To feel that I need to provide an excuse like a naughty school boy caught with his hand in the sweetie jar* is enough of a worry in these recent times but here goes….(*American friends, replace “sweeties” for “cookies” and also consider much of what I write here about the Corbyn’s British Labour Party also stands the same as your Democratic Party or indeed most if not all Socialist Parties to varying degrees)
Firstly the 2019 December elections is a two horse race, let’s not pretend otherwise, it’s between The Conservative Party and the Labour Party (a variation of this up here is Scotland with the SN(fuckin’)Ps added to the mix but more about this later) …Liberal Democrats, The Brexit Party, Plaid Cymru (in Whales), The Greens (in Scotland also known as the environmental wing for the SNP) and a few other parties depending on your geographic area (and definition of what you would consider a “Political Party”)…these other Parties are basically just padding out the ballot paper when it comes to who will be stepping into power this election into Westminster and becoming our new Prime Minister.
In the UK, especially up here is Scotland there is and has always been a hatred of The Conservative Party (The Tory Party) and Labour has been considered the working man’s party.
To explain this hatred I will try and use the Scottish perspective, I remember this very much as a kid growing up in Falkirk and up to this day I still see this, when the Conservatives were is power with Margret Thatcher, who was then known as “The Iron Lady” as Prime Minister, she was demonised then and still to this day (when she died in 2013 people is Scotland were actually celebrating, street parties in Glasgow’s George Square, kinda ironic they claim she was an uncaring insensitive PM but there these same claimants blowing whistles and partying celebrating the death of a 87 years old woman who died of a stroke!!...not exactly the moral acts of a crowd who consider themselves fit to pass judgment of the morals of others. (they actually were wanting "the wicked witch is dead" song from the wizard of oz to reach number one in the pop charts)
There does seem to be 3 great hatreds in Scotland. The first is hatred of English people. The second is sectarian hatred. The third is hatred of Tories. (All three of these hatreds diminish all of us and the perpetrators of these “hates” should be ashamed of themselves)
Anyway….. Here in Scotland the majority of Scotland's economy was based on heavy industries such as shipbuilding and mining until the 1980s, these industries provided the life blood of many areas and were an integral part of the Scottish identity.
The Conservatives under (then Tory PM) Margaret Thatcher oversaw the alleged destruction of this setup creating massive unemployment, resentment due to Scotland not benefiting from the new service based economy based on London and creating somewhat a crisis of national identity.
Due to all this many Scots would never consider voting for the party they considered destroyed their communities with this hatred being passed down to the younger generations as well and of course lots of people believe the North Sea Oil drilled in Scotland was used to make people in London richer while Scotland received very little benefit. I certainly don’t agree with this “Nationalist Fairy-tale” but don’t intend to discuss this here as it would only be a detour from topic but if you want to go your own research may I suggest firstly checking the GERS reports and learning more about the Barrett Formula.
So the mythology of Thatcher lives on and people continue to hate her.
It seems perfectly acceptable to hate Tories, especially up here in Scotland It’s so acceptable indeed that this hatred goes right to the top of Scottish politics.
Just Listen to the way Nicola Sturgeon (Leader of the SNP) says the word “Tory”. It’s as if she couldn’t think of a worse insult to call someone. There is loathing in the way she says the word, there is contempt, it’s almost as if she spits out the word. This is all quite deliberate because she knows that her support depends on hatred of Tories.
The SNP is now the anti-Tory party as she claims. She encourages this prejudice against Tories for party political ends. She fans the flames of hatred and keeps it going for she knows that then no-one will much think about her party’s actual record in government. Instead it’s about something else completely irrelevant citing a Tory past in Scotland which was not the best.
Nicola Sturgeon’s argument against Labour is that they campaigned together with the Tories during the Scottish independence referendum. Her argument against the Lib Dems is that they were in a coalition with the Conservatives. Her argument against the Tories is that they exist.
Now I certainly don’t agree with every policy of the present Conservative party, but I agree with the following principle: Virtue depends on freedom of choice.
The Left would make us ‘virtuous’ by means of law, while the Right would allow us the freedom to follow our own conscience.
The Left therefore fundamentally is about destroying morality by making it obsolete and turning it into a matter of coercion.
The Left’s goal of equality can only be achieved by forcing some people to give up what they have and giving it to others. The Right on the other believes in the individual and makes morality a matter of my choice.
I can after all give all I have to the poor without anyone compelling me to do so. That’s the difference.
It’s that choice and that alone that makes an action virtuous.
As I wrote before on a Facebook post, Corbyn use that famous rallying cry of the socialist... “equality” ... which ignores the fact that humans are unique so inequality is inevitable. The socialist quest to “equality” is a wild goose chase, a revolt against reality, a recipe for destruction as history has already taught up with the examples of Russia and China. The essence of a socialist government’s enterprise is to turn us into identical bricks and it will use its coercive power to do this. This desire explains why socialist regimes are often totalitarian
I disagree with socialism and nationalism. I’ve seen what these two ideologies can do, the poverty in a socialist Cuba …you don’t even need to look as far, just here at home (UK) in the 70’s was a bleak time under Labour, also the damage and division cause by the Scottish Independence campaign. (check out my other post on what type of socialism I believe Corbyn will bring here....its the more autocratic type of Latin American then others)
John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor in the Labour Party Socialist ideas are more on display than the little that Corbyn himself allows to be made public. McDonnell has said in the past that he would "confiscate shareholdings without compensation"....Now I work for BT and an a shareholder ....so if Labour Party won and Nationalised Broadband like as it said it would in its Manifesto I already know in this one area how it would effect me and others who work within the telecoms industry. He has also listed his interests as "fermenting the overthrow of Capitalism"!! He actually still carries his Little Red Book around with him!!!!
(anyway....Free Broadband?....why should the middle class get free broadband in a country with a million pensioners in fuel poverty? Such Ideologies override common sense ....but that's Labour for you and Socialism as a whole!!! I have not even mentioned about how these will try to get zero carbon emissions before the current governments target of 2050 which is a date the Committee on Climate Change believe is the very earliest possible date it can maybe be achieved without serious damage to the economy!!
If not before then are you starting to see the foolishness of Labour and the destruction it would undeniably achieve if it wins the election in December by beating the Conservatives?
When I write something I believe it to be true, but I know that my ideas will only evolve if they are countered but in social media I have been unfriended because of my posts or comments on other because they are cowards and it really boils down to the fact that they don’t have the evidence to disprove me or fear losing face in the attempt.
That is the greatest danger of our political times here is the UK is that too many people are consumed with hatred for Tories that they are unwilling even to consider the possibility that Conservatives might actually have some good ideas sometimes. It’s this close-mindedness that is so harmful. It is the fertile ground in which prejudice can grow.
Conservatives traditionally are more supportive of a Capitalist based economy and history has always shown that this sort of economy does more to elevate people out of extreme poverty than any Socialist based economy.
Many young votes were born after the fall of the Berlin Wall and find Socialism attractive.
Many will try and justified it with the myth of successful Scandinavian Socialism ….but it is a myth (socialism nearly wreaked Sweden and its only free market reforms that are bringing it back from the brink but watch how its socialist immigration policies are causing so much damage and danger to its population…and I could go on more about Danish Socialism …more than a quarter of the working age population out of work and on the dole)
Now there is also this bit of scaremongering Labour are spending about the Torys intending to sell off the NHS!... they have always said “the Tories always want to privatise the NHS”!! but think about this a bit...why it hasn’t happened yet despite the Tories running the government for 44 of the 71 years since birth of NHS. Parts of the NHS have been opened up to a certain level of Privatisation over the terms of both Labour and Tory but its not to the extent of selling it off and sometimes little islands of Privatisation is not always a bad thing when it offers faster treatments and holds people accountable. But again I would need to detour off this post's main topic to fully explain this so I will stay on course and just point out that I believe this whole "sell off the NHS" is a scare tactic used by Labour and it's left wingers and should not be believed.
My views are sincerely held. They have developed over a number of years through discussion, thought, reading and traveling. I read Hitchens (both Christopher and Peter), Roger Scruton, David Horowitz and Douglas Murray which have furthered my convictions (also Daniel Hannan about BREXIT and its Eurocrats).
But don't get me wrong, this is never black and white, politics come is shades, I am a huge fan of A.C Grayling.
By all means disagree with my views, but let’s debate amicably and accept that we are all sincere. The political identity of far too many people in the UK is founded on an unwarranted hatred (apparently more so, I would claim, in Scotland especially when it comes to any support toward the Tory party) It almost seems obligatory to hate the Tories in some parts of this country. In Scotland where it seems to be a Conservative voter you become a minority and this being the only minority in Scotland who can be hated with impunity.
As I said above, it’s a two horse race….Conservative or Labour, Yes Conservative often implement policies that add to the wealth of the rich but remember …the best paid 1 percent of the UK contribute 29 percent of all income tax collected at the moment and this money gets pumped back into public services.
I have watched Jeremy Corbyn on the Andrew Neil show getting grilled and failing terribly, as I write this I have yet to see Boris Johnson getting interviewed on that show, I expect that to be a car crash too but I won't base my voting considerations on this, I choose to make a choice between the lessers of two evils.
I don't intend to vote tactically for Labour in Scotland (hold the nose and vote the rose) to ensure SNP do not get another term in power up here (the UK uses first past the post voting system instead of proportional representation) as I fear strongly a SNP/Labour coalition or Labour conceding another Independence vote in Scotland which will add further divides....the threat of Corbyn's Labour is just too much for me to cast my mark in their box even who much I dislike the useless SNP.
I know a lot will put on a face and say shit behind my back about my choice of political party (although I do think more people than before here in Scotland will be voting Tory but just choose to stay quiet about it ) but I don't think any could prove to me with facts that Labour (or SNP) is a better choice and facts should be the currency we deal with here!
***UPDATE***
Today (29th) the Falkirk Labour Candidate Safia Ali has been removed due to antisemitic posts which she published on Facebook. Labour has a track history of antisemitism which I never touched upon with this post. In some areas with a more dense ethnic population in the UK they have even had (in the past at least) a separate seating area for woman to appease their Muslim electorate. This is totally unacceptable as is the Hijab which I consider a symbol of repression for women and was worn by the Falkirk Labour Candidate Safia Ali. How possibly can someone be taken seriously on topics relating to sexual rights when wearing the very symbol of misogynistic female repression!!!
