I was never a great fan of Tony Blair and the New Labour project, to put it mildly, but recent revelations about the sordid behaviour of its leading lights have shocked even me.
Firstly, the revelations about the links between the National Council for Civil Liberties and the Paedophile Information Exchange. It's all very well for the likes of Particia Hewitt, who was the General Secretary of the organisation in the1970s, to claim that she had been "naïve and wrong to accept PIE's claim to be a ‘campaigning and counselling organisation that ‘does not promote unlawful acts’," but can we believe that a woman who allegedly called for incest to be legalised and the age of consent to be lowered to ten was really that naive?
Then we have the man at the top, Teflon Tony himself, granting an amnesty to 187 murderous IRA thugs in order to seal the Good Friday Agreement. This sordid behaviour has only come ot light following the collaprse of the trial of one othe men accused of the Hyde Park bombings of 1982.
I am no fan of socialsm, but the Labour Party of Keir Hardie, of Rmasay Macdonald, Clem Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell at least sought to improve the lot of the working classes. These men may have been misguided, but they were genuine and honourable. I dread to think what they would have thought of this behaviour by their successors. Indeed, they would hardly recognise today's politically-correct nanny-statist Labour Party as the party to which they once belonged.
While I have often mentioned on this blog my longing for Cameron's Tory Party to implode and something truly Conserevative to emerge from its ashes, the need for the Labour Party to collapse is even greater. It no longer serves the working man. It is only fit for perverts, murderous thugs, whingers and scroungers. No person with any self-respect should ever vote Labour. One can only hope that if - God Forbid - Ed Miliband does win next year's election that he will prove as equally catatrophic a leader as his French socialist counterpart François Hollande, whose popularity plumbed unprecedented depths for a French President barely a year after taking office. Fortunately, given that Hollande has managed to become so unpopular so quckly without sounding like a geek or looking like Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit fame), the signs are encouraging.
Firstly, the revelations about the links between the National Council for Civil Liberties and the Paedophile Information Exchange. It's all very well for the likes of Particia Hewitt, who was the General Secretary of the organisation in the1970s, to claim that she had been "naïve and wrong to accept PIE's claim to be a ‘campaigning and counselling organisation that ‘does not promote unlawful acts’," but can we believe that a woman who allegedly called for incest to be legalised and the age of consent to be lowered to ten was really that naive?
Then we have the man at the top, Teflon Tony himself, granting an amnesty to 187 murderous IRA thugs in order to seal the Good Friday Agreement. This sordid behaviour has only come ot light following the collaprse of the trial of one othe men accused of the Hyde Park bombings of 1982.
I am no fan of socialsm, but the Labour Party of Keir Hardie, of Rmasay Macdonald, Clem Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell at least sought to improve the lot of the working classes. These men may have been misguided, but they were genuine and honourable. I dread to think what they would have thought of this behaviour by their successors. Indeed, they would hardly recognise today's politically-correct nanny-statist Labour Party as the party to which they once belonged.
While I have often mentioned on this blog my longing for Cameron's Tory Party to implode and something truly Conserevative to emerge from its ashes, the need for the Labour Party to collapse is even greater. It no longer serves the working man. It is only fit for perverts, murderous thugs, whingers and scroungers. No person with any self-respect should ever vote Labour. One can only hope that if - God Forbid - Ed Miliband does win next year's election that he will prove as equally catatrophic a leader as his French socialist counterpart François Hollande, whose popularity plumbed unprecedented depths for a French President barely a year after taking office. Fortunately, given that Hollande has managed to become so unpopular so quckly without sounding like a geek or looking like Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit fame), the signs are encouraging.