Losing confidence in your politicians

Subject: Losing confidence in your politicians.

The furore over Huawei's inclusion to supply cutting edge technology in the development of the proposed 5g telecoms system which is posited on the Chinese companies reliance on the authoritarian Chinese governments compliance and the fear that as most of our data will be handled by the 5g system, our security will be compromised. But no, the anger has been about the leak from a security bodies meeting in which Huawei, with all the security concerns, was being debated.
The ire is about the leak coming from our own leaders and this trumps any concerns we may have of the Chinese using our data to their advantage.
Our leadership (which may soon include Boris Johnson at its head) used to be seen as a mix of wise old heads, the elite of the elite, a composite of the aristocracy/Oxbridge and the schools that maintain them and our willingness to allow them to make decisions on our behalf. Decisions, made behind closed doors, in smoke filled rooms, decisions made by people who are often far removed from the people on the ground and who's future is effected.
I have been listening to the great and the good pontificating about cabinet and ministerial confidentiality when so much of this confidentiality hide appalling decisions, appalling for the ordinary man or woman in the street who find the decisions soon become law and the damage is done to the lives of ordinary people. 

Is the so called intellectual discrimination of a person like Chris's Grayling who has presided over debacle after debacle in Health and in Transport or  Ian Duncan Smith who redesigned the benefits payment system in which part of its provision moved payments onto a monthly system. Rather than make the payments retroactive i.e. Give the claimants one months benefit up front they moved the next payment three weeks ahead, without realising that people living on benefits sail close to the wind 'each week' and therefore that decision drove many of them into the arms of loan sharks.
These wise men are either not wise or they are mendacious. Their concerns lie elsewhere and not with the increasing vulnerable people who make up our society.
Huawei is as much about money as about security. Our future as an independent nation is tied up in decisions made behind closed doors. The Huawei decision is both cutting edge as being cheap and with us our psyche tends towards cheap.
We seem totally unable to bring projects on time and on budget. 
Cross rail is already over budget and its opening is now delayed for another two years.
The High Speed Rail Link (HS2) between London and Birmingham/Manchester may not go ahead because it has been recognised as massively expensive (50 billion and rising) to save half an hour on the journey.
Heathrow expansion, ditto.
We always were led to believe the workers and the unions were to blame for the demise of our shipbuilding and car manufacturing but the real problem was management and their appalling attitude to the workers under them. As soon as Japanese management took over the plant in Sunderland one of the best car manufacturing plants in the world came into being to manufacture cars for Nissan.
Our reliance on public school educated management has proved, time and again to be our undoing and so when I hear the heat arising from their ranks about security leaks I smell a rat. Perhaps as Mrs May is about to depart, another bombshell will be uncovered  in which we become just another Hong kong a Chinese dependency with all the assurances the Chinese gave them, only to break every pledge made. 
WikiLeaks has revealed a string of economic abuses carried out by many of the well heeled political and economic leaders.  Famous banks, off shore financial tax havens, religious institutions and many more. When Julian Assange went into hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London the police spent millions ensuring he didn't leave. The Powers which he had hurt by his revelations were not persuaded that the information he released belong in the public domain. They the elite must remain the arbiters of what we 'Joe public' should know since the public can rely on us to have their best interests at heart. 
Huawei is but one of a string of revelations which the general public should share and no amount of huffing and puffing can deflect from the fact that we have lost all confidence in our masters.