10 January 2010

Me? I'm ordinary, me. One of 'the many'.

As usual, Janet Daley is half right.

Her overall point (that the Conservatives should attack Labour head-on) is well made but in making it she is banging a drum she should puncture, for she can be read as accepting Labour's categorising of people into either 'privileged' or 'disadvantaged' as though there is no other category. That is exactly what Labour needs you to believe and it is a lie.

Of course there are privileged people and there are disadvantaged people. The many, though, are neither. They are simply ordinary. They go about their lives privately: decent and realistic and making their own happiness, pulling each other through painful experiences, until the commissars of the Labour Party come along and tell them they must be angry. The must fight.

Why must everybody fight? Why do they say this? It's psycho- and socio-pathological.

In a free society, privilege must be available. It is a sine qua non of liberty. Ordinary people - the many - know this. They do not consider themselves 'disadvantaged' because someone else is better off than they are.

Labour hate-mongers try to make ordinary people - the many - angry by comparing them with a few whose 'privileges' anger only themselves, the Brown-Balls-Harman and Gramsci-ist class warriors. One can understand their sensitivity to the possibility of public distaste, though, since many of them are highly privileged themselves and hag-ridden by guilt about it. To ease their troubled souls, they 'make a holy show of themselves' as my grandmother would have said, mumbling through the half-forgotten words of their hymn to a discarded political-economic theory which has been turned to ashes by history, even as they assure each other that their dream of total equality will come about through 'historical inevitability'. No wonder they are angry. The world has left them behind and History itself is laughing at them and their song.

Political rancour is not an everyday emotion outside the Labour Party - other than about the Labour Party. Ordinary people - the many - do not wish to waste their lives on it. They have work to do, families and friends to love, hobbies to pursue, soaps to watch, dogs to feed, sock-drawers to sort out. They wish to be left alone, free to aspire if they wish to a WAG-ish or pop-star or banker lifestyle.

Ordinary people are realists, well aware that Kate Moss and Lily Allen, David Beckham and Simon Cowell have to work like stink for their big money. They find the glitterati amusing and entertaining if they think about them at all, then they shrug and get on with their lives which are, in the main, reasonably satisfying in ways Labour’s class warriors do not understand. As for the landed aristocracy who are anyway a minuscule proportion of the population, and most of them rather more socially responsible than your average Labour politician, ordinary people - the many - either find them monumentally ignorable or they rather like them. Your normal toff is welcome down the pub any time although I doubt one can say the same of the very weird Ballses and Harmen.

It is no wonder Labour people do not understand ordinary people - the many - for they are not ordinary. Labour people need to be - and boringly drone non-stop about - ‘fighting’. This is embedded Marxist thinking which ordinary people - the many - find both alien and bonkers and for good reason. Ordinary people - the many - are emotionally adult and so do not need to spend their entire lives behaving like hormone-charged adolescent boys wrestling behind the bike shed to sublimate their newly discovered sex drive.

Framing your politics solely in terms of 'fighting', then constantly actually fighting and dreaming up ways to fight some more - which, revealingly, Brown says he does daily - very obviously drives one mad and renders one unfit for high office. Ordinary voters - the very many - will shortly make this point to the Labour Party, and to Mr Brown in particular.

Ordinary people - the many - are only disadvantaged by the Labour government which expropriates their money to a wholly unreasonable extent and burns it, instead of putting it to work. Ordinary people - the many - are happy to support the helpless but resent having to hand over their earnings to people made helpless by Labour in furtherance of its dogma. They especially resent handing over their money to a government run by an incompetent, malevolent Labour madman and his personal bodyguard.

Ordinary people - the many - are only 'disadvantaged' by a Labour government which supervises their every thought and action for its own political purposes, convinced because they have read Marx that they are both able and duty-bound to re-educate ordinary people - the many. Labour people refer to ordinary people as ‘the masses’, and send their officials into their homes - and minds - to force them to comply with Labour's minutest, tentacular, whole-life-encompassing regulations.

In drafting its insane, asphyxiating regulatory regime, Labour has demolished English Common Law, perhaps this country's greatest gift to civilised life. Under some of Labour's more creative new laws, an accused person is assumed to be guilty unless he can prove his innocence (not necessarily before a jury of his peers) and his property may be confiscated by the state as soon as he is accused. Soon, everything which is not forbidden will be compulsory.

This, and other damage to our eccentric, pragmatic and successful constitutional settlement is Labour's legacy and it is this, above all its other crimes, which makes Labour the enemy of ordinary people who wish to live quiet, private, peaceful lives. Justice is no longer available to all citizens. Our peaceful society is riven by dangerous divisions which Labour has deliberately created for its own dogmatic and party purposes, or through its cosmic incompetence and ignorance.

If you remove the Labour Party from the lives of ordinary people you remove at a stroke the driver of most of the systemic disadvantages which only a Labour government could impose, by which it drives as many of them as possible down to the gutter where they become semi-feral, aggressive-defensive and utterly dependent on the Labour aristocracy for their survival. If they vote at all, they can only vote to prolong the Labour aristocracy's life of privilege, for Labour has told than that the only alternative is starvation. Real starvation. This is wickedness of the highest order, only a few short steps from eugenics and mass extermination.

Refuse to accept the Labour Party's definitions of you. With one bound you are free. Your next step is to vote. Vote whichever way you need to, to destroy the patronising, interfering, oppressive Labour government of slave-owning hate-mongers.

2 comments:

  1. Right on the money!! these people really need locking up for their own good and the nations sanity.

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  2. Political rancour is not an everyday emotion outside the Labour Party - other than about the Labour Party. Ordinary people - the many - do not wish to waste their lives on it. They have work to do, families and friends to love, hobbies to pursue, soaps to watch, dogs to feed, sock-drawers to sort out. They wish to be left alone, free to aspire if they wish to a WAG-ish or pop-star or banker lifestyle.

    It's quite simple - there's a malcontented force permeating it all which wishes for rancour to be the norm.

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