Labour Crashes Into Reality

Ed Miliband is working the, unplanned, distinction with his plan to outlaw 'zero hours' contracts and the Tories getting the backing of businesses. He supported the assertion that this meant Labour was for 'the people' and the Tories for 'the rich', even when asked if his stand didn't just mean people would lose their jobs.

Bang! Miliband crashes into reality, but no - he makes it plain that businesses know it is important that their workers feel secure, so would be OK about his stance. Really? So where do these zero hour contracts come from then? The employees don't want them Ed assures us, but the employers don't want to make their employees feel insecure.

Watching 'The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop' we were treated to an example of the real world, a place Ed Miliband is sure doesn't exist. A worker in a not-very-busy KFC said she hoped custom would pick up because, 'what's the point of a job if you only get 12 hours a week?'

This suggests she is on a zero hours contract and that she realises her income is tied to the success of the business. The business exists and so, as a consequence does her job. This simple fact of economic reality, known instinctively by a girl in a chicken shop, evades the man who would be Prime Minister.

For Miliband the sequence, in order of importance is that the government dictates how a business may operate, what the nature of its employment contracts must be (and much else) and then the business may exist. And in existing it must guarantee jobs for its employees. More than a whiff of Hollande there.

If the disaster of the last Labour administration was not enough to warn you off trying it again, how about the fact Miliband is in thrall to the policies enacted in France, ruining the country, but so big government! For him it is porn, a wet dream just across the channel.

Alongside a man so elite and separate that he doesn't know how to eat a bacon sandwich, was Rachel Reeves. Rachel of course is heavily pregnant and that got me thinking about reality and the lazy, un-considered policies of Labour (no pun intended).

With the enormous amounts of maternity leave now available and offered, will she get elected and then disappear? Will an unelected replacement pop up? And for how long? If you put your cross in the box for Rachel and end up with Dorkus Maximus, how pleased would you be?

Latest Farage Stunt

I gather some approximations of human beings drove Nigel Farage and family out of a pub at the weekend. I'm not sure if they objected to Nigel existing, to his family, to his right to have a pub lunch or what.

But here is the thing; we are constantly bombarded by stunts and media bile aimed at UKIP for daring to represent views contrary to the Establishment view. That Establishment view now being of course deeply Left wing. UKIP we are told are so nearly extreme Right (which it goes without saying means vile), really just a bit of the EDL etc. Violent, racist, homophobic thugs.

And where does most of the actual, real, happening violence come from? The Left, the Marxists and their travelling companions. 'Poll Tax' riots? A concocted effort of the Left. So called 'race riots'? Again, not based on anything but the agitators of the Left.

It really is time to wake up Britain. This is how the totalitarians attain power everywhere be it Russia, North Korea, Germany or France. Tin pot tyrants use the lack of resolve of the calm majority to their advantage by being extremely violent and simultaneously pointing and saying 'look over there at the nasty man'.

Blair wasn't such a beast. He didn't care about anything but himself and his bank account, but at least he hardly bothered to pretend otherwise. Deeply unpleasant, but easily disposed of. The likes of Miliband however, with his deep rooted Marxism is very dangerous.

Look at how political (and strangely useless at the same time) the police are. Look at the sustained attack on freedom of speech, first using the 'you can't say that' line, then enacting laws and pursuing the Press -using useful idiots like Hugh Grant.

You are told the Left is caring and the Right is only ever 'hard Right' and wishes you harm and includes the Conservative Party. The truth is the extremes are the Left of Miliband, Clegg and all the Marxists bands hiding alongside them, including fascists who are also mere totalitarians and the other end, the Right if you will of those who believe in freedom, liberty and individual justice.

I don't care how benign someone says they are, I would rather have a country where we can change our leaders and not just have to do what some self impressed gimp says.

And that is the point. The attack on Farage is and always is, because someone with a profile dares to oppose Left Groupthink. He hinders, merely by being allowed to speak, the Left wing project to turn this country into a single party dictatorship. Hence the lampooning of anything he says (usually by wilfully misquoting) and attempting to shout him down.

Ed Miliband - Not Quite Real

I nearly forgot again, it keeps happening to me. It is Ed Miliband who leads Labour isn't it? I have to check, you know. Anyway I heard the other day that he says you shouldn't blame teachers for a lack of sporting achievement in schools. Putting ideology before facts or common sense, let alone principle, Ed supports teaching Unions quite blindly.

If they are not to blame, despite the extensive reach of the 'non-competitive sports' beloved of the Left and promulgated throughout the teaching profession by the assiduous work of the teacher training colleges and Universities, the refusal to 'work' outside school hours -meaning sports clubs, then they also cannot be praised when the success is there.

That can't be right. If through dedication, hard work and belief in the kids they teach, our PE teachers turn out stars they deserve the highest praise. If they think the children should be held back to meet some socialist target, then they need to consider their choice of career. They are like some 'anti-Samaritans', encouraging people to suicide, such is their care-less negativity.

Mo Farah is living proof that hard work and effort is rewarded in this country and he said as much. No wonder Ed (it is Ed isn't it?) and his ilk have kept pretty quiet during the exceedingly popular, competitive Olympic Games. We have seen the wonderful British attitude shine through of applauding the people who came last or befell some misfortune; we are a fair people without being told to be so.

We scream and shout about the winners though, for their effort is the greatest and attracts the greatest reward. Those who cannot run faster than Usain Bolt recognise his talent and feel no shame. Instead they praise him and try a bit harder. They do not leave the Games suicidal as the Left and their 'psychologists' would have it.

I don't know if Anthony Joshua was saved from a life of crime by boxing, as is so often claimed in these cases, but what I saw was a talented youngster who was not just proud of his country, but thought of others and was well spoken. He had I'm sure bettered himself through his own efforts and that included respect for others. He didn't talk in some ghetto patois to gain respect, he did it the way you actually earn respect.

Too much youth in Britain is of the Simon Cowell mode; talentless and convinced that 'celebrity' and wealth can be achieved without effort. They see footballers as role models, with their extensive wealth based on a natural ability and little else. These footballers play poorly in competitions, particularly for their country, showing that they cannot effectively pass a ball, read the game or run for 90 minutes. These would seem prerequisites of the game, of their 'profession', but training is just so much effort.

No wonder they were so surprised, coming into contact with Olympic athletes. And also, thick footballers almost always stay thick. Improving themselves just means gold taps to them. A pox on all their houses.

Re-Joyce At The News

I'm betting that Miniband doesn't bring up binge drinking in the next PMQ's, not whilst his staunch Labour ally Eric Joyce is still rolling around. Mr Joyce, who by convention was referred to as the Right Honourable by the Speaker, you will be aware started fighting in a bar in the House of Commons. There wasn't a fight you understand, just a Scottish socialist lashing out violently. It is seeming ever more likely that Scotland will achieve independence, as some kind of pariah state.

It is just another, sad demonstration of how a once mighty people have been laid low because of a devotion to socialism that promised them riches, or er justice as they put it. Joyce of course represents the fine qualities socialism has to offer; me privileged, you not -but for the record you do have to do what I say.

My earlier cynicism that the police, under socialist control for some time now, would seek to gloss over the event, except complaints have been made , the disgusting oaf was still violent when they arrived and they had trouble detaining him. I wouldn't be surprised if, once under arrest he turned on the officers with a 'don't you know who I am?' I've heard it before and they really mean it, self important people are like that.

It will be interesting to see what happens though; I can't imagine socialists thinking they should be treated like any one else.

Miniband And The NHS

Ed Miniband seems to be trying to develop not understanding into an art form. If you had a room full of people who are given free meals every day and then someone came along and said it had to stop, how many people in the room would object? I'm guessing, most of them. Miniband thinks they would all support it.

You see, as proof that the NHS reforms proposed by the Coalition are wrong, he says that health care professionals almost all disagree with them. No, really, do they? I am sure that these excellent people are fed up with constant demands from central government, after 13 years of New Labour. But two things are necessary as a result; some proper, well thought-out reform is absolutely needed and the culture needs to change.

It is undoubted that the rise in deaths within the NHS, the increased inefficiencies and the entrenched resistance to lose benefits gained is rooted in the culture that NL infused this great institution with. Trust in the NHS was embedded in the bureaucracy, the bit politicians generally come into contact with (thus confirming to both sides the absolute nature of its importance). Doctors were given more money and nurses saw their status elevated, something they jealously guard by no longer seeing actual patient care, bedpans, food, drink as any part of their role.

The Managers, distracted by the mirror, constantly fiddled to 'achieve' the targets set by the unthinking politicians, whilst health care professionals set about killing ever more of their 'customers'. Whilst watching 'Junior Doctors' on BBC the other night it struck me that what I was seeing was two distinct and separate communities existing side by side, in the same building, the same room. Nurses stations, their huddles of conversation, the planning charts on the wall, all the machines and equipment, scattered as if suggesting temporary intention and pervasive, all conspire to create a world of work, of process, of form filling and routine.

Alongside this hive of activity was the patient, unknowing, quiet, thankful, in no way part of this buzz of busyness except is some seemingly tangential way. This is not to say some are not providing excellent care and do their job well, just that the whole thing seems to operate as a divide, that at some point everyone 'at work' in a hospital forgot that the patients are actually people. And the fact is these people are often in the worst condition to be able to cope with the modern concept of a hospital.

It has to be this subtle cultural desert that NL cast wide across our society that afflicts the NHS too; it has always been too monolithic and capable of killing its charges too regularly, but the attitude that seeped out of NL was one of an absolute lack of care, at the most basic level, for anyone else. Greed and personal greed, was good. Reporting to the centre was what mattered in any walk of life. NL told you what to do and knew what was good for you. Trust the state.

Who would not be corrupted by such siren voices? And so, no I am not terribly surprised that the people inside this monster do not want to see change. This resistance even extends to the simple premise; does the NHS kill too many people. 'Yes, I'm afraid it does' a Consultant would honestly admit. 'And what are you doing about it?' comes the enquiry (which inherently suggests 'change'). Now all our honest Consultant could say would be, 'er well let me see. I get paid quite a bit more now, does that help?'

Not forgetting of course, that most of the 'august bodies' objecting to health service reforms are now nothing more than trade unions.

In The News Today

Ed Miliband, who is apparently the leader of the Labour party, says today that his new crusade is against rip-off Britain, which is I think an old New Labour chant that they didn't do anything about when they could. His targets don't seem to include the real rip-off artists such as the utilities companies, railways, local and central government. These are all things the government is already involved in, as could be guessed by the fact that they are all out of control.

Elsewhere reports of severe cuts to the RAF and the Ghurkas mention these as 'MoD cuts', when in fact they are front line cuts. I bet the MoD in Whitehall haven't been touched, as they continue to order kit we don't want from companies that can't supply, but charge anyway. Oh and award themselves bonuses for turning up, or not. When did it become impossible to get rid of the bit that doesn't work?

The Scottish civil service chief says that the Scots should prepare for independence. Presumably he will be issuing advice on how to treat yourself for a range of injuries once the hospitals have to close, how to avoid cholera when the bins aren't emptied and that it is still illegal to burn itinerants or even family members who have passed away, no matter how cold you get. At least it will stop the nation being a welfare state, as they also won't be paying any benefits, after what money they can borrow has been spent on essentials like a fleet of limousines for Alex, a private jet, a refurbished palace and hot dinners.

And the captain of the Italian cruise liner currently reposing on its side in the Ligurean Sea seems to be preparing to defend his actions, by saying that it was dark. Captain Tremulous left the ship as soon as he thought he might be in danger and figured that his job was to be in charge of the ship only while it was sailing, not while it was sinking. Had he left it much longer, he would have had to push women and children out of his way to escape and how unseemly would that have been?

The coastguard ordered him back on board to collate information about those in peril, but Captain Jelly countered that it was dark and he felt he could help much better by being on a rescue boat. It was interesting to hear the exchange with the coastguard, gabbling in that excited way we expect of Italians and the captain maintaining the calm demeanour of one who knows he has just dodged a dangerous situation by leaving, at the earliest possible opportunity. To say the man is a disgrace and a stain on the Italian nation, is to promote him.

Cameron Gimmicks?

The Leader of the Opposition has accused the Prime Minister of a knee jerk reaction to the riots and of suggesting gimmicks instead of proper policy. I expect whoever writes his speeches had done that one some time ago; Miliband does have a habit of saying vaguely relevant things as his view of events. He was just waiting for that vague connection to unleash it.

A modern politician suggesting gimmicks? It is the same as saying dogs breathe. What Cameron says doesn't hugely excite, unless his sudden lurch into the territory of a Conservative becomes real and permanent. But the absolute rubbish being spouted by Labour is almost unbelievable.

Miliband comes from a party that, in power actually thought their gimmicks were policy. They had no regard for the outcome of their actions and broke the law when they felt like it, requiring acquiescence from those who should have acted. The riots are the result of years of left-liberal pandering and Labour carelessness after all.

Labour

These are the times we are living in. Despite the fact that Labour were obviously ruinously useless the electorate still voted for them in larger numbers than their direct families. This is bizarre, as it suggests that people are either monumentally stupid or pay no attention at all before putting an X in the box they always have. (Accepting of course a large section is a bought vote by Labour).

Now, perhaps because the sense of the people is so stunted, Labour feel safe in continuing with corruption as their core ideology. Blair introduced this stunning concept when he realised there is no effective control over politicians and that the electorate were vulnerable to being lied to. By allowing a system to exist whereby a candidate of the Unions choosing can be elected leader of the Labour Party, Labour accept something that would seem outrageous to anyone else. Ed Miliband perhaps proves he is in the Unions pocket by declaring, immediately that he isn't. He believes that power is vital and politics an important and difficult job. Experience in anything other than in-fighting and lying (naturally) is unnecessary. These venal and easily corrupted half-wits are being manipulated by very sinister people, who want a Marxist government, that they run. A Socialist Utopia that redistributes some of the workers wealth whilst maintaining themselves as a rich elite, far removed from the laws they enforce on others. Hence we have 'journalists' like Polly Toynbee, rich, multi-housed and working for a Socialist paper that pays no tax in the UK, insisting that we should have more state control and higher taxes. Though, ha, it mustn't impinge on her lifestyle! As I always say, she is rich enough to be a Socialist. (The other committed Socialist of course, is the person who has no intention of contributing, but quite likes the idea of free money from someone else's efforts). In fact, you can view Socialism as Capitalism without the sharing, without the option to better yourself.

In Ed Miliband the Unions have found their dolt. Blair of course was so self-centred and focused on personal wealth and power that the Unions would never get a look in. Ed however is a pushover. Tell him it is for a better, Socialist society and he will do what he is told. When your ideology is based on corruption, in whatever form that takes, Blair's or the Unions it means suffering for their dupes. And that means us.