Mr Benn

I have to ask, is everyone in the UK Cabinet on holiday except for Hilary Benn? It seems every time I switch on the TV at the moment it’s either Big Brother or Mr Benn (and sadly not the classic kids TV programme).

To be fair, the floods and the foot and mouth fiascos fall squarely on his desk but even still, you’d think a few other ministers would pop up from time to time to put their oar in (an unfortunate reference to the floods there I do apologise). Even David Cameron stayed in the country long enough to make an appearance at a recent cattle show. Or no-show as it turned out to be. DC made some good comments on the affair in his attempt to paint himself as a better manager of such issues than GB. His attempt to pin some of the blame on the Government was a bit lame though.

But the one thing I wanted to mention on here was the possibility that the company who started the recent foot and mouth problems may well end up profiting from it. Now hopefully this potential disaster for the UK won’t spread beyond the second affected farm reported this morning but it seems bizarre that the Government will have to pay a company for vaccines when it was that company that caused the outbreak in the first place.

I believe a report of some sort is out today which will further clarify if this is what is actually about to happen. And if it does, one can only hope that as if by magic, some common sense appears before the ever-present Mr Benn.