With just over 15 months to go
until the next General Election and four months until the Euro Elections, no
doubt millions of potential voters are anxiously awaiting the opportunity to
cast their vote, as a means of ridding the country of the ghastly Conservative
& Liberal Democrat Coalition, which they believe has caused so much
devastation to our country since they were first elected in May 2010.
Many of these same voters will
have been persuaded to consider voting for the Labour Party once again,
forgiving-and-forgetting the party's previous 13 year term of office under the
leadership's of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but choosing to believe perhaps
that the new Labour leader, Ed Miliband; and his team of Shadow Ministers, are
somehow different to all those who have been and gone before.
In reality of course, they are
nothing of the sort. The message may have changed, the various departmental
spokesmen and women might be different, the emphasis on policy might have been
altered, but fundamentally the party remains what it was under both Tony Blair
and Gordon Brown, a free market enterprise party, much the same as its rival, the modern day Conservative Party.
Most recent opinion polls
undertaken by various agencies in the UK would appear to suggest that come May
2014 (European Elections) and May 2015 (General Election), Ed Miliband's party
will emerge as the largest single political force in the country, which begs
the rather obvious question. Why?
Why would a majority of the
British public choose to vote for a largely unreformed Labour Party? The same
Labour Party that sold off the nation's gold reserves at a bargain price, the
same Labour Party that wilfully set out to create a brand new
"knowledge" economy without having any real concept of how it would
adversely affect millions of people's lives? The same Labour Party that
continued apace with the NHS's "internal" marketplace, putting vital
healthcare services into the private "for profit" arena, the same
Labour Party that continued to pursue the previous administration's costly
Private Finance Initiatives, which has led to hugely expensive schools and
hospitals draining the spending budgets of local authorities throughout the
country.
Why would a majority of the
British public choose to vote for a Labour Party that introduced the bulk of
our country's green energy levies, the same ones that have caused everyone's
household bills to become so horribly expensive over the past few years. The
same Labour Party that promises to build 200,000 new homes every year for a
five year period, but forgets to mention that under their own Pathfinder
Housing Regeneration Scheme, they demolished 10,000 homes and replaced them
with only 1,000, leaving a shortfall of 9,000 homes, so destroying homes,
rather than creating them.
Why exactly would a majority of
the British public choose to vote for a Labour Party that got our Armed Forces
involved in at least two bloody military conflicts in faraway lands, on the
pretext of fighting and defeating foreign enemies that posed no real threat to
our nation? Would this be the same Labour Party that only recently has found
the courage to publicly admit that they deliberately flooded our country with
overseas migrants, ostensibly to "rub people's noses in diversity?"
The same Labour Party that told us only 13,000 Polish migrants would enter our
country under the auspices of the EU's freedom of movement, only to find that
hundreds of thousands came and settled? The same Labour Party that gave away a
significant chunk of our country's European Rebate, on the basis of reforming
the Common Agricultural Policy, only to fail to ensure that any such reforms
took place?
Why would a majority of the
British public choose to vote for a Labour Party that created the illusion of
economic growth by borrowing to invest in a burgeoning public sector, creating
unnecessary jobs in order to offset the failures of its new
"knowledge" economy policy? The same Labour Party that helped to make
widespread surveillance of the native population a routine of daily life,
whilst at the same time curtailing the right of the citizen to free speech,
especially in matters pertaining to race, colour or creed? The same Labour
Party that attacked people's private pension funds with a range of new stealth
taxes, leaving elderly investors to face their later retirement years, worrying
about how they would afford to manage financially?
So, with both May 2014 and 2015
fast approaching, just why would a majority of the British public choose to
vote for a Labour Party that has played such a pivotal role in creating the
socio-economic nightmare that our country is currently looking to escape from?
One would imagine that for many
British voters, any party other than the current Conservative one led by David
Cameron, is a highly attractive choice; and as the only other major political
force in the country, then for those given to making easy choices, there
probably isn't an easier choice, black against white, red as opposed to blue,
cold as against hot, etc. Of course, many of these same easy choosing voters
will be the first one's to scream to the rafters, if and when their party of
choice turn out to be just as bad as the last lot, reaffirming the commonly
held view that "they're all as bad as one another", or "they're
only in it for themselves". Obviously they never happen to see that they;
along with their own easy attitude to selecting a political candidate, for the
serious business of government, lies at the heart of our current problem.
Labour and Conservative parties
have both become accustomed to the expectation of parliamentary selection and
government, so much so that if they had their way they wouldn't bother going to
the trouble of consulting the people; and only baulk at the prospect of
removing that fundamental democratic right, for fear of being described and
known as as an un-elected dictatorship. Harsh opinion of politician's you
think? Well, it was only days ago that that Dark Lord of British politics, the
former Peter Mandelson, the Labour Party's arch spin doctor of the Blair Brown
era was bemoaning the prospect of a public referendum on our membership of the
European Union, to be held in 2017. Along with many of his esteemed colleagues
in that wholly un-elected house, it was publicly stated that such decisions,
like our continued membership of the EU, were far too important and complicated
for the ordinary British person to understand, let alone make a pivotal
decision about; and so a choice on the matter should be denied to us, the
people of Britain.
Other's amongst the majority of
British people who are reportedly going to vote Labour in both 2014 and 2015
will be the traditional or "tribal" voter, who will cast their
ballot, for no better reason than that's what they have always done, no rhyme,
no reason, just through sheer basic habit. Rather foolishly perhaps most will
still choose to believe that the Labour Party of today, still represents the
working classes, which of course it does not. Although some former Labour Party
members will know better than me, when exactly the party abandoned any pretence
of of representing the working classes, it is now a matter of history that Tony
Blair and Gordon Brown were influenced by and followers of the free market
enterprise policies, first pioneered and enacted by the Conservative leader
Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980's. From Tony Blair onwards, all Labour
leaders are "Thatcherite" in their political leanings; and it should
therefore be no surprise that the current incumbent of that office, Ed
Miliband, will pursue the same sort of economic and social policies that were
so assiduously followed by his own political mentor, the former chancellor and
Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Only this week, Mr Miliband has made plain
where his electoral priorities lie and it's not with the working classes, the
poor and the unemployed, whose onerous and desperate plight can be traced
directly back to many of the policies and strategies of the last Labour
government.
No, Mr Miliband's priorities do
not lie with the most needy, but rather they lie with the middle classes, the
aspirational middle classes, those professional workers who aspire to own their
own homes, who aspire to take foreign holidays once or twice a year, who aspire
to have buy and own the latest consumer products, who aspire to see their
children gain a university education, who aspire to retain more of their hard
earned incomes, who aspire to influence political leaders like Mr Miliband.
Tony Blair's Labour Party was the party of the middle classes, as was Gordon
Brown's, as too is Ed Miliband's.
It
makes grim reading indeed to realise that despite thirteen year period of
financial waste, political misrepresentation, bloody wars and the social
destruction of our country caused by their party's multicultural
gerrymandering, that so many ordinary people would consider handing the levers
of power to the same old Labour party once again, this time in the shape of Ed
Miliband, As Noah Chomsky said "If we choose, we can live in a world
of comforting illusion" and it seems to be the case that over the
period of the next year or so, if you choose to believe the latest opinion
polls, more and more people in our country are going to vote for what is a
highly illusory Labour Party, rather than a more realistic UKIP one, which if
it turns out to be true will be a real shame for our nation.
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