The case for Labour (if you give your brain the day off)
Tom Harris has posted this video of Gordon Brown listing New Labour’s “achievements”.
I imagine it sounds very convincing – to those who allow themselves to be drowned in the sea of grand ideas and emotion.
This is what I told Tom:
Any thinking person would question almost everything on this list of ‘achievements’. I don’t have the time or will to demolish everything, but from the first half of the list…
Winter Fuel Allowance – A pittance given to old folk at Christmas compared to what the state pension should be – all year round.
Crime down by a third – If this is true, which I doubt, is it because people can’t be bothered reporting many crimes because NuPlod is disinterested in pursuing real criminals half the time in order to meet targets and so has become antagonistic towards the law-abiding citizen to achieve this with less effort and danger?
Record results in schools – You know that’s a joke, surely? Making exams easier and easier to make New Labour look good, surely just shows the level of political interference in state education.
More students than ever – and fewer tradesmen, and more NEETS. You’ve got the balance all wrong to the detriment of British industry and many individual lives and families, incl. record debt for those leaving further education.
Devolution – Divide and rule. Obvious when even a cheaper prescription in Scotland and Wales can cause such furious reactions in our normally gentle English friends.
I could go on and on. You know that, don’t you?
What do you think about one or more of New Labour’s achievements?
How about:
Record levels of GBH, Manslaughter and Murder, all at the highest levels ever.
Mass drug and alcohol abuse in the nation, all at highest levels ever.
Mass unemployment, highest recorded levels ever, even if you allow all the accounting scams to get the figures down.
Highest levels of Clinical Depression treated with ‘medicine’ ever, including 5 year olds.
Worst levels of numeracy and literacy ever recorded since school attendance became compulsory.
Highest levels of fraud and corruption in MP’s, ever, most of them Labour.
3 (maybe 4, if you count Sierra Leone) illegal wars, based on lies and fabricated evidence.
50,000 old people dying from poverty and cold related diseases ANNUALLY, according to Help the Aged.
The undermining of the institution of marriage in preference for the promotion of dirty perversions.
Massive expansion of State powers and controls, over 3000 new imprisonable offenses over the last 10 years, including letting someone smoke in your house.
Abortion available on demand, as a form of contraception. Almost 200,000 babies slaughtered ANNUALLY.
Mass immigration, undermining British culture, religion, identity, security, employment, housing and law and order.
Paying militant Islamic terrorists millions in benefits and then calling anyone who objects a racist.
There’s more, if you want it.