Labour's rich

THE LABOUR PARTY HAS been the party of spend, while the Conservative party has played the role of the nation’s accountants who had to impose taxes in order to help clear the debts that were the result of Labour spending. Who was it in the Treasury who left a note on his departure from office in 2010 declaring there was no money left? Well, his name matters little, but the message he left demonstrates perfectly the relationship to government of the two main parties

            Tony Blair and Gordon Brown poured billions into their so-called reform agenda for the NHS when they took power. Blair insisted that the public money he was about to spend on the NHS was to be provided, only as part of a package of much needed reforms. The money was to be conditional; New Labour would no longer spend taxpayers money willy-nilly.

            That which was promised came to very little; and two thirds of the new money went into better pay and conditions for NHS staff, with very little return in the way of reform.

            The Labour Party, even under Tony Blair, saw the public sector as a kind of queen bee to which they worked endlessly to pour billions into feeding, in order that she could increase the population of the public sector hive.

            It is strange indeed that a party whose members and supporters have traditionally assailed the wealthy, should find themselves behaving in the same manner they tell us the wealthy behaves.

            The Labour Party likes wealth as much as the rich. They like spending it as much as the rich. They, like many of the rich, have access to so much money that they care-not if they spend it wrongly or just waste it: one thing is for sure; the Labour politician is as addicted to wealth as the most obese, top-hatted, champagne-swilling, and cigar smoking capitalist that they profess to despise.

            The difference is that  the cigar smoking capitalist spends and wastes his own money, which he is fully entitled to do. But the Labour Party spends and wastes other people’s money, which they are not entitled to do; but behave as if it is their duty to so do.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR has become Labour’s main source of support since their abandonment of the white working class; and it follows therefore, that the more that can be recruited into its fold, the greater will be the Labour voting constituency. Which is why under Labour the population of the public sector has increased during its period in office.

            The Labour Party have become the modern Lady Bountiful, that fictitious wife of the obese capitalist, overseeing the distribution of  charity to those she deemed deserving in Edwardian England.

            Labour accumulates wealth as greedily as does their perceived capitalist, but they do so through the largesse of  public taxation in its many forms of direct and indirect larceny. They look upon themselves as working for the public good, while aiding in the bankruptcy of the nation.

            The Labour Party despises the creation of wealth but are not slow in coming forward when it comes to harvesting taxes, not only from the wealthy, but also from the millions of those who work for them. They are hypocrites par excellence and will no doubt continue upon their merry way once they are re-elected. For there is nothing in Ed Milliband’s background or his elevation to the Labour leadership, that  leads me to believe that he will not follow the age old path of waste that is the Labour Party’s legacy.

            Government should be of a minimalist nature. It should only tax as a last resort, and even then should only do so in areas that help procure the nation’s safety. Taxation is a burden on all of the people whether rich or poor. Its compliance should be commensurate to its affordability. It should not be a cash a cow drawn upon to help the wastefulness of any government; especially a Labour one.

            Politicians spend other people’s money as freely as we all would given the chance to so do if we won the national or European lottery. I have picked on Labour because they believe wholeheartedly in public expenditure; and do so because it entails the spending of other people’s money with little regard for the affordability to the nation and the millions of families that make up the nation.

            Labour in office can only spend; and, as a result, demand ever more in taxation for the purpose of  promoting the public sector. Labour have always been the harbingers of greater taxation through class prejudice. They have always sought to belittle wealth creation in favour of socialist equality.