A wondrous bird is the pelican ……..
This wonderful piece of nonsense rhyme is amusing and provided lots of fun when my children were small with its rather zany view of the animal world, but a friend made me think of it again in conversation the other day with reference to the Labour Party. As he pointed out, it is not, as one would think, a homogenous party at all. It is, rather, the home of just about every single issue and crackpot philosophy going. Take a good hard look at it, starting at the top – Blair and his cabinet chums are almost to a man Public School, Grammar School and Oxbridge. Not a “working man” among them.The exception could be the arch buffoon, the Deputy Prime Minister, but, in fact he is ex-Grammar School, though one suspects that there must have been some manipulation there!
The truth is that this party embraces every crackbrained idea going. Take a look at their pronouncements; women’s issues, gay rights, ethnic rights, religious rights (except for Christians that is! – Nasty bigots and crusaders, responsible for every war since Adam in case you wondered!), “experimental” education issues, class warriors, trade unionists, centralisation of bureaucracy, intrusive regulation, childrens rights, green issues, “redistribution” tax theorists and everything from unreconstructed Marxists through to “Social Conscience” types on the wealthier end of the scale. Lurking within the Party are still groups whose idea of Utopia is the enslave the rest of the nation to their nationalised industries, with them, naturally, as the gate keepers to employment. Also lurking within the Party are those who firmly believe that they, and they alone, have the answers to all the difficult issues surrounding racist, genderist and anti-social behaviours. Then there are the regulators, who believe that by ever more restrictive regulation the world can be made prooof against all ills.
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