the faked smiles and mistimed over-politicking that has cost Labour dear.Gordon Brown's failure to grasp the nettle on matters such as world poverty despite all his grandstanding on the issue has eaten into what was perceived as his core strength;substance.the world bank recently announced that the fight against poverty has been set back by as much as seven years.
That's probably an understatement and given that Brown has been trying to the tackle this matter for over ten years it has left him looking very incompetent.coupled with a poor PR team that has failed to reign in in his obsession with courting the right at the expense of his core base the UK could be heading for further misery in the shape of a Tory Government.The only silver lining for Labour is that they may be outdone in the sphere of incompetence by Boris Johnson ,the only manifestation
of Tory power since the conservatives were thrown out in 1997.