Now with Labour almost at the completion of their Brighton Conference Jamboree, I think it important that we do not smear all its spokesmen with the reputation of Damien McBride, any more than we should regard the disgusting Chris Huhne as representative of the Lib Dems, or for that matter embarrassing Conservative anti-gay Dinosaurs as representative of their party either. It is fair to judge what Ed Balls and Ed Miliband are saying now in the light of what they did as the Blair/Brown government: wrecked our economy, bloated the size and scope of govt and the govt/public sector, ignored the scandalous mistreatment of patients, diversion of money into the pockets of fat-cat managers in the NHS, opened our frontiers to uncounted uncontrolled, unlimited immigration, and left the incoming govt with a mostly treading water, three steps forward two back burden of govt debt. Confession of sins must come before penitence, and so far we have seen little of either at Brighton this week. Whatever their personal animosities, Mr Balls and Mr Miliband remain united in their peculiar belief common to those ignorant of basic human behaviour, that raising rates of business taxes will yield revenue without encouraging businesses (and the jobs they bring) not to move their premises to nations with lower taxes. Similarly, although they half mumble from the corners of their mouths that working should always pay better than welfare dependency, they remain emotionally committed to policies which achieve the reverse. Why? Because people tend to vote Tory the better off they become, and as Labour, if the poor become better off, your voter base shrinks. This is known as "Real Politik". In one respect at least, however, they have learned from the Coalition. The glib declaration that a Labour government would compel companies employing workers from outside the EU to provide an equal number of apprenticeships had not been thought through, for of course EU law would prohibit those posts from being reserved for British workers.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:32:15 +0000
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