Envy in context

THE POLITICS OF ENVY should be regarded as a sickness in certain cases, and be treated accordingly. It has no class based restriction, as it is familiar among narrow sections of the working and middle classes. Its spread however does seem to find a warm and welcoming home among socialists, with an added poisonous intent toward their class enemies. Political scientists and sociologists cannot be trusted to talk dispassionately on such an association because they themselves are the victims of the same infection. So what about medical science?

            

            Well, even hear many of those working within the NHS seem to share the same impulses – although its preponderance seems to decline the further up the salary scale you travel. Perhaps it is just part of human nature; and therefore let many socialists who share these emotions, off the hook.

            

             Are not, after all, the wealthy also envious of those richer than themselves? This can certainly be the case; for wealth creation is prompted partly through envy as well as ability and enterprise  –  but the difference with this and political class envy, is that the wealthy use such envy as an element of competition…we all have it, but it is only the socialists that poisons the well of what is, a competitive free market environment; by turning wealth creation into an evil – thus we have wealth taxes of all sorts deemed by the socialists to merit what they regard as fairness in any presupposed but narrow ideological meaning of the term.

THE LATEST socialist aversion to wealth comes in the form of Ed Miliband's intention to tax properties valued at over £2 million. Known as the 'mansion tax' its purpose is to provide an additional £2 billion to the annual NHS budget of £113billion. This would amount to, if it is fully harvested by the treasury; to a mere one week's expenditure on the NHS.

            

             But the mansion tax's sole purpose is to appeal to the envious impulses of Labour supporters. It is a vacuous, meaningless, and, if all is retrieved that is supposed to be by government; then its impact on an NHS facing a multi-billion pound black hole in its financing, would be nominal.

            

             On top of which, the practicalities of such a tax would prove disastrous in their application. A mansion according to Labour's politics of envy supposes that the residents of such properties are millionaires themselves. London will be the most fruitful harvest of such a tax; but as we know, the rise in London's house prices bare little comparison to the rest of the country. There are plenty of elderly people living in properties in London that fit Red Ed's qualification for the mansion tax who are not themselves wealthy but mere victims of the state of the London property market. Ed himself would have to pay the tax on his own property to the tune of £7,000 per year.

THE MANSION tax is the creation of socialist envy – an envy tagged to an ideology known as socialism. An ideologically driven source of class hatred once pursued by Ed Miliband's father and now continued by his intellectually lesser son, who cheated his more talented brother from becoming the Labour Party leader due to the union block vote…in other words, Ed was elected by Marxist imbeciles, like himself.

            

            The Labour Party, as well as the country now deserves all they get from Ed's 'leadership' of a party, that, if the polls are to be believed, will be elected (God help us) next May, to the government of this now pitiful, but once great nation.

IF THIS COMES about then political envy will be its credo. Red Ed will obliterate the Blair New Labour  reformation. He will instinctively steer and favour a leftward course; favouring his father's basest socialist instincts, and will no doubt add a greater burden to our deficit by the socialist triptych of Taxing, Spending, and Borrowing …socialisms version of the Catholic trilogy of Father, Son, and Holy ghost.

            

            Envy in context, is this piece's title, meant to show that envy is a human emotion but becomes dangerous if deployed as the basis of a political ideology, which it has been by socialism; pandering as it does to the class hatred of its fevered disciples. Socialism is and has always been the precursor of totalitarianism – that over-wielding might of the state transgressing upon the liberty of the individual.