Andrew Dickens Afternoons

Listening to the blamestorm over MIQ last week I thought the universe had tipped on its axis. There was our poverty defeating socialist Prime Minister, punching down on a minimum wage frontline worker and bemoaning his lack of accountability and accusing him of lying..Meanwhile, a cohort of neo-liberal, conservative right wingers were busy defending the honour of the man because he was among our most vulnerable who was being attacked by our most powerful. Are the lefty’s now the advocates for personal responsibility now? Because that was the PM's angle.  And are the right wingers the advocates for ultimate governmental supremacy in all?  They seemed to be exonerating the worker and First Security for not keeping to the rules.In my opinion both sides were kind of right. The man misled his employer, who then misled the Government. He told fibs presumably because he doesn’t like a bottle brush up the nose. Some would call that lying.Meanwhile, the Government should have known that something like this could happe