Companies were hamstrung by over-manning, under-skilling, demarcation, working to rule and the ever-present threat of a crippling walk out because some useless oxygen thief had been dismissed on legitimate grounds but without months of union-led negotiations, time wasting obfuscation and campaigns at national level. Dad was never in a union and the Labour Party has never done a single thing to his benefit in any way whatsoever, yet some bizarre tribal loyalty kept him voting for them until he finally stopped bothering several decades ago. Now, of course, he wouldn't have to worry about who to vote for because in the popular phrase, it doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.
Possibly nothing better illustrates this than the current prevarication over our relationship with the European Union. As the electorate overwhelmingly insists it wants a say, every political faction is doing its level best to deny that option. As a significant proportion of the population has deep concerns over the membership foisted upon us 40 years ago, so every way we turn we are denied the right to express those concerns.
Vote Labour or Lib-Dem and Europe will prevail. The Conservatives have already embarked upon a five-year war of words to batter the voters into delivering the pre-ordained consensus, should they get re-elected – it’s easy making a promise you’re unlikely to have to make good on. And if you vote for the only party which openly demands a yes/no, in/out referendum it is almost certain that Labour will gain a majority in 2015. (No wonder Ed Miliband hasn't got any policies – he simply doesn't need any.)
So, where does that leave us? The European Union is a vast, Socialist enterprise which drives down education and behavioural standards and employment opportunities for its poorest, keeps the middle classes onside by effectively enslaving them to a life on kick-backs and seeks to pay for it all by punitive taxation of those who can most easily up-sticks and leave. It is a crackpot model, it’s unsustainable and it will result in armed conflict at local, national and international level at some point. I doubt very much that Mr Obummer will want to wade in to help sort out the mess he seems so keen on provoking. So what’s to do?
Given that all modern world governments seem hell-bent on some version of the socialist model, where the numbers of undeserving are increased at the expense of the worthy there seems to be only one sensible option. Look after number one; I'm alright, Jack; every man for himself. I'm unhappy enough about giving up my hard-earned to British social parasites; I'm buggered if I'm going to be buggered for the benefit of a bunch of Bulgarians as well.
Mine! All mine!
Starting now I'm reducing my taxable income by any legal means possible, giving nothing to charity ever again, hoarding my resources and hiding whatever I can. I shall aim to move to where multiculturalism is still pointed at and derided and I plan to consume only what I need, eking out what little I do have for the benefit of me and mine alone... and those with the outstretched hands can go fuck themselves!
My view is,A government is there to protect our sovereignty.Every thing else is your problem.
ReplyDeleteLabour have very rarely done anything for the working man. I'd say they have never done anything but I am sure some wise person will find some rare if minor act of parliament passed by them which had a perhaps unintended consequence of benefitting working people.
ReplyDeleteCertainly Labour have always been in the pocket of the Unions whose primary function is to hold the country in their grip to ensure their top men (and more latterly women) get to keep their big incomes and fat pensions. Socialist dogma has often been the cause of many workers' problems. On this, I recall a lengthy, highly disruptive transport strike in London when I was very small and hearing much later that what little the drivers and conductors gained from their 'dispute' could never cover the lost wages. But the union was adamant its members should strike irrespective of any consequences for them.
I find Labour hypocritical in so many ways: the Tories may be ''nasty'' but the socialists are simply morally and intellectually corrupt as well as in lining their own nests first and foremost at everyone's expense -- and that very much includes the poor.
My view is that the useful idiots in the socialist/Labour circles always want to keep the working man down, because the champagne quaffers and chatterers have no intention of doing any of the shit the ordinary man has to do.