When it comes to Labour, history just seems to keep on repeating itself. First they wreck the public finances (again) and lose office (again), now just like in the early 80s they are swinging dangerously back towards the old Left. During Labour’s leadership hustings at the GMB conference, in the suitably grim Southport, the bright-eyed hopefuls demonstrated they have clearly learnt nothing from Labour’s disastorous last years in government.
Andy Burnham told his Trade Union audience that Labour had listened too much to big business while Ed Miliband told them Labour in government hadn’t listened enough to…yes you guessed it…the Unions! Indeed Miliband (the younger) said that Labour had gone wrong precisely where it had neglected its core values. I wonder what those might be? The same core values in Michael Foot’s oh so popular 1983 manifesto perchance? Those would appear to be the days these people would want to return themselves to.
But perhaps the biggest surprise came when John McDonnell mirthfully told the audience that if he could do one thing to make the world a better place he would go back to the 80s and assassinate Thatcher. And for this he received the heartiest applause of the whole conference. How might he do it I wonder, with a bombing of a Hotel that would leave many bystanders dead and injured maybe, just as the IRA attempted to? Indeed in the past McDonnell has spoken glowingly of the IRA and how he believes it was their terrorism that helped spur on the peace talks.
Now all I can assume is that McDonnell and indeed most of the people at this conference must have spent the past 25 years in some obscure mining town cut off from the rest of the Britain; that is how far their politics seems to have progressed. For if they had travelled to just about any other part of the country then they could not have failed to notice how Thatcher’s revolution has immeasurably improved the British people’s lives and the Nation at large. Indeed Britons have gained more prosperity and opportunities for personal success as a result of Thatcher’s program than anyone ever could have imagined possible back when she took the reigns of a failing nation in 1979. The reason that Tony Blair was elected was because people thought New Labour had finally understood this.
If it turns out that Labour has in fact not understood that the British people now share Thatcher’s vision of property owning democracy and instead imagine that they want to be taken back to Mass Nationalisation, Cradle to Grave Welfarism, Council Houses, Heavy Industry, Coal, Soot, Unions, Strikes, Inflation, Unemployment, Shortages, Power Cuts, Rioting, Economic and Social Breakdown; then they will be out of power again for another political generation.
Andy Burnham told his Trade Union audience that Labour had listened too much to big business while Ed Miliband told them Labour in government hadn’t listened enough to…yes you guessed it…the Unions! Indeed Miliband (the younger) said that Labour had gone wrong precisely where it had neglected its core values. I wonder what those might be? The same core values in Michael Foot’s oh so popular 1983 manifesto perchance? Those would appear to be the days these people would want to return themselves to.
But perhaps the biggest surprise came when John McDonnell mirthfully told the audience that if he could do one thing to make the world a better place he would go back to the 80s and assassinate Thatcher. And for this he received the heartiest applause of the whole conference. How might he do it I wonder, with a bombing of a Hotel that would leave many bystanders dead and injured maybe, just as the IRA attempted to? Indeed in the past McDonnell has spoken glowingly of the IRA and how he believes it was their terrorism that helped spur on the peace talks.
Now all I can assume is that McDonnell and indeed most of the people at this conference must have spent the past 25 years in some obscure mining town cut off from the rest of the Britain; that is how far their politics seems to have progressed. For if they had travelled to just about any other part of the country then they could not have failed to notice how Thatcher’s revolution has immeasurably improved the British people’s lives and the Nation at large. Indeed Britons have gained more prosperity and opportunities for personal success as a result of Thatcher’s program than anyone ever could have imagined possible back when she took the reigns of a failing nation in 1979. The reason that Tony Blair was elected was because people thought New Labour had finally understood this.
If it turns out that Labour has in fact not understood that the British people now share Thatcher’s vision of property owning democracy and instead imagine that they want to be taken back to Mass Nationalisation, Cradle to Grave Welfarism, Council Houses, Heavy Industry, Coal, Soot, Unions, Strikes, Inflation, Unemployment, Shortages, Power Cuts, Rioting, Economic and Social Breakdown; then they will be out of power again for another political generation.
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