Pre-election political pantomime (From York Press)
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Pre-election political pantomime
9:59am Monday 15th March 2010 in
I have observed over recent weeks the emerging pre-election political pantomime which will undoubtedly accelerate as the day of destiny creeps ever closer.
For those with an interest in current affairs, the forthcoming election takes place against a unique backdrop of policy failures of various magnitude in education, pensions, crime, immigration, illegal wars, MPs’ expenses and, of course, the dire state of public finances. For those who are interested (and I believe many voters, as well as the Government, are in denial) the UK is currently having to borrow £500,000,000 per day; this is quite simply untenable, particularly considering that the benign global climate of low interest rates cannot be sustained indefinitely.
This discredited and clapped-out Government has presided over and helped create the most disastrous set of circumstances ever experienced in peacetime conditions. Our economy is in ruins, supported only by a mountain of unsustainable debt, large numbers of young people emerge from school semi-literate and numerate with a deliberately engineered lack of feeling of pride in our country or its rich heritage.
Similarly, our national identity and culture have been purposefully dismantled in the wake of uncontrolled immigration both from within the EU and outside.
In many of these, and other areas, the electorate has not at any stage been consulted, because of the breathtaking arrogance of those in power.
The Prime Minister recently described the Labour Party as the “party of aspiration”.
Perhaps, if he is booted out at the next election, he could audition as a comedian, except his words are in no way amusing and the consequences of his re-election too dire to consider.
Martin Smith, Main Street, Elvington, York
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George Appleby says...
1:19pm Mon 15 Mar 10
This downward spiral has been happening for much longer than the present period of Labour control. The Official Opposition is now Tory and the two of them have been in total joint command, as one way or the other, ever since the war ended in the 1940s with alternate booms and busts the result.
This disastrous monopoly of the party representing the actual wealthy and those who think they are, against the party supposedly representing the poor, has brought about the near bankruptcy of the United Kingdom.
No wonder the Northern Irish, Welch and Scots, vigorously supported by Blair, Brown and all the Ministers and MPS from these countries, can't get out quick enough, as they sit making laws in Westminster for us to follow.
We English are left pretending to be Britons with the Union Jack, while they proudly wave their national flags at every opportunity, with subsidies from us to help them on their way.
They will never give any part of this power away unless they are forced to. Brown is now, at last, offering a watered down version of PR; take it or leave it. Cameron doesn't want it at any price.
Our only chance of breaking this tight grip over our nations' spiraling future by these two failed minority interest groups is by going for the Single Transferable Votes system.
There has never been a better time to do it than in this election.