Citizen 16

In November last year the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth suffered disastrous flooding. During the following clean-up operation it was visited by David Cameron.

"See David, it really is called Cockermouth."

Inevitably at some point during the visit Mr. Cameron was forced to cross a road. Clearly though he never saw Darth Vader’s lessons in road safety when he was a boy, because he walked straight onto the road after the crossing light had turned red. Setting off from those very traffic lights was my mother who saw him in time and resisted the urge many Britons would have to just speed up regardless.

That’s right. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland doesn’t pay attention to basic road safety.

IF he can’t even cross the road properly WHAT hope does he have of tackling a complex problem like our economy?

…Sorry, I slipped into some misleading The Sun rhetoric there. Actually I doubt the skills required to manage a financial crisis are anything like the skills required for getting from one side of a road to another without walking in front of moving vehicles.

As for my mum… I’ve forgiven her for putting the brakes on. You have to really.