Bean / Forgotten

One of the most memorable quotes from the House of Commons' Prime Minister's Questions sessions of 2007 was Vince Cable (then acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Commons) quoting a line from elsewhere that referred to Gordon Brown as "having gone from Stalin to Mr Bean".

Everyone remembers the "Mr Bean" part of that line, but the "Stalin" reference is rarely mentioned beyond being part of the quote. In today's Britain, we would all be well advised to re-visit this aspect of that reference.

Taking an analytical approach, one would be hard pressed to perceive any substantial difference between today's Britain and the former USSR. We have already seen huge centralisation of control with local opinion being marginalised, public services pursuing State-imposed targets rather than doing their real jobs, and profligate waste of the people's money. We are now well aware of the propaganda, control of the media and "spin" in general that has dominated the public image of the New Labour Government, as well as their propensity to feather their own nests at public expense.

We must all by now have realised how the distortion of "rights" has been so severely slanted in favour of groups of people preferred by the Government, to the detriment of all the ordinary decent folk in our nation, has led to a country of cowed subjects who dare not speak or behave in anything other than a very restrained and severely restricted manner. This is artificial, skewed and grossly unfair. It is also unnatural, as is the behaviour that is now permissible.

All of this will be very familiar to students of the Soviet Union of yesteryear.

So, what will come next? Well, those of us who have been watching what has been going on in this country for some years will already have our own predictions, based on what a Communist (or similar) dictatorship would need to do in order to effectively guarantee its future in power.

One obvious requirement would be to indoctrinate the next generation of voters -- partly in case any extant electoral system hasn't been eliminated, and partly to reduce the risk of revolution against the ruling classes. This means dominating the school curriculum.

Couldn't happen here, you say? Wrong! It is already happening! Modern history as taught in schools is to be re-written to suit our national Government. See HERE.

It is interesting to note in passing that it is the Teaching Unions that are opposing this, despite their long-standing association with the Labour Party...

This move by Brown's Government is if anything potentially even more dangerous than anything that has gone before.

The only safeguard we have is our own alertness, combined with the sheer incompetence of our own "Mr Bean", who is making fairly heavy weather of clumsily stumbling through the introduction of ever more Stalin-esque (and/or similar far-left State domination) policies. He is hampered by the differences between the limited media access to information in the twentieth century and the far broader and more open capabilities of the twenty-first. There have been several announcements of attempts to control even those (which is a total give-away of their true intentions!) but these are being strongly resisted by those non-governmental outfits that would need to be complicit in such exercises.

In this truly Orwellian age, we all need to think ahead and realise just how serious our position has already become. It is not far from being too late to do something decisive about it, so we must all (yes, that means you as well, dear reader!) remain alert to the dangers present and future, and ensure that we never again allow any political group to hold such power over us. No-one who promotes the kind of State control over our lives that I have outlined here should ever be given such authority again.

Thus, using logic (and, no doubt, Occam's Razor) this means that no-one but no-one should ever vote Labour again, and certainly not in a General Election. This is vitally important! No excuses and no exceptions, whatsoever. It's as clear-cut as that.