Pending its expulsion from the Labour Party, Progress is to hold a conference on how Ed Miliband's Labour is winning council seats in the South that Tony Blair's New Labour never even contested. Discomfort, indeed. Or have I missed something?
In point of fact, only Labour now represents the
Union as a first principle, any concept of English identity, a
universal postal service bound up with the monarchy, the Queen's
Highways rather than toll roads owned by faraway petrostates, Her
Majesty's Constabulary rather than the British KGB that is the impending
"National Crime Agency", the National Health Service rather than
piecemeal privatised provision by the American healthcare companies that
pay Andrew Lansley, keeping Sunday special, a free vote on the
redefinition of marriage, a referendum on continued membership of the
EU, the historic regimental system, aircraft carriers with aircraft on
them, the State action necessary in order to maintain the work of
charities and of churches, and the State action necessary in order to
maintain a large and thriving middle class.
The only way to save Tory Britain is to vote Labour. Though only because Labour really is now Labour again.
And, clearly, Tory Britain knows it.
Like Progress, the Coalition is in favour of Post Office privatisation (as the Conservative Party has been for 20 years), of road privatisation, of the NCA, of the war on the police, of the NHS breakup, of the deregulation of Sunday trading, of a whipped vote in favour of the redefinition of marriage, of the refusal of an In/Out referendum on the EU, of the defence cuts despite also being in favour of any and every war ordered up by the American neoconservative think tanks and by the Israeli Far Right, of the taxing of charities and churches out of existence, and of the withdrawal of middle-class benefits.
Labour is opposed to each and every one of those things. It mightn't have been under Brown. It wouldn't have been under Blair. Still less under the man who first devised this whole programme while running Blair's Policy Unit, David Miliband. But it is now. Needless to say, though, the supposedly Tory newspapers continue to advocate and practice uncritical support for the always-Liberal Conservative Party, towards which they ought therefore to be counted as election expenditure. Free press? What free press?
The only way to save Tory Britain is to vote Labour. Though only because Labour really is now Labour again.
And, clearly, Tory Britain knows it.
Like Progress, the Coalition is in favour of Post Office privatisation (as the Conservative Party has been for 20 years), of road privatisation, of the NCA, of the war on the police, of the NHS breakup, of the deregulation of Sunday trading, of a whipped vote in favour of the redefinition of marriage, of the refusal of an In/Out referendum on the EU, of the defence cuts despite also being in favour of any and every war ordered up by the American neoconservative think tanks and by the Israeli Far Right, of the taxing of charities and churches out of existence, and of the withdrawal of middle-class benefits.
Labour is opposed to each and every one of those things. It mightn't have been under Brown. It wouldn't have been under Blair. Still less under the man who first devised this whole programme while running Blair's Policy Unit, David Miliband. But it is now. Needless to say, though, the supposedly Tory newspapers continue to advocate and practice uncritical support for the always-Liberal Conservative Party, towards which they ought therefore to be counted as election expenditure. Free press? What free press?
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