2 January - The Commies are optimistic for the longer term
When the
end of year blog linked to my list of
wrong-headed, stupid or malicious decisions of the worst Government of my
lifetime I half expected some kick back from demented Socialists and it only took
an hour for the first of them to arrive.
@tonyofsidcup said I was “too harsh on Labour”. How could a list of actions
collected only from Main Stream Newspaper headlines be too harsh? They were
facts presented in abbreviated form; maybe in an unsympathetic manner but facts
neverthless. Nothing came from X gossip or anything of that kind. Everything has
been in the Telegraph, Times Guardian or Mail.
I told @tony that a defence of Starmer and Co might be interesting. Were former
Bexley Councillors Daniel Francis and Oppong-Asare right to risk condemning old
people to death? Would a man brought up in a Communist State be able to provide a rational explanation?
I am going to reproduce his reply in full, maybe with a few footnotes.
Oh, what is this doom-and-gloom talk, Mr K? Let the man pronounced by Bexley
Labour to “be perceived as against us” lift your spirits and appreciation of our new government.
One thing to cheer is being retired when a recession is about to
hit. As much as Daniel Francis MP, for example, may “sell” Labour’s first
budget, this is a budget that raises taxes and reduces spending, and the
economic impact of this combination is quite clear: some of the retail workers
Daniel is taking selfies with will soon be out of a job.
Welcome to Labour’s Austerity, the payback for Tory sins! As a contractor, with
private-school
bills to boot, I look to 2025 with unease. Do I wish Tories stayed in power?
Absolutely not! Memories of Tory incompetence and corruption are just too fresh,
and evidence of the country’s decline under Tory governments - after a good run
under Blair and Brown - is impossible to ignore, with A&E horror stories off
Twitter only the latest.
How many people would like to swap Starmer for the hapless Rishi - never mind his peculiar replacement – and go back to the time
when every week brought a new government scandal? Not me.
Thankfully, the
question is theoretical: Starmer has enough time to ride out the economic cycle
and come to the next General Election in a good shape. Back in the 1990s, Belarusian
then-fresh-faced President Lukashenka famously reassured voters about his
economic-reform plans by saying “You will live poorly, but not for long”. At the
time, this was taken as a promise of a miserable and short life – delivered 100%
- but with Starmer and Labour, I insist on the positive interpretation.
It is a relief to see that @tony makes no attempt to undermine
my doom list. The Conservatives nationally were absolutely hopeless. Definitely
incompetent and probably corrupt. You never read a good word about Rishi Sunak
here and for the first time in my life I did not vote Conservative six months
ago. However unlike @tony; if there was a choice of only Rishi or Two Tier I
would vote for the one who did not grow up a Trotskyite who hates the UK.
Obviously I would prefer a wider choice but even if there is a better one within
Conservative ranks the party is finished unless it can expel all its wets. And it won’t.
@tony’s “good run under Blair and Brown” ended in a financial crash and a note
which said “There is no money”.
Starmer will never recover from his present position, nor should he. He is unpopular now and
that will continue. Have you seen the tax rises planned for April? In
approximate terms Vehicle Excise Duty is due to near double and in some cases go from nothing to almost £200 a year.
With the history of five Labour Prime Ministers and even more Labour Governments
behind me I can confidently forecast that Labour will fail spectacularly and
sanity will return to Bexleyheath and Crayford. No one likes a Granny killer. Not even @tony.