We Have Reached A Nadir

 

Evening,

I begun this post last night, in light of the new revelations that have been released to certain media sources, concerning what I alluded to below.  It has to be said that possibly not since the Profumo Affair that we have seen British politics scratching the wood off the bottom of the proverbial barrel.  Then we were talking about cabinet ministers actually lying to Parliament when they were questioned about the affair - of course, there was Cash for Questions, which again was ministers trying to manipulate people whilst using their power.

However, this is somewhat different and deeply alarming. 

On the one hand we have got a Prime Minister who it seems, if he is supposed to be believed, does not know what on earth is going on, over the other side of his office, where his 'senior advisor' is setting up websites, with lying psychotherapists and someone who had already been sacked from the Labour Party!  It will be interesting to see who else was in the loop - possibly Ed Bollocks, if the Times are to be believed...  As much as Lord Voldemort would like to wish, this is not going to die a death quickly...in fact Guido seems to be toying his readers with some further revelations for later this evening....

...and on the other, we have evidence that shows that when police were checking the private e-mails of the former Shadow Immigration Minister, they were looking for any collusion with the current General Secretary of Liberty - almost trying to kill two birds with one stone.  Possibly trying to get at someone else completely left-field?  Possibly the member for Haltemprice and Howden?

Is it really a wonder that the former Labour MP for Halifax Alice Mahon, has decided that enough is enough and has resigned from the party that she has served for 50 years.  She has seen the party changed irrevocably for the worse, as has all members of her vintage.  For every Alice Mahon, there will be hundreds of Labour activists who will simply drift away from the cause as well as thousands of Labour voters who will just stay at home come Election day.

I read an interesting and yet at the same time, the same old Labour spin, this afternoon from Nick Palmer, who did a guest column on PoliticalBetting, and his question was why was it that still some 30% of voters will still vote Labour - and you know what although he tried to put a case up, right now, people do not give a damn about Chairman Brown's five aims, because believe it or not, it does not put money in people's pockets. 

Let's take one of these five reasons, that Mr Palmer gave for us to keep supporting Labour.

Reducing both absolute and relative Child Poverty.

People are only interested in what affects them, and unfortunately for Labour, they did themselves great harm with the abolition of the 10p tax rate, which is the tax rate that the vast majority of those single mothers and those who live in the lowest 10% of the population.  Chairman Brown stipulated at the time, that he was going to be helping that same 10% of the population out of poverty? 

How?

By abolishing the 10% tax rate and introducing a one rate fits all for anyone under £18,000 per annum, he was pretty much guaranteeing that the lowest 10% of the population in fact was WORSE OFF than before.  It was only the intervention of several dozen Labour MPs with a social conscience that prevented an carbon copy repeat of the Poll Tax demonstrations.  No fucking kidding, that is how nasty the situation was back then.

With the country sliding into recession, thanks to Chairman Brown's lack of understanding that banks and building societies need more than someone keeping their eye outside their barn, it is nigh on inevitable that many hundreds of thousands of children will fall back into poverty before the year is out. 

And the saddest thing of all is that we are probably going to have to wait at the very least another decade before we have the opportunity to make that all right.  Still happy smearing your enemies, instead of doing what those of us on the Left wanted you to do, Gordon?

Fucking great thought that, isn't it.