The headless chicken raises it's ugly tail twice!

As a Fidelity client I often get letters when there is a little termoil in the equity markets. As you can imagine, I've had a few lately.The author of the latest was laying the blame firmly on the lack of leadership in political circles.  A sentiment I share and a frustration many are starting to bare. The HP debacle that seems to have been playing out over a number of months and which came to a head in the past week exposes a similar problem at the technology giant.

I have had this feeling myself sitting at tables in meetings watching people hoping someone else will tell them what to do. Oh Iggy 'Chairman of the bored/board' I'm so bored as they fiddle and things crumble beneath them.

I vote for the highly intelligent Rottweiler rather than the charming 'know it all'. 

A brand New Frying pan!

5 live in my car with Victoria Derbyshire as I consume the fumes of the M25 on my way to visit a supplier and 'Yates of the yard' is being grilled by MPs. Apparently nothing done within his department is anything to do with him as there are 4000 people doing it and can't have his finger on every pulse. I caught the end of Ian Blair's testimony just as I got on the road and his line was similar. At least Ronald Reagan said he couldn't remember and was subsequently proved right with his terrible illness. Prime executives, Chief or otherwise, if worth their pay packet should have every finger and more in every pie and on every pulse in their organisation either directly of through their delegates. Else to what end do they exist? If the chaps are struggling to multi task perhaps more ladies should be in charge?!

All of this reminds me, we need a new non-stick frying pan at home. The one I normally use is starting to cling to eggs and it's leaving little black bit on the tomatoes.

High Society, No such thing and Big: High Risk Cameron gets high in the sky.

As I put finger to keys news breaks as David Cameron lands in Egypt as his 'Window of opportunity' for reform in Egypt is open. I was about to talk (write) about, well the first part of the above title and the Cameron ideological moves towards Americanisation(in republican political terms), I mean shrinking government. Apart from my strong misgivings regarding making public service one big charity organisation (or is it loads of little ones) incoherently making tea and saying oh how awful while others rant against the machine, it is truly a remarkable exposure and measure of how much uncalculated risk the man is willing to take.

Of course, the very meddling from the former colonials (in the eyes of the Arabs) is what brought about the regimes that they have come to detest in the first place. So surely landing in Egypt now as well as unstitching the fabric of Britain are bad for erm, well Britain!?

If I was every in doubt I am now sure. The prefects have taken over the school and they are in a little rowing boat in the middle of the pacific, Nic on one oar and Dave on the other.

The mad hatter's tea party's US tour.

The mad hatters tea party didn't quite get into full swing, thank fully.

There is, however, an under current of right wing extremism and selfishness in America (thankfully far from the majority) that sits very uncomfortably with most reasonable rational people. It is ironic that they often compare the left as the taliban, when it is they, with a few changes of names and titles, who would fit the Whahhabiate  mould best.(Wahhabi? That's the extreme version of Islam that all the nutty blowuppy myself lot practice. It's a bit like burn in hell evangelical stuff gone too far) .
They are their own biggest enemy, but they just don't see it. Is Europe really so bad that they hate the way we go about things?
I feel sorry for Obama as he is struggling against a culture that simply will not change even if it means they will die because of it. I hope it never happens here. David C beware, big society could lead you right there. Unintentionally of course!

Mind you quite a few people voted for Obama originally. So there is a silent majority of rationality. Just wish they weren't so impatient. Mind you most good people are proven by history and not by their popularity at the time. I know it's a cliché, but I had to say it.