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May 03, 2006

Guest Post

The only entrant to my little competition earlier - the mystery photo - came from Slimjim, so he duly gets his prize, a Guest Post on this blog.

Whilst Rome is Burning

Well, the meltdown of New Labour is continuing, despite the best efforts of the Downing Street press machine. We are witnessing the outcome of the lies of the New Labour Project, as the chickens are coming home to roost.

Just exactly what have this sorry bunch of criminals and political chancers achieved over the last 9 years? Despite what we are spoon-fed, the record is not particularly good, is it? If we could highlight what encapsulates New Labour and their achievements, what would our list look like?

• Lies
• Deception
• Higher taxes
• Increased public spending
• Decrease in manufacturing base
• Restrictions on freedom
• Massive increase in legislation
• Massive rise in immigration
• Very little environmental improvements
• An illegal war based on lies
• Downgrading of traditional family & Christian values
• Promotion of homosexuality and other minority causes
• Explosion of political correctness

I could go on, but I think you must be getting the picture by now! Am I being too negative? In the interests of fairness and balance, let’s look at their positive achievements:

• Healthy economy (for now, but wait and see what happens if Brown keeps on increasing his spending & borrowing)
• Low inflation
• Low interest rates (N.B. the last 2 are more to do with the Bank of England than no. 11)
• Better pensions (for MPs!)
• Best year for the NHS (OK, I’m really taking the mickey now…)

Oops, I seem to have run out of ideas! Please feel free to add to the list if you can…

So where does this leave us? What exactly will Blair’s legacy mean to most of us? Well, as I see it, our democracy and Parliamentary processes and procedures have been hijacked by an oligarchy of self-serving professional politicians, failed lawyers and trades unionists. Their raison d’etre was to gain power and retain it whatever the cost. The end justifies the means. But forgive me for asking - what is the end? This schizophrenic regime is unsure whether it is socialist or capitalist. It wants to be both. It also wants to fool all the people all of the time. It certainly seems to pressing ahead with redistribution of wealth, whilst entirely neglecting to ensure that we are producing wealth too! The third way?

The only difference between the current UK set-up and a Third World dictatorship is that we are allowed the dubious privilege of electing our dictator! I have no doubt in my mind, as I am sure you have too, that we need urgent and drastic changes to safeguard democracy in our country. Who will deliver that change? That’s the big problem we face. Turkeys wouldn’t vote for Christmas, so who is going to make the difference? Why, it’s you, dear voter. You have the power to make a difference. Not voting is not going to make things better, unless we all put ‘none of the above’ on our ballot papers. Making us vote compulsorily isn’t the way to go either. Have you noticed how lazy this government is? It doesn’t feel the need to educate, persuade and inform us of the errors of our ways. It’s much easier to pass laws and criminalise us in the process.

Finally, back to the title of this post. Whilst Bliar is fiddling, why exactly are we in this mess? I believe that this is due to 3 main reasons:

1. Power is concentrated too much at the centre of government, thus making it harder to be accountable democratically;
2. This is the most mendacious administration in British history, and liars always get found out in the end!
3. Policy is based mainly on political ideology, rather than the public interest.

Due to the above, we have witnessed an absolute erosion in trust and credibility of the executive. Essentially, this rotten government has been found out, and is no longer fit to govern.

I would like to thank the Monk for giving me this opportunity to communicate and to you for taking the time to read this. Thank you.

Slimjim

Posted by The Gray Monk at May 3, 2006 09:09 AM

Comments

Posted by: Slim Jim at May 3, 2006 03:43 PM

Posted by: The Gray Monk at May 3, 2006 04:55 PM

Posted by: Slim Jim at May 3, 2006 08:07 PM