Even Naughtie gets it. This morning on the Today programme, he gave Osborne a fair hearing on banking regulation and ridiculed Liam Byrne, Secretary of State for Wind, on Labour's new election strategy: Talk like the Tories.
The Secretary of State for Bowlocks and Contortionism wanted to lay out Labour's latest project which is to differentiate Labour policies from Tory policies by making them sound exactly like Tory policies.
It's not a matter of U-turns and abandoning everything the Great Incompetent has forced upon the Labour party and the poor bloody country - at the cost of almost incalculable damage to our society, our economy and the cohesion of our nation - for twelve long and terrible years. It's not that the country has noticed that constantly devising cunning new ways of weighing the pig has signally failed to fatten the animal. Of course not. It's just that Gordon's strategies have all worked so brilliantly that they can now be retired with dignity. We are going to hear a lot more of that phrase.
The idea is to fool us stupid voters into giving Labour another chance because they are uncannily like the increasingly credible Tories without actually being horrible Tories.
Labour's last desperate hope, on the time-honoured basis of if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, is that we will decide not to chuck out this bunch of lying, snooping, arrogant, half-educated, patronising, ignorant, inexperienced, incompetent, ruinous Labour socialist-theorist tossers because they are very like the Conservatives but just not as ghastly. Labour does 'hard choices' but the wicked Tories do 'cuts in essential services'. They desperately hope that we will not decide in favour of government by pragmatic, un-doctrinaire people with knowledge and experience of industrial and commercial management and of real-world responsibility who plan to reduce the powers of the state to interfere with our rights and privacy and who do not view us as pig-shit ignorant ants to be manipulated in the name of discredited sub-Marxist central planning crap which the more successful nations of the world long ago abandoned with relief. Labour tell themselves that we can be re-educated to believe that Brown is really as likeable as the polls suggest people find Cameron. And given his visceral hatred of Cameron, how that must stick in Brown's craw. Well, good. I hope Brown chokes on the knowledge that the British people reject him and his Neanderthal, Scottish-Socialist tribal hatred and the proposition that only Labour is entitled to, or fit for, office. Your lies are laughable, Byrne, and are even demolished daily by your own colleagues. You hadn't noticed? You have lost the plot and lost control - of all of it. Your ship is holed below the waterline and sinking even as your lunatic captain steers it on to the rocks. Fuck off and take Gordon with you.
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