Why did the outgoing Labour Government
throw the election away? I will
concede that as a Prime Minster, Gordon Brown was un-electable,
ex-chancellors do not necessarily make good Prime Ministers.
However the Labour party didn’t have to let him rise
to this position un-apposed, unless, maybe they had another
agenda in mind.
You may remember when Tony Blair won the election against
John Major. Tony Blair stood on the steps of number 10, and
thanked the electorate for voting him in, and then with quiet
humility commiserated with John Major for losing. Blair
said it was an unfair fight for John Major; he had to fight
his own party, as well as the labour party. This time
it was the turn of the Labour party to lose, Gordon Brown
didn’t have the ability to fight the Conservative party,
the Liberal Democrats party, and the Labour party all at the
same time, you could say the amount of votes the Labour party
got, was in effect a good result considering the opposition
of three parties, and the £millions the Conservatives
spent on advertising.
At RFT we had a competition
with a prize of £100 for the first driver, or contractor
to spot a hoarding with a Labour advert on it during the run
up to the elections. Nobody won the £100.
Gordon Brown, like him or not, is a man of morals. Nick Clegg
gave the labour party an ultimatum sack the Prime Minister
and you have a coalition, otherwise I am not playing. With
1 man wrapping himself in the power to sack the then current
Prime Minister, would have degraded British politics further
than could be tolerated by any government.
The American style of electioneering that this election was
run on has proved that as in America, if you throw enough
money around you can buy the top job. We had an American style
TV debate, with personalities being the winner. Why we had
to copy the American strategy, when they had just rejected
it by electing Barrack Obama, I don’t know!
We now have a coalition government, which nobody wanted, and
nobody likes. All the promises in their respective manifestos
were simply discarded in favour of greed and power. Nobody
likes them, including the coalition themselves. The conservatives
don’t like the Lib Dems for selling their party
out. The Lib Dems had to agree to the terms their leader had
made, before they saw them. The Lib
Dems don’t like the Tories, and are complaining
they are the whipping boys taking all the blame. The LibDems
won one concession, to have a referendum on the Alternative
Voting system [A.V.] which they are now regretting fixing
a date. I wonder why?
The coalition did one good thing;
they set up the Office of Budget Responsibility,
a supposed independent organisation housed in the treasury
building with treasury staff. The
trouble was that as they were supposedly independent they
told the truth. They confirmed the Labour
party’s proposals would
create more jobs, and cost the tax payer less, the direct
opposite of what the Coalition had proposed. It didn’t
take the treasury and David Cameron long to sabotage the O.B.R.
If you read the article about Sir
Alan buds resignation, you can be forgiven for thinking
that the methods used to undermine, and censor the O.B.R,
are reminiscence of countries headed by Dictatorships.
What ever plans Labour had when they threw the election away,
their present strategy is hard to work out, you never hear
anything about them!
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