Okay, it's only a minute and a half long and has no-one speaking at all, but it's a useful reminder of what we have in this country now, and what (it is being proposed) would happen under a Conservative Government at Westminster. I hope the party has the opportunity to show that it really can be done, after the next General Election...
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
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Yes, very swish and catchy.
The trouble is that people remember the tories for sleaziness, the red tape that binds the police through PACE, the care in the community that allowed vulnerable people back onto the streets, the local authority budget cuts, the poll tax riots and so on.
Today we have Labour sleaze. Teflon Tony said they would be Whiter than White.
We had 24 hours in which to save the health service which is worse than useless, crippled in some areas due to our loss of border controls.
Education, education, education. That's a laugh, looking at the latest figures which tell us that we are producing illiterate kids at senior school level.
Tough on crime, tough on the causes etc... Don't make me laugh.
So, we are thoroughly fed up with the slogans. Ordinary people like me are fed up with politicians who have had their snouts in the trough at our expense, who, once in power couldn't give a damn about the voters until there is another fight for power. In the meantime they just rip us off.
Prescott, Blair, Currie and Major -the colour of politics changes, but the sleaze is the same.
Dave - call me Tony if you like - Cameron comes across as a privileged prat. Riding a bike with his lackey following in a limousine is typical of the stunts that ALL politicians like to pull, and the public are wise to it.
Have a look at www.order-order.com, and see the strength of feeling regarding MPs.
I wish the tories well, I've voted Conservative all my life, but Call Me Dave needs to take a reality check, and get closer to the feelings of the man in the street.
Rant over.
I agree with much of what has been said here. The main difference we now realise (but didn't in those days -- and I am as guilty as anyone else here) is that the Conservatives accused of sleaze were acting only individually, whereas the Labour sleaze has the strong smell of being institutionalised and endemic within that Party.
Humans are fallible, but institutions need to be much better than the lowest of their members. It's a useful aide-memoire concerning public service.
The Mohammed Al-Fayed performances even put into doubt the Neil Hamilton accusations, so we cannot even be sure that the sleaze of the Conservative years in Government was entirely accurate anyway.
Oh, the benefits of hindsight and later knowledge...
Regarding (Guido's site), I have been an avid watcher of that site for some time now -- indeed, you can find a link to it in my Blogroll -- and am pleased that he is so even-handed rather than being slanted toward any particular political party.
Even then, though he is very valuable, I don't slavishly accept everything he puts out at face value. Perhaps I have seen too much of the Real World(TM) to be too one-dimensional in my thinking.
Do you think my approach is wrong? I'm sure it's far from perfect, but I'd appreciate any input that might help me refine my way of dealing with all that is going on "out there".
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