We fell about laughing at the post by Clare Curran - She witters on about Labour and how she got it wrong recently about demanding votes. She ends with this flourish...
"I want our country to be strong and proud. And I'll fight for the policies and for a government that will benefit all of us"
You see Clare - this is a strong country and its people are proud - and the policies and government benefit us all.
We are weathering some of the biggest storms we have faced as a nation since the last war.
Your party offers nothing - the people know that and that is why Labour is facing the distinct possibility of coming close to being overtaken by the Greens who at least stand for something.
Labour is not a party of the centre left, its not the party for unionists, Its not a party for the environment, its not a party for economic growth - its just a collection of political has beens who supported policies that took our country to the brink of ruin.
So Clare - do your constituents a favour - either vote for National and the policies that will give our country a better future - or bugger off to Cuba.
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I'd love a breakdown on how this government "benefits us all." Go on, stretch your imagination. Break it down through the pay brackets in 10,000. I'll make it easy on you, you only have to start at a million plus, so you can even include some honest folk to make a cluster of the tiny clique that informs National policy.
When at least 80% of the wealth is owned by less than 20%, and that gap just keeps widening, by claiming you have a fair and just economic system you are just propping up the selfish ideology that you and you blue-rinse pals are just superior and everyone else ain't trying. When in fact the only legitimacy of your ideology is that it is propped up by foreign elites who treasure the same ideal. The only legitimacy is of power: who can does.
I invite you to consider that National policy benefits only 10% of the population, but is projected through PR lies to represent everyone; whereas most other parties (except equally loony Act) are honest in that their policies will impact on some more than others. Ah, but the polls? Admittedly, the fact the media treats an election like an American idol popularity contest is compounded by generally poor education; kids get better these days, thankfully. Like values, critical thinking. Plus great fearmongering couched as aspiration, good PR, good on you. A good government enables freedom of choice: a society where you still have the choice to scramble to be a banker or a high priest of economics or doublespeak; but where a simple honest (more vital) job can sustain a simple life and not fear the leaping cost of living; where the average wage can sustain the once uncomplicated choice of a couple with a couple of kids looking to pay off a house. That's what's been lost so a few can sit on their capital making billions.
Far away from the real cociety, real economy, the sense of entitlement created by the banking and currency systems is despotic. Thousands of little Gaddafis, in their compounds, spouting idiot dogma. But these are Western, goodguy Gaddafis? In this Recession, the point has been made by thousands of experts struggling SMEs that the rich don't trickle-down their golden lucre; they don't create jobs based on their bank account. Jobs require demand. And what creates demand?
This ain't a good government, just an inheritor of a zombie ideology; and as we were an early adopter, it seems we're doomed to be the last to let go of its rotting phallus.
Yes, I doubt this will penetrate your rank pool of groupthink self-interest. You have too much incentive otherwise. When you own enough forest, you don't give a damn about individual trees.
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