I think it's becoming clear enough to most people in the UK that come the next General Election (due in 2010) the chances of Labour getting back in for a fourth time are approximately zilch.
This is not because David Cameron's Conservative Party have anything particularly inspiring on offer; rather it is because Gordon Brown's Labour Government is becoming a bit of a laughing stock in much the same way that John Major's government was towards the end of the last Conservative administration.
All power corrupts, and in recent years we have seen that amply demonstrated. Tony Blair swept in on a tide of enthusiasm in 1997 promising to be whiter than white after the Conservative government's embarrassing "Cash for Questions" scandals, and miscellaneous scandals of a sexual kind.
Then we had, under New Labour, the Iraq debacle, donations to secure exemptions from legislation, donations to "buy" peerages, and more recently under the Gordon Brown administration, the infamous e-mail sent by his senior political adviser to a colleague suggesting various ways of running personal smear campaigns against Conservative front-benchers (and their wives). Gordon Brown - in a statement somewhat reminiscent of a Communist dicatorship - said "I accept full responsibility, that's why the person who did it has now gone".
The rich have become richer and the poor have become poorer, whilst at the same time women's wages continue to be lower than those for men for doing similar work; therefore it is clear to me that Labour has failed miserably, since it's whole reason for existence has always been to produce a fairer society.
We have also become the Surveillance State with more CCTV cameras watching our every move than anywhere else in the world. Meanwhile the government is also intent on forging ahead with an expensive and intrusive national identity card scheme (which, to the Conservatives' credit they promise to abandon .. if they are to be believed). Now there are plans to force communications companies to store records of all phone, text, and e-mail messages from everyone in the land. Some Local Councils are using anti-terrorism regulations to enforce ridiculous rules about how much, and what exactly, you are allowed to put in your waste disposal wheelie bins, and using underhand tactics to monitor your activities in this regard.
Well, Gordon Brown, I'm sorry to say this as an ex Labour Party Member and fervent adherent to left-of-centre politics, but come the next Election we shall surely be saying good-bye to you. God knows what we'll get in your place, and our crazy "first-past-the-post" electoral system will, as usual, ensure that the country's fate will be decided by a couple of dozen marginal constituencies.
I have no idea who I'm going to vote for, or even if I'll vote at all. Good grief - I can't believe I just said that!
3 comments:
Pack up all their shame and woe
Horrah!Won’t be long, go go go
With their heads held low
Bye,bye Labour.
None of them ever gave a toss
When they’re gone it will be no loss
And what a crappie, crappie boss
Bye, bye Labour.
No worries, everyone understands you
Can we forget expenses they all hand you
You’ve made your beds so nightie night
The people’s finally seen the light
Bye, bye old labour.
Speaker of the house as announced MPs claims for mortgage interest or rent on second homes would be capped at £1,250 per month. That’s one step forward, and one giant leap backwards. Let them pay their own damn mortgage, this is all wrong. Remember what happened about the poll tax? We don’t use the power we have, (peacefully).
Politicians have been lining their own pockets for years. When a system allows a person to claim back more than one third of his wages in expenses, Wow! MPs wage £65 grand per year, expenses £23 grand per year. Anyone worked this out, these people are not paying any TAX.
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