13 June - Predictions are easy after all
Well
they started off OK, but from there
the
Labour Party’s manifesto’s 133 pages were all downhill. I am quite prepared to
believe that Conservative ministers come to work each morning determined to take
us all for fools and raid our pockets and a change of attitude as well as direction
is desperately needed. Filling constituencies with hand-picked wets fills no one
with any confidence that the Conservatives want to change. I am quite looking
forward to seeing widespread humiliation of their candidates in three weeks time.
But the Labour Party has now gone official with the all too predictable tax, tax, tax
policy. £8·6 billion of it but by the magic beloved by Labour politicians there
will be no austerity and we are not going to feel it in our pockets: unless you
don’t drink, smoke, drive, fly, travel by bus, prefer to be warm than cold, insure your goods,
live in a house, sell a house, rent out a house, enjoy chasing smelly rags
through the countryside, keep cattle, aspire to have a knife taken to your genitals or die.
If you fancy any of that - maybe not the last one - you may safely vote for the red nutters instead of the
blue nutters and cut off your nose to spite your face. Apparently nearly 40% of
voters are sufficiently nuts to believe that their lot will be improved by a
possibly reformed - if we are lucky - Trot but the Resolution Foundation, an
economic think tank run by - until selection as - a Labour Parliamentary Candidate
and the Institute of Fiscal Studies disagree with them.
It looks like I am going to have to enjoy watching the red voting lemmings crash on to
the rocks below the cliff and become yet another generation that never votes Labour again.
For most of today I have felt inclined to hold my nose and grit my teeth and vote
Conservative, but mainly to be able to say I have a 100% Tory voting record -
but having written this I am going off the idea. Nostalgia has no place in politics.