So far on our trip along the path to the General Election, we have some disastrous proposals from both Labour and Conservative.
Speaking as a Scot, I am glad that I do not have to consider any of them.
Your choice in England is as follows:
Labour:
- Tenner an hour official minimum wage
- A spurious fake tenner for carers which would immediately be lopped off income support
- Common Purpose ‘Let us pretend that we do not have an underground third world economy run by people of other colours exploiting each other by using a noisy liberal racist agenda under the banner of diversity.’
- Let us also cling to Brexit as a vote winner because the North of England is tired of having massive populations of immigrants using up all the social housing and yet having no work.
- Let us continue to pump money into London despite saying that we are doing something for everywhere else
- Let us set up a committee to discuss the above for at least ten years without actually implementing anything
- Please let us not notice that the ship is sinking and we will never be out of debt
- Let us enjoy more PFI and employ Irish builders to rebuild the last lot of crumbling buildings we still haven’t paid for.
Conservative:
- We must continue to kill the disabled and welfare claimants rather than create jobs anywhere apart from London
- We must expand the commonwealth and exploit it as we no longer have the will or capacity to create jobs in the UK
- More tax breaks for American companies!
- More tax breaks for foreign billionaires!
- More tax breaks for us!
- The NHS must be destroyed!
- No more pensions and useless eaters!
- Tax rises for the squeezed middle!
- We will pay for a hard Brexit by punishing you for voting for it!
- Negotiation is hard, please vote Labour
So basically it is not looking good for England. People seems to be very stupid, and the dangerous assumption that politicians have some sort of divine right to distribute misery rather than shock, horror actually administrate the country properly seems to prevail very widely indeed.
Just to remind you, no politician is more talented than you are, you are perfectly capable of taking action yourself and those very impressive soundbites they are so fond of are actually written by graduate interns who barely know what they are doing, never mind anyone else.
In other words, nobody is capable of running the country and you should drop the assumption that either political theory is better. One leads to your premature death, the other leads to bankruptcy.
Perhaps the answer is to vote for whatever is less painful in the short term, perhaps you enjoy reading about the suffering of others. You have certainly been conditioned not to feel it if you have followed the media over the last few decades.
I miss the days of my childhood, when people still had meetings that you were allowed to disrupt and protest and actually cared about the cause they pretended to support. It is all so fake now, and people seem to be drugged into stupidity.
Personally, I suspect that looking at Liam Fox, Philip Hammond and David Davies, Theresa has decided that she would like to just take the pension and run. As manifestos go so far, it does not look as if the Tories actually want to be in power at all.
Whatever you do then, prepare for a thin Christmas, because as far as I can see, disaster now looms, regardless of Brexit.