Great Turn Offs Of Our Time (33) Groundhog Government

It is a truth to avoid when the public
recognise that their government is tired
and the proof is too easy to find for comfort.

First there is the setting of false targets,
where the government do not control
the means by which the targets will be met
and will not countenance this being pointed out to them.

Second there is the statistics that are framed
to show that the targets are being reached,
but the arguments behind the figures produced
more proves the opposite of what the government proposed. 

Then, to side-line all official opposition
the government find tame backbenchers
from their own side who will put out proposals
in the media, for the government to consider,
which everyone knows that they will not act on.

Then the government rediscover some old announcements
that they think everybody has forgotten about,
and put them out as if they have never been seen before...

These actions, and many more,
are the actions of groundhog governments
around the world, where every step forward
leads back to life the day, the decade, before...