Shit Sticks…

Afternoon,

As I alluded to yesterday afternoon, further revelations are continuing to be flooding out regarding our politicians and their expenses.  There seems to agreement by all parties that as more of the, shall we say lurid expenses come to light that Ministers are going to have to resign – in fact, if you believe reports in the press today, only three Ministers of State, Alan Johnson, Hilary Benn and Ed Miliband come out of this relatively clean, so to speak.  Chairman Brown does not need any more of this coming out, with the European elections in barely a month – analysis for the Sunday Times shows Labour is now trailing the Liberal Democrats as well as the Tories as it heads into the June 4 elections in 34 English local authorities.

Some other things that comes out of this poll, disturbs me very much as someone who would normally be voting for a party of the Left.  The Conservatives have a 14% cushion ahead of Labour, within the 18-34 age bracket – it has tended to be the case that young people tend to have more of a Left-Wing slant and have voted Labour or for one of the Far-Left parties, such as the SWP or in the case of the last election, Respect.  The Left in this country has been well and truly shafted by this government, it isn’t just the fascists who are getting support from disaffected Labour voters, those anarchists are as well…

The sleazy way that this government has tried to cover its tracks, whether it was the Murder of David Kelly, the Lies regarding WMD in Iraq, or the shambolic way that it has treated Gurkha veterans is amongst the most obscene episodes in British Political History.  And we are seeing it again, in regards of MPs expenses. 

When Labour rode into power in 1997 among a wave of euphoria, the Party promised that they would promised us a new era of fair play, but they have treated the parliamentary rulebook as if it were a “daisy-chain of loopholes” as described as such by Matthew D’Ancona in the Telegraph this morning.  Not wanting to forget that senior Tories and Lib Dems, are up to their necks in the brown stuff but why on earth wasn’t something done when Labour got into power in the first place?  They had used ‘Tory Sleaze’ almost as their chief electoral card when getting into office in the first place. Or is the truth was that the grass was always greener on the other side?

The bottom line is this though, Labour will never be able to use the term ‘Tory Sleaze’ ever again in their election literature.  Because as we all finding out to our cost, they are just as bad as each other…

Rob :(