Old Labour Is Back Again

So Ed Miliband will not break with the Unions since, as he told Andrew Marr on the BBC on Sunday, by keeping its link with the Unions Labour remains connected to the ordinary working man and by implication to all those wage slaves out there in the world. If Miliband believes that twisted logic he will believe in anything. He maintained with a straight face that keeping faith with the Unions had nothing to do with the Unions being the Labour party bankers nor that it was because he only became leader of the Labour party thanks to the Trade Unions block votes. The two Eds want to take us back to the days of Attlee when Labour constructed the base for a socialist society by extending rationing, imposing the disastrous NHS, nationalising all sorts of industries and condemning us to years and years of decline that shamefully, until Mrs Thatcher, the Tories went along with as a result of fear of the Unions and a disbelief that the tide could ever be turned and that we could become a free market economy again. Thatcher's job has not been completed. We still have a third rate health system in which the wishes of those employed in the sector take precedence over those of the consumer. The two Eds also continue to blame the excesses of the banks for the global financial crisis that started in 2007 and from which we are still struggling to extract ourselves. They naturally refuse to acknowledge Labour's own dire part in that disaster and like all those of the left live in a world of self delusion that they and they alone can save the world. However as wonderful as they paint their vision of the world, and socialists are good at that kind of false caring propaganda, reality breaks in every now and again when over taxing and over  spending has to be reined in. Labour then leaves it to the Tories to clear up the mess. It amazes me the numbers of voters who get taken in again and again by the socialists but it is after all human nature to want the easy soft life paid for by others. No socialist, despite the evidence, accepts either the Laffer curve or a free market economy. Their attitude is lets soak the rich; the rich can pay for the necessities and also the fripperies of the poor; the rich can afford it. What an unbelievably irresponsible attitude. Aren't we all equal in the eyes of our maker and if that means anything isn't the rich man owed as much respect as a poor man and if that's so doesn't the rich man deserve to be treated as fairly as the poor one and isn't it in all our interests that those that have the knack of doing well be encouraged to do so rather than spat upon? Miliband's attempt this afternoon to take the One Nation mantle from the Tories and to claim that on Labour's return to power they will restore the NHS to how it was before the Tories pushed through the Blair reforms can only make one smile.