Listening to the other Milliband yesterday I found myself wondering just how fast John Smith, Kier Hardie and William Beveridge were spinning in their graves. I also had a fleeting question over whether Ed was merely acting as warm-up man for David, an apparently better choice for leader than him (wonder if the unions are thinking that too. Always a problem when the block vote brings in the man you later realise you didn't want.)
I was amazed to discover that Labour are the panacea to all our financial ills, especially as it was the same Labour government that Mr Milliband was part of, whose financial mismanagement brought us to the place where many BaE employees lost their jobs as he was preparing to speak.
I was stunned to hear that we were going to reward the 'right people'. I really enjoyed the bit about, "An economy and a society too often rewarding not the right people with the right values, but the wrong people with the wrong values." and wondered where all those, excessively expensive PFI projects and the many Quangos and the like that came into being under Labour fitted in this assessment.
Mind you, those who wish to emulate Peter Rachman (for those of you who aren't familiar with the name, he was the king of the slum landlord with menaces business in the fifties and early sixties) will be taking heart as the threat of social housing only being given to 'approved' people. Always good when we can marginalise and people group, helps when we want to dehumanise them and later take them off to places from whence they never return (Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January).
I did agree that we are in the midst of a crisis that results from the promises made over the past thirty years and see the problems as a combination of greed, self coupled with the decline of the religious moral codes that previously shaped our nation.
Still, if we ignore everything about Labour's last go at governing and if Billy and Johnny (AKA David and Nick) can do enough wrong things, Labour might just get in next time around.
Now that's as frightening a thought as either of the present incumbents in government winning, isn't it?
Happy Wednesday.
5 comments:
Wow! Was this a spoof entry on an otherwise real Christian minister's blog, or a real entry on a spoof blog? I honestly can't decide.
No wonder I see empty pews more often these days....
It's the voice of one who is concerned at the further erosion of the welfare state, the marginalization of an underclass and the spectre of government as judge, jury and executioner.
Obviously a post from a spoof poster or a poster with a bit of a problem.
Funnily, where I am attendance isn't a problem, have you considered changing deodorant ;-)
Still, thanks for comment, always good to be challenged,
Pax
Good post Rev. Vic. I believe strongly in exercising my democratic privilege by voting... but these days it's pretty tricky to know where to put the x.
Spot on Vic - your first commentator obviously has a rather marked problem with reality if they can't seethe validity in your words.
Well said.
I tend to think of Ed Milliband as a Poodle for Ed Balls to play with.
Throw him a ball and see him go running to 'fetch'.
Unfortunately for Ed, he is tarnished by his part in the failed New Labour project and his association with militant tendency (sorry Trade Unions) which gives rise to concerns about his independence of thought and action.
While I don't agree with the current coalition government's policies, in particular demonizing and penalising the poor, deprived and people without work, at least neither can be blamed for the last 13 years, apart from having been in parliament during that time.
If we want a revolution in politics, than perhaps a coalition of all of the parties, of National Unity might have been a more radical solution. Quite recently, our current economic crisis has been likened to being at war - in war, we need national unity like no other time.
Politicians need to put narrow self-interest aside and work for the greater good - is that to much to hope for?
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