You don't need a weatherman to know which way the political wind blows

It is a sign of the insane times we live that one has to even say this but hey ho: the human consequences of the weather,natural disasters and so called acts of God are not and should never under any conceivable circumstances be the domain of the State to rectify,ameliorate compensate and generally meddle in on baseless grounds of humanitarianism and collective responsibility and all the other fraudulent liberal rationalisations for State intervention via of course the hapless taxpayers.How politicians love to reinforce the largely subliminal narrative that they are indeed invested with God like powers to tame nature and save us poor helpless humans from all the happenstances and vicissitudes of existence!How they love to be on the scene of some emergency like ambulance chasing ghouls feeding on the misery of the victims,promising them largesse made of course at no expense to themselves.But there is a danger to all of this cynical opportunism and politics by emote as Cameron found out to his embarrassment this weekend when a hapless angry resident without power for a week confronted him angrily over the local authorities supposed tardiness at restoring power.She indeed had been schooled in the 'politicans as God' meme and it came back with a vengeance to bite the ridiculous Cameron on the butt.