Saturday, April 25, 2009
Frailty of democratic politics
We are all starting to see it: After Blair and his self-serving spin, and Brown with his cash for those in office, we now have Darling with his self-serving budget and worse - Tory and Liberal attempts to destroy the economy with their own ghastly misrepresentations.
With both Darling and Cameron, we see a similar thing. Both men are appealing to their supporters gut hatred of “the other” - welfare claimants in one case, the rich in the other. But such attacks are mere grunts. Or at least, they are in the way Darling’s practicing it. A genuinely socialist policy would not so much tax the rich as aim at reducing demand for very highly paid people, for example by getting rid of exploiters and chancers who masquerade as managers. Who knows, such a policy might also be economically rational too?
It has even got to the point where the Gurkhas are being used as a means to criticise Phil Woolas. Obviously the gurkhas have no real right to stay in the UK , though they may well be fine chaps FAIK. Certainly army officers have told me that the UK Army are really an intolerable bunch and it would not surprise me if the Gurkhas had been misled. The incredible thing is that usual Tory policy, and possibly Liberal policy, would be to keep them out of the UK in such circumstances and I certainly can not see the senile Tory Party dogs as learning any new tricks if in office.
The fact that the scales are falling from our eyes about the totally vile, corrupt and self-centred crap that UK politicians are should not make any one reconsider their vote simply on that basis. I would vote Trinamool Congress but you can't do that in the UK.
With both Darling and Cameron, we see a similar thing. Both men are appealing to their supporters gut hatred of “the other” - welfare claimants in one case, the rich in the other. But such attacks are mere grunts. Or at least, they are in the way Darling’s practicing it. A genuinely socialist policy would not so much tax the rich as aim at reducing demand for very highly paid people, for example by getting rid of exploiters and chancers who masquerade as managers. Who knows, such a policy might also be economically rational too?
It has even got to the point where the Gurkhas are being used as a means to criticise Phil Woolas. Obviously the gurkhas have no real right to stay in the UK , though they may well be fine chaps FAIK. Certainly army officers have told me that the UK Army are really an intolerable bunch and it would not surprise me if the Gurkhas had been misled. The incredible thing is that usual Tory policy, and possibly Liberal policy, would be to keep them out of the UK in such circumstances and I certainly can not see the senile Tory Party dogs as learning any new tricks if in office.
The fact that the scales are falling from our eyes about the totally vile, corrupt and self-centred crap that UK politicians are should not make any one reconsider their vote simply on that basis. I would vote Trinamool Congress but you can't do that in the UK.
# posted by uv : 6:46 AM
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