The Labour Party has second thoughts

WELL, IT WAS LEFT UP TO none other than Hattie Harperson herself to announce what Nigel Farage told us the Labour Party would have to do sooner or later. I admire the thick skin of all politicians (or those with the ambition to rise from the backbenches); but the Labour Party's U-turn on an in/out referendum on Europe can only deepen the cynicism of an already distrustful electorate. Hattie sounded so pitiful in her explanation of her party's U-turn that I had to turn the volume off.

                

                The U-turn was not based on a deeply felt principle for the right of the British to have their say in the dismantling of their nation state; but purely on the electoral demographics, the reading of which by Labour after the general election result convinced the party to finally wake up to the fact that many of their traditional northern supporters had crossed over to Ukip, as Nigel Farage had been telling the country for the during the previous five years.

                

                 Today's Labour Party is like the criminal recidivist whose lawyer pleads on their behalf for a second (and a third and a… well, etcetera) chance to go straight. The Labour Party has little respect for democracy and their country's constitution. As a party, whose true belief is in a federal union (which of course is what political and monetary union means), to now fall into line with the Tories whose own Damascene conversion was also due to the success of Ukip, tells us one thing at least – Nigel Farage has caused an earthquake in British politics. He almost single handily broke up the two party system whose parties had taken it in turn to rule over us for the past 70 years.

                

                 Ed Miliband refused a European referendum, unless some new constitutional change was demanded from Europe of a Lisbon Treaty proportion. But as far as our membership of the EU was concerned, this would be fixed in perpetuity. This was the arrogance of a true Marxist, and the son of an LSE lecturer, and war time refugee who set about changing the economic and social system of his adopted country.

NEITHER LABOUR OR the Conservative Party can be trusted on a referendum. But Labour even more so than the Conservatives: the Labour Party, ever since Jacques Delors presided over the European Commission for three terms, between 1985-1994, the party has been in hock to his vision. Delors' influence on the British Labour Party was profound and turned the party whole heartedly toward the European Commission's mastership of the continent. Jacques Delors spoke the Labour Party's senile language of socialism and the naive and bellicose anti-Tory Kinnock became infatuated with him.

                

                 The Labour Party under Neil Kinnock steered the party (and hopefully the nation) toward his own allure for Delors, believing him the Lord advocate of social democracy for Europe (no doubt based upon the Swedish, or even Danish, model). He later himself became a commissioner after his failure to lure the British public (who became embarrassed by his mere presence) toward his ambition to become prime minister of Great Britain. Thankfully the same kind of sanity among the British electorate also conspired to rid us of the same sought after Ed Miliband premiership.

                

                 Kinnock's native talent for rhetoric secured him his position as Labour leader. In 1985 at the Labour Party conference he attacked the Liverpool Militants with a bravado performance which finally released the Militant Tendency's grip on the Labour Party.  But from then on his character failed him as far as the British public were concerned. He eventually retired to Europe to become a commissioner, fulfilling a life-time livelihood, like his wife, of living off the public tit. They are both now, thanks to the British and European tax payers, living more than comfortably on the pensions garnered from their various public offices.

HATTIE HARPERSON, now standing in for the defeated Ed Milliband until another leader has been chosen; seeks contrition over her party's denial of an in/out EU referendum at a time when penitence from a politician is regarded by a sceptical public as nothing more than part of a new political strategy. Politicians rely upon human emotion, and they believe the public have the same attention span of gold fish that gives them further opportunities. But now, through social media, this memory is no longer so short and the politicians have to perform various acts of remorse in order to remain solvent in pursuance of their careers.

               

                The Labour Party does not deserve to govern this country. Its history of governance since the end of the Second World War until 2010 has been one of total failure…what about the NHS I hear?  I reply but what else? The creation of NHS is Labour's one and only popular achievement and the Labour Party have been feeding off of its popularity to this day – it is, and has always been Labours trump card. At every election the failure of Labour to run an economy has successfully used their creation of the NHS to tempt the public to supporting them yet again for office, and further economic failure.

                The NHS has improved my life, but not before it nearly destroyed it. The NHS cannot continue to function as it does today; and only the Labour Party clings on to the belief that it can; and the general public also wants to believe. Emotion out-strips reason when it comes to the NHS.

THE LABOUR PARTY'S U-turn on the EU referendum is cynical in the extreme. The vast majority of Labour back benches are pro EU. The party's latest decision is a feeble attempt to attract back lost northern Labour voters from Ukip. The Labour Party under Tony Blair sought to replace the indigenous working class with a new electorate, and he turned toward Europe's open borders for such a replacement. Already the Labour Party believed they could count upon the support of the Asian communities that had grown since the 1960s.

                

                 Blair abandoned the indigenous white working class knowing that, through sentimentality, they would vote Labour through family tradition. He took them for granted in other words, and by the time they caught on and turned to Ukip, Blair thought he had created a new electorate which over time would replace the white working class as Labour's primary constituency through his support for open borders in Europe.

                

                 Blair abandoned the white working class because he could no longer see any future for them within the Labour Party. The old industries that the Labour Party could rely upon for their support had long since been sent to pasture – all that was left was the creation of a new constituency that would supplant the working class – immigrants.