WintonsWeek Labour’s Failure On All Fronts Means Defeat On May 5 The Electorate Can’t Ignore Blair’s Corruption, Lies, Failure Labour seeks poorly educated, increasingly state dependent drones But What If The Nation’s Marbles Are Lost? “Any Labour term in government means that economic or political progress goes into reverse for the duration” Think of it as the Cretinisation Election Index. Or the dumbing- down moment. Has the electorate been sufficiently stupefied into believing something that has a distinct whiff of the cesspit, actually smells of roses? That question will answered on May 5. The corrupt jackals of the media are of course doing their bit. The BBC was leading its news reports last week with a Guardian and Times story that senior Tories were unhappy with leader Michael Howard’s success with the immigration issue. “Senior”, but of course, unnamed Tories were phoning each other and plotting to stop Howard. No matter that this story was completely free of named sources and had the odour of Blair’s Liar-In-Chief Alistair Campbell rising from it. The BBC continued to report the story without mentioning that there was nothing to back it up. Now we have the incident where BBC employees, wired for sound, disrupt a Tory meeting seeking to generate “news” on film hostile to Michael Howard. If Labour wins on May 5, after 8 years of failure, lying and the debasing of politics, it will mean that the country has finally lost its collective marbles and become a nation where the majority of the population clearly must be mentally retarded. But it will also have another, even scarier, meaning. Labour will have finally reached its goal – permanent power. They seek to do this by attacking the electorate with two main tactics - – dumb down education to the point where ordinary citizens finally are too cretinised to make sense of politics. – use the welfare state and government monopoly in health and education to make sure that the number of people dependent on government for their livelihood is in the majority, or enough to ensure power. This at least goes some way towards explaining why Labour and socialist governments do what they do. They all understand perfectly well (probably the arrogant, oaf 2-Jags Prescott hasn’t grasped this) that state delivery of health care through the NHS will debase standards and make things worse for the very people they claim to care most about – the poor. But the NHS delivers for Labour on two counts. As the organisation grows like topsy, millions more will be employed and be reluctant to jeopardise their jobs by voting Conservative. Millions of the less well off will be too scared by Labour lies to contemplate a market based system which will deliver world class health care. More Clients, More Votes Why should Labour seek to devalue the education system to the point that most citizens can barely read or write when they leave school? Labour apparatchiks understand perfectly that devaluing the education system will wreck opportunity for those they claim to care about the most – the poor. Why deny the poor the entry to higher education that the 11-plus delivered so superbly well? Because there is another, more important agenda; power for Labour. There are more benefit areas for Labour – make sure the populace loses its ability to use its brains to see the wood for the trees, taint the syllabus with left-wing lies, and grow the state education monopoly so that more and more of the population depend on it for a living. If you think I’m being overly cynical then explain this. How could a government with a miserable record like Labour apparently still command a lead in the opinion polls? I’m assuming they haven’t got the power to fiddle opinion polls, yet. Corrupt Postal Voting Let’s start with the most recent evidence of Labour’s debasement of our country. The list is incomplete. In the name of making democracy more accessible, we have an expanded postal voting system which in the words of a top judge has the level of security that would make a third world dictatorship blush. We have seen Labour councillors convicted of corruption in forging postal votes. This will also deliver votes to Labour in some of its northern rotten boroughs which might be wavering at the general election. In no particular chronological order consider this – The pension system, once the envy of Europe, has been ruined by Gordon Brown’s £5.3 billion annual tax raid. Nearly 1 million jobs have been created in the public sector, wasting vast sums of money and creating a dependent class. The constitution has been abused, with the creation of expensive talking shops and bureaucracies in Scotland and Wales. Parliament has been turned into a rubber stamp by the automatons of neo-Labour. Blair clearly has no respect for the institution. His attendance record bears this out, as does his cynical change of Prime Minister’s Questions to once a week, not two. The civil service has been undermined, and a culture of spin and lying is now the norm. Welfare Trap The Welfare State, which Tony Blair promised to reform in 1997, is out of control and encasing more citizens in the Welfare Trap. The NHS is tottering, and nowhere near delivering health care standards which are common in France, Germany and the United States. Education! Education! Education! Yea right. Examination standards have been devalued to the extent that a “D” grade” thirty years ago would earn an “A” grade today. Blair lied to the Commons when he sought approval for the war in Iraq. Labour’s fellow travellers wouldn’t go for President Bush’s regime change. They needed to be told that Saddam posed a threat to Britain. Blair, helped by Alistair Campbell (LIC), contrived such a threat, which didn’t exist. Class War, Envy The House of Lords is on the verge of destruction. Labour said it is determined to “reform” it, but has omitted to come up with a reform plan. Hunting has been banned. If you seek evidence of Labour class war and envy, seek no more. Transport is in chaos. Speed cameras entrap the innocent and hand out outrageous, over-the-top penalties. That’s a pathetic indictment of failure. It was understandable that with precious little evidence of success at the 2001 election (that’s because there wasn’t any) that the British voter, as determined as ever to see the best in people, refused to turf out Labour, thinking that the party deserved 2 terms to show what it could do. Now, the evidence is overwhelming that Labour has failed, and will continue to fail. Its philosophy dooms it to failure. Some of us know that, and realise that any Labour term in government means that economic or political progress goes into reverse for the duration. Malign Effects At least this time, Labour has dumped some of its truly dangerous ideas like nationalisation. At least there was no new equivalent of the Welfare State and National Health Service, the malign effects of which are proving difficult to shake off more than 50 years later. Minette Marrin, a commentator whom I normally revere and agree with, came up with an untypical piece of cynicism in a recent column. Yes, it is displeasing that the population has turned off and is paying no attention, and is therefore willing to vote Labour in again, she said. But she also says quite seductively that this in fact is a good election to lose. Labour’s chickens will inevitably come home to roost. A Tory victory would simply mean being blamed for the bad times ahead, inevitably induced by Labour’s tenure in power. I don’t buy that. I’m hoping that my cretinisation theory is wrong and that the British people will turf out and humiliate these Labour vandals and fools. I’m confident that if the Tories win and the economy crumbles, people will be intelligent and sophisticated enough to know who is to blame. Shrugging ones shoulders for another Labour victory means that even more time will be lost pointing the nation back on the right track. If we don’t prise them out now, we might never be able too. Neil Winton – April 25, 2005 Top