Amber Rudd

Listening to the rise of Amber Rudd, Amber who, one is reminded of the gulf that money and connections provide. The connectivity alone, to be able to ring up and chat to the movers and shakers, to be able to move yourself upwards, is a gift not many of us have. Daddy a stockbroker, Mummy a Magistrate, plummy schools with plummy friends who, as if by chemical reaction all rise in the cake to acquire the positions they always knew they deserve.
It's a process which has held us back as a country. The old school tie, the wink and a nod placement into positions of authority, takes us back to medieval times when family counted for everything. The road to democratising the system of office procurement within the civil service has been very patchy and listening to the sisters and friends of miss Rudd one has a brief insight into the closed, airtight world of privilege. 

Amber Rudd who when asked her reason for wanting to represent Hastings on the South Coast as its MP said " it's within easy commute to London".
On describing her constituency "you get people who are on benefits, who prefer to be on benefits by the seaside. They are not moving down here to get a job, they are moving down here to have easier access to friends and drugs and drink". 

I suppose with such a mindset one could expect to migrate to and within the Tory Party but to be given the post of she initially had, the job of Energy Minister even she must have thought it was good going within only 8 years as MP, (even acknowledging the easy commute).

Her brother, chairman of a powerful Energy lobbying group, who's project to store gas in underground caverns in Lancashire (to my wicked Yorkshire mind perhaps a re-enactment of Guy Faulks is on the cards) was quashed by the previous minister but the issue is now on the back-boiler again. Tory spokesperson had insisted Rudd will not make the final decision and it will be taken by a junior member of her department. Come off it, who is going to blow their career path for Lancashire !!!I 

Anyway, perhaps fortuitously she has risen once again with Theresa May appointing her to one of the top three, the Home Secretary.

As the keeper of the domestic realm perhaps she will be able to do something about that "drunken benefit scourge in Hastings" ?