A common joke the Liebour Party love to use against David Cameron is calling him Dave Chameleon because they accuse him of changing his colours. However personally I feel this title is much more worthy of Gordon Brown who has been changing his stance on issues more than the Talbot Gateway plans keep getting changed.
A couple of weeks/months ago he much to my great annoyance decided to go down the typical socialist route of class attacks. Basically; childish namecalling and sniping at Conservatives just because they had the fortune to be born into well-off families and attended very good schools. It makes me sad seeing such childish and underhand tactics from so-called ‘grown-ups’, and even more saddened that Labour voters lap this stuff up. I think people who vote based on class don’t deserve to vote. I always cast my vote based on politics, the candidates and in the case of an incumbent their track record as an MP.
Much to my delight however Brown’s childish and hypocritical class war backfired and even his own public-school educated cronies were telling him to grow up. The average Labour voter may be gullible enough to be bought off with such below the belt tactics but people with minds of their own see right through it.
So red-faced Brown and his schoolground playmate Ed Balls cheekily tried to palm it off as a ‘joke’ ‘a bit of Commons banter’, rubbish I say and another typical trait of a Labour politician, never admiting they are wrong.
So his next move is just even more laughable after alienating ‘Middle England’ with his schoolground bullying he suddenly as if by magic decides ‘I love the middle classes, I am your friend and I am so proud of my middle class upbringing’. So let me get this straight you get a good job or run a successful business, buy a nice house and send your children to a private school and Brown labels you a ‘toff’. Then when he realises ‘That doesn’t win votes’ He suddenly decides he is your best friend instead, what a lying hypocrite.
The other week he spouted just about the biggest load of codswallop I have heard in his short-lived Premiership. He said “A fair society is one where everyone who works hard and plays by the rules has a chance to fulfil their dreams whether that’s owning a bigger house, taking a holiday abroad, buying a new car or starting a small business”. Sounds like a nice vision to me, but coming from a socialist I don’t believe a word of it. Socialists don’t believe in aspiration and success. Socialism is the politics of jealousy and envy.
I have ‘middle class’ aspirations myself, I want to start a family in years to come, succeed in my career and buy a bigger house one day’. But I do not believe for a second that a Labour Government is going to help me get there.
Labour the party of the middle class? Don’t make me laugh, you try and get yourself or your kids a good education Labour pummels you with unfair tuition fees, you buy a nice house Labour punishes you with stealth taxes and you earn a middle class income and Labour batters you with ‘taxes for the well off’. It shall be a cold day in Hell before Labour is the party of the middle classes.
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Excellent post and you are of course absolutely right. Labour will do anything to stay in power and if that means telling outright lies like being the party of the middle class then they will do it.
Another example would be Gordons constant referrals to the Tory policy on inheritance tax. I think that tax should be scrapped personally because every penny of an estate has been taxed already. But Gordon keeps saying that everyone who’d benefit from lifting the tax threshhold would be on DC’s Christmas card list.
It’s crap. A lot of houses particularly in the south went up massively in value in the boom years and would exceed the tax threshold, and this is a prime example of Robin Hood politics; heavy taxation on the middle class to pay for the benefits nightmare.
The class war is underhand, negative campaigning but when your legacy is a ruined, scorched earth; smearing the opposition is probably the best bet.
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Spot on Phil, I forgot to mention the Inheritance Tax. I notice how everytime the Conservatives make any kind of tax policy announcement Labour brings that up. You are right in London and the Home Counties houses have rocketed in value in recent years so many middle class professionals like lawyers, top doctors and company directors own big houses with massive mortgages and Brown is punishing them just for being well-off.
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Well yes – though Labour have increased the IHT threshold to £325k,the annual increases really haven’t kept in line with house price inflation. And whilst they like to make out it is a tax on estates there’s no allowance for it the inheritor wants to actually LIVE in the house rather than convert it to cash. Rather than tinker with limits I’d like to see it altered so that if you move into the house and sell your own, do not own any other property, and don’t sell it within 5 years (or even 7, a figure popular in IHT) and prove that you actually live there and don’t rent somewhere else then there’s no tax on the property element. It would make life hard for those already rich whilst really improving the lives of those currently struggling to afford a decent house themselves.
Labour isn’t the party of aspiration – it’s the party of desperation.
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But why the need to always hammer people whose families have been successful and responsible with their cash?
Just because David Cameron’s family might be loaded, doesn’t mean the system should seek to take it all off them, bit by bit, as the wealth transcends generations.
That’s the politics of envy and it sucks.
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1 I don’t think you can call this present New Labour Government a socialist party it’s a bit like calling the BNP a bit liberal. I agree I think IHT should be scraped but its probably wrong to do it now when the new government will be looking at tax raises and cutting back on spending. To lose a stream of revenue in these times would be fiscally stupid and to increase tax on working people (who in my mind are heavily tax at present) while reducing (or abandon) IHT would be wrong. However I do think Frustrated idea is a clever one.
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Apologies John, I don’t know how but your post ended up in my spam box so I’ve posted it anyway.
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Compared to nulours zeal for centalisation and authoritarianism, the BNP are liberal in comparison to Nu labour.
Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian regime was one of a socialist one:Ingsoc.
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Orwells 1984 government wasn’t a socialist one after all he was a socialist himself
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Ingsoc is an abbreviation for English Socialism,he forsaw what socialism could easily become TOTALITARIAN.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingsoc
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In the essay “Why I Write” (1946), Orwell described himself as a Democratic Socialist, thus, his 16 June 1949 letter to Francis A. Henson, of the Unite Automobile Workers, about the excerpts published in Life (25 July 1949) magazine and the The New York Times Book Review (31 July 1949), Orwell said:
My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter), but as a show-up of the perversions . . . which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. . . . The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else, and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.
So Orwell says its not about Socialism but you a crapiapedia know best.
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Worrying, then, how 1984 is referenced ever more frequently in modern society in relation to nannying and big brother laws.
What does that make us? Communist?
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No the book was about the threat of totalitarianism weather it be communism, or fascism or in New Labours case the fear of identity fraud and Terrorism. You have to ask yourself why am I a white middle age middle class man with 4 kids an £x0000 mortgage two cars being treated like I am planning to blow up a plane when I go on holiday twice a year. What terrorist profile do I fall into? Or is this all about control?
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I’ve never read it, perhaps I should get myself a copy.
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No other party has destroyed traditional values of hard work and personal responsibility as much as the Ultra leftist/culturally marxist Labour party.
The only aspiration(s) that this party has/have created is that of welfareism and victimism.
Go on the dole, have lots of kids, especially disabled ones and you have hit the jackpot, the route to a secure financial future of sponging and reproducing is guaranteed, in Brownken Britain.
Then you can play the victim and Nulabour really loves you, especially if you fit into of their beloved minority groups.You are labelled as opressed, thereby by implication labelling the hard working majority as oppressors.What a formula to undermine social cohesion.
Socialism is desocialising society and this government is absolute proof of it.
The gap has widened and we have ethnic division on top of that.
Socialism’s founding pillars are laziness,hatred, and jelousy; in fact its the 6th deadly sin and by far the most socially destructive.
Gordon Brown’s comments about helping the middle class are as credible as Adolf Hitler saying hes had 7 Bar Mitzvahs.
If he wants to help, then he should resign along with his ragtag motley crew of marxist rabble, who constitute his mickey mouse government.
He has forgotten that the middle class came for the working class, who employed the values of the work ethic and personal responsibility to get where they are and NOT sponge and play the victim.
His government is a total and utter SOCIAL DEBASEMENT.
Only when he goes with his henchmen and women, can this country start to achieve the level of social,moral,legal and educational excellence it once had.
Roll on May 2010.
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1984 wasn’t about socialism some made that connection as Orwell was a socialist I think they were wrong. s
(NB. Apologies for the delay your comment ended up in my spam box again)
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