NOVANEWS
modernityblog | 08/11/2010 at 04:11 | Tags: Authoritarianism, David Cameron, Douglas Alexander, Ed Miliband, Iain Duncan-Smith, New Labour, Tories, Unemployed, Useless, Welfare changes, Workfare | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4XPG-2sP |
Despite impressions to the contrary New Labour is still very much alive and kicking in Ed Miliband’s Labour Party.
This is evidenced by their inability to tackle the Tories head-on over their workfare scheme.
Any other party would have highlighted the inadequacies of Iain Duncan-Smith’s proposals and been able to show the callous pennypinching authoritarian nature of the Tories, but not Ed Miliband’s frontbench mediocrities.
Instead Gang Miliband concede the Tories’ arguments from the outset, Douglas Alexander admitted as much on Sky News arguing Labour had similar policies (the difference being apparently “real” jobs) that were “backup by real sanctions”.
So Alexander and the Labour Party don’t mind penalising the poor, as the Tories are doing, they’re just arguing over a few details, he says as much in a Guardian interview.
Britain faces one of the most ideologically twisted governments since Thatcher’s time, and in many ways they are pushing through measures that only Margaret Thatcher could salivate over, yet their political opponents, in the form of the Labour Party, can’t muster cogent arguments or real opposition to them.
In fact, the political cretins running the Labour Party have been outflanked on the Left by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Who would have thought it, and I say this through gritted teeth, Rowan Willams makes some penetrating points:
“People who are struggling to find work and struggling to find a secure future are – I think – driven further into a downward spiral of uncertainty, even despair, when the pressure is on in that way.
“People often are in this starting place, not because they’re wicked, stupid or lazy, but because their circumstances are against them, they’ve failed to break through into something and to drive that spiral deeper – as I say – does feel a great problem.”
One final thought, I remember Thatcherism first time around.
I wasn’t in Britain all of the time, but when I was I noticed a change, a perceptible shift, there were many more people living on the streets, sleeping rough, more beggars, more destitution, an increased climate of fear and the introduction of security guards where you never saw them before.
I suspect that Britain under Cameron’s Tories will make Thatcher’s time seem like halcyon days.
That’s how bad it will get, and Ed Miliband’s pathetic Labour Party need to accept their part in allowing it to happen.
