Tuesday 26 March 2013

Getting Better Yet?

I watched Made in Dagenham on Sunday afternoon. Ah nostalgia – they don’t make it like they used to, do they? A heart-warming story of the days when Trade Unions had a noble and valuable role. It was made very clear in the film that Labour was the party of the working classes and a creation of the well-intentioned unions. I can remember as a boy believing, as did my mother, that Barbara Castle was a paragon of the conviction politician, determined to bring about change and improvement. Good for her.

But the film also made clear that the unions themselves had a role in their own decline with the caricature of Bernie Inn Diplomacy; whole days off work for a ten-minute meeting, management and union officials alike ‘playing the game’ and missing the overall point of their existence and in fact often working against the interests of the very people they represented. Don’t you worry your pretty little heads about it, they told the women, we know best.

In their heads they had the stirring words of the Communist Party Manifesto Chapter II and longed for “[The] formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.” And blindly followed the party plans to destabilise society and reform it in the image of a utopia imagined fully a century earlier.

And here we are today. Where Marx and Lenin and Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini failed, Monnet and Spinelli and Herman Van Rompuy have played the long game and what we see all around us is a world that Marx may well have approved of. Marriage devalued, education defunct, religion fragmented and nobody trusting anybody else. A universal welfare society with ever more members, creating ever more precious 'equality'. To each according to his greed, from each according to what we can screw out of him. Down and down we sink.

Barbara Castle would have been would have been horrified to see where this was going, but the old Labour Party was too blunt an instrument to get any further than the 1970s and the enterprise culture of the 1980s destroyed collective action for good. That’s why New Labour had to be invented and why it had to embark on a programme of ‘progressive’ socialism to sell to a largely freed proletariat the notion not of unity, but of infinite merry variety. “Look at us, we’re fucking lovely!” said Tony Blair, “Things can ONLY get better!” (Few heard when he added, “…for me.”)

And all around Europe Marx’s other little helpers helped themselves to the reins, placed them in little Angela’s hands and helped her cracked the whip. Crack – there go the borders. Crack - there goes your currency. Crack – there go your freedoms and now you dare not speak out you belong to us. The Glorious Fatherland Project is almost complete.

Adolf Groucho Herman Marx

What is happening in Cyprus can and will happen elsewhere. You can see it happening, but you are powerless to resist. You can feel it coming for you and your family, but you have nothing left with which to fight it. Being IN Europe means entirely controlled BY Europe. Things can only begin to get better when we are out. And the EU's representative on earth, Dave-Ed Camiliclegg will NEVER let you have a say in that.


4 comments:

  1. Just got back from a short holiday in Cyprus no problems lovely and warm there! Don't speak Greek but could detect no real anger the only demo was a few dozen people people marching after dark in Larnaca little interest from the populace. Just seemed to be a fairly docile acceptance that things will be difficult but they hope to come through! Of course I imagine they (the people) knew that their foolish lending to Greece brought this on, and guess what yesterday was Greek independence day! and they had a parade with Greek and Cyprus flags and all the local dignitaries in attendance plus all the schools and scout groups plus some T.A's So they will never blame Greece. The Russian money merely allowed them to develop a financial industry which according to Germany is too big for a small economy! Are they not in the huge EU economy then? Of course I know another country with a financial sector that is too big for its economy (according to Brussels) don't you

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  2. I wrote Denis Healey a fan letter back in the day and I still have his reply..........ahh, the 1970s. My family has voted Labour for generations.......my poor mother refused to let me go to the evil grammar school and sent me to the labour controlled councils comprehensive cos of her political convictions. A few years late my cruddy education had her rethinking THAT policy and my baby brother went to the boys grammar to learn Latin whilst I rotted in the comprehensive. Ah, the good ole days .

    Bit of a doom laden post from you today............factual, but doom laden ; )

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    1. Considering what I REALLY think, I thought I was being quite upbeat! Look, a smiley! ~~> :o)

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  3. How very insightful of you

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