The Conservative Party is one
that supports mass immigration whether it be from the European Union, Africa or
Asia and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Their heart may not be in it but
their head certainly is, otherwise why would David Cameron keep openly promising
on an annual basis to substantially reduce mass immigration into the United
Kingdom and year after year fail to do so. Not simply fail but indeed see it vastly increase year after year. It’s a
plain fact that he and his Home Office have really taken no concrete or
practical steps to curtail its numbers, thus turning the promises he regularly
makes into highly questionable statements of intent. Had he intended to keep
these promises then he would have done so. That being the case one can only question
the sincerity of that intent.
The Conservative Party is, I
repeat, a Party of mass immigration. The free movement of cheap Labour drives
down the cost of wages, something which suits the interests of employers and
business, its natural allies. Conversely it is not a Party with a supportive
disposition towards the organization of Labour and workers organizations such
as trades unions. However it performs the great political trick of actually
existing on behalf of the few with most of its support coming from a thin majority
of the many! In the last five years of Conservative led Coalition Government
most Public Sector workers along with many millions of others employed in
retail and the service sector have had their wages frozen or seen increases
well below the level of inflation. They’ve seen a serious decline in their
standard of living, fuelled let it be said by double and triple the rate of
inflation rises in their utility bills. The undoubted initial cause of this
deadly deterioration was the disastrous and grossly irresponsible investment
policies of British banks facilitated let it be said, by the deregulation of
checks on their conduct by Gordon Brown’s Labour Government.
The Labour Party and its recent
Governments have much to answer for. Before the time of the great post Second
World War Labour Government and even up to the years of Harold Wilson and
beyond the Labour Party, with its close links to the trades unions, was viewed
as the political Party that stood
for the rights and interests of working people. And maybe it still was before
Tony Blair and his friends took over its leadership, but from the mid 1990s it
passed through a substantial political change, a comprehensively abandoning its
socialist policies such as they were to become a Party of New Labour, something
fundamentally different. Its leadership refused to repeal Margaret Thatcher’s
anti-trades union legislation and quickly made it clear they were no longer
willing to continue with its one time close relationship with the unions. In
fact they turned their backs on the trades union movement and presented a more
than friendly face to Tory right wing newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch, once an
arch supporter of Thatcher. In short, in turning their backs on more than 100
years of the history of the Party they rejected all the old socialist values of
the Labour Movement which had in the past created the National Health Service
and free Secondary and Higher Education and instead turned their face towards
business. From 1997 the Old Labour Party died along with its values of social
justice and equality and became something very different indeed.
Almost immediately free higher
education, so important for bright working class students, was abandoned and
the National Health Service opened its doors to privatization.
Today, it’s very difficult to
know what the Labour
Party is and what it actually stands for, but many of its social policies from
1997 provide us with a very fair clue. From that time on, in fact almost from
the day Blair and his acolytes took power the Labour Government became wedded
to the idea of mass immigration and multiculturalism. Initially the flood gates
were opened to a great wave of immigrants from south-east Asia, particularly Pakistan
and Bangladesh. In ten years more than five million Muslim immigrants from
these countries with religious beliefs and practices so very different to the
Christian tradition of worship in the UK and from a culture fundamentally alien
to that which prevailed in the industrial areas of the Midlands and North of
England settled in large numbers in what was once the industrial heartland of
Britain. This vast wave or mass immigration was welcomed without a murmur and
throughout the entire period no-one in Blair’s New Labour Government sought to
consult the British people or ask their opinion. In fact, such was their
determination to press ahead with their policy that they presented the view that
to ask any questions of any kind about the new multiculturalism and sudden appearance
of millions of south-east Asian Muslims was likely to warrant the accusation of
racist bias or bigotry.
Actually this was New Labour playing the race card in reverse! Anyone
questioning their immigration policies clearly had a touch of the nasties about
them and with the aid of the BBC all forms of criticism were duly suppressed
and anyone opening their mouth was accused of racism! That said, what New Labour
actually stood for during this time in respect of its immigration policy was
plain intolerance! The same circumstance reoccurred during the last years of
Blair Government with its open encouragement of mass immigration from East
Europe, particularly Poland. The two million Poles who quickly took up
residence were welcomed as economic migrants, people who had little to no
interest in permanent settlement in Britain but were here purely to exploit
economic opportunity along with all the services and financial benefits this
country freely provides from the taxes of its citizens. It became a mantra for
New Labour politicians when justifying the arrival of the vast number of
immigrants to our shores from east Europe to say that they were taking jobs
that British workers, particularly those that were young, didn’t want. This
entirely false accusation was magnified into a wider calumny that British youth
were lazy and preferred to live on state benefits rather than work.
This generalized attack on
British working people, unemployed more often than not due to the collapse of
traditional industrial occupations, met with no fierce condemnation from
Blair’s New Labour and alas became a kind of stick widely used by the Tory media
to dispirit and demoralize all those many millions of our working and
unemployed poor who slowly drifted into the Underclass. New Labour’s
immigration policies in effect created a reserve army of cheap labour for their
new found friends in business. This said, what then is the difference today if between
the social and economic policies of the two main political Parties? Well take a
look from any direction you like and you’ll find little to separate the two.
There is no real difference. The Tories are blatant in turning a blind eye to
the rascal misconduct of all their friends in the Financial Services Sector
while Labour just wants to keep all the misdeeds under wraps or give it an
altogether more human face. Neither Party has anything substantial to offer the
working man except perhaps for this. That Cameron and his Liberal Democrat
playmates are just a gang of unrequited rascals while the supposedly social
democrat Miliband seeks to somehow ameliorate the economic catastrophe caused
in main by his former boss Dark Gordon.
You know the intentions of a
future Conservative Government from George Osborne’s recent budget. The recent
offering by the current Coalition to increase the minimum hourly wage by a
handful of pence was an absolute disgrace to the many millions of British
workers who receive it, particularly the young. Shameful really when one considers
the billions of pounds they print on monthly basis and hand to the banks in the
process of Quantitative Easing which actually means just printing money they
haven’t got in the first place! A contemptuous handful of coppers for the poor
and a shameless handing out piles of printed money to the banking executives!
Tiny percentage increases in pensions and tiny tax reduction sweeteners to
small investors, but then massive incentives to the tax avoidance rascals with
a few promises chucked in to get tough which can only raise a laugh in the
boardrooms. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of our students are stuck with
impossible debt for the fees they still have to pay.
And all of this Scrooge-like
miser approach in the name of the deficit and with much worse to come if they
are re-elected with appalling future cuts throughout the entire range of public
services. A vote for the Conservatives is indeed a vote for a future massive
attack on any Welfare State we have left including the NHS.
So what then does the Labour
Party stand for and what is any future Labour Government likely to do? Thin
on the ground as any of their promises may be, certain things are for sure.
Miliband will protect the NHS; he will reduce the terrible burden of debt on
students by reducing their fees and he will seriously increase the miserly
minimum wage along with ending the wretched overall situation in employment
practices by scaling down zero hours contracts and ending the fearful state of
insecurity suffered by millions of workers. And best of all perhaps there might
be the eventual promise of A Living Wage to the many who currently can’t make
ends meet. If it looks good and sounds good it comes with a price, that of the
possibility of further increases in immigration, but then it would be no worse
at all to what the Tories have been dishing up. In addition however there’d be Labour’s
continuing commitment to the EU with no promise at all of a Referendum that
would let the British people decide. The Tories will always be Tories but with
Miliband there just might be the guarantee that the ghastly mistakes of his
predecessor Gordon Brown would not be repeated
The Conservatives stand for thin
smears of jam for the many and chocolate cake for the few. It says a great many
things. We all love chocolate after all and it’s a kind of incentive for more
of us to get our hands on it. That’s why so many people voted for Thatcher time
after time. They wanted something more than the jam. They might have been
entirely unrealistic but they were always hopeful. She damaged their community
spirit and turned them into chocolate hopeful individualists. A greedy dream of
the rich and tasties! Previously Labour badly let its electorate down so maybe
Miliband has learned the lesson and won’t repeat the dreadful mistake. If he
promises to protect the health of the nation then he’ll probably do it, tax the
wealthy and much more generously spread out the jam.
As for the Liberal Democrats facing
a hiding… they’ll promise everything because they’ve nothing to lose. They conspired
with the Tories over the last five years to make the poor pay for the bankers and
despite what they say about them saving the country, well you have to be either
stupid or a fanatic not to know that they’re a bunch of plain liars.
More about the Clegg Gang in my next
post!
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