May 4
Blair’s legacy coming home to roost …..
There is evidently a glimmer of hope that the long years of Socialist sham and control are starting to slip. Labour has lost control of several councils, sadly retaining some control of others. The farce of spoiled ballots in Scotland exposes yet another cynical piece of gerrymandering by this ghastly party in that they indulged yet again in a piece of stupidity in tampering with the electoral system and then presenting ballot papers that were similar in appearance, but different in how they were to be used to an electorate that had not had a proper opportunity to get “run in” on the new concept before this. Yet again, their fetish for going hi-tech without actually sorting out the potential problems has come back to bite. I would suspect that the hundred thousand spoiled papers would have returned a result they would not have liked at all. But, despite being more than happy with the fact that Labour is (despite their protestations to the contrary) taking a pasting, I am less happy about the rest.
I don’t like David Cameron, primarily because, like Blair, he is not what he seems and worse, he isn’t a Conservative. He represents to me the the very worst of the current crop of politicians, lacking in vision, lacking in statesmanship, all spin and no substance. Blair has presided over the biggest expansion of bureaucracy in our history, he has eroded our traditional freedoms on an unprecedented scale and he has sold out to every terrorist currently seeking power. The Iraq war is a shambles because he and his ministers don’t have a clue and interfere in military matters constantly, the “War on Terror” is a sham because he has terrorist sympathisers in his own government.
The meltdown in their control of Local Government continues apace and not a minute before time. The Conservatives have lost several tricks here because many of my age group (born between 1943 and 1949) see him as a young upstart who is going to do what our parents generation of politicians did to us in excluding us from the top jobs and positions of power (You’re too inexperienced!) and then handed it over our heads (You’re too old – we need the “vision” of “youth”!) to the Blair generation (born from 1950 onwards). Many of us have real difficulty voting conservative, and even more real difficulty with the concept of a government led by Cameron. We were working when he and his chums were smoking pot and strumming guitars and we were paying into the pension funds Mister Blair and Mister Brown have now robbed to destruction. Will Camaeron reverse any of that? Not likely, I have yet to see a government reverse some nasty tax a previous government introduced – Inheritance Tax is a prime example!
Am I glad to see Blair and his shower getting a hiding? Yes, but as far as I am concerned it isn’t enough yet. I want to see them thrown out and their ideology discredited and destroyed completely. I want to see the voters of the world wake up to the fact that it is the socialist ideology that is destroying our civilisation and our nation. I want the voters to see that our present political system is no different to that operated pre- the Reform Act of 1836 in which the only way to advance in government was to have the patronage of someone above you. That system still operates but it is now the established means of promotion in the Civil Service as well. Promotion is not on merit in politics and it certainly isn’t on merit in the Civil Service. It is all down to patronage. The right patron and you’re in, regardless of your knowledge of the job or your ability.
The only reason this country prospered under that system before 1836 was that those who exrecised patronage then knew the importance of promoting protege’s who did know what they were doing. Blair does not.
What a pity we have to wait another three years before we can throw Labour out of power completely in Westminster. Their losing power in Wales and Scotland is something of a sop, but we still have to endure yet another Scottish MP ruling the English and handing our money to the Scots and Welsh in order to bolster his parties power bases. It is a disgrace and it will not be addressed until the English are free of the overriding control of Labour’s foot soldiers from Scottish and Welsh Constituencies. They have their own assembly and their own Parliament they should have no say over the English, just as we have no say over them any longer.
Let us hope that this swing in the voter choice continues – and Labour vanishes from our political landscape. The only problem I have is that the Conservative Party David Cameron is creating is merely “Nu Labour” in blue, all spin and no substance as before, all “youff” and no common sense or real world experience among them.
God save Britain from its own politicians, the greatest enemy it is ever likely to face.
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.
