We are getting a visit from the Prime Minister

today. That news has magically appeared this morning along with news about a new health facility to be built in the electorate.

I am not likely to meet the Prime Minister. I have no desire to meet him - or the Leader of the Opposition. 

The announcement about the new health facility is actually old news. It was "accidentally" leaked back in February. It went into our local council's newsletter. They were then told it was "confidential" and the matter was removed from the council's pages.

None of this was "accidental" of course. It was all intended to happen. They want us to believe that the whole thing is something new, not something that has been some years in the planning. 

If it all happens, in the two stages which are planned, then it will run over cost by millions and take far longer than they say it will. This is a government project. 

I can remember when there was nothing at all on the site this will perhaps be built. We went past it many times when I was in my teens. The Senior Cat was setting up an "area" school south of the site. It was mostly rural land. Now it is urban sprawl. 

There is a university associated with the hospital too. At one time I went in and out of it on a regular basis. It is built on the side of a hill. It has to be one of the least accessible places I know. Yes, they now have a rail extension that far but it took years to build it and the station is too far from the university to be really useful. 

The hospital itself is too small of course. Such places always are. The lay out is confusing even for people who work there. A former neighbour is a doctor there and her frustration at having to "go the long way around" is, rightly, immense. Neither of us have seen the plans for the new facility which is to be added but both of us hope without much hope that it will be better laid out.

All of this of course will not matter one bit to the Prime Minister. He can simply walk in today with his chosen press people in tow and make the announcement about the "new" facility and the "new" funding and how much it is "needed". He will make pronouncements about how the previous government did nothing  and conveniently ignore the issues brought on by Covid and more.

It really must all be rather fun to be able to do all this. You can spend other people's money with gay abandon. There is no need to keep your promises because nobody really expects you to do that. Being a politician is really rather good fun isn't it? Mind you there is always the possibility that you might lose the seat even if you do not lose the election.