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A Bonfire Of Blairism
EURSOC has a cunning plan that might be the last chance to save the Tories - and the country
The Tories, Britain’s main opposition party, is on the brink of collapse. After ten years out of power, having been beaten in three successive national elections and in spite of two years preparation they now find themselves a massive ten points behind Gordon Brown’s ‘New New-Labour’ in the polls. In view of the fact that the electoral system is also scandalously stacked against them, it means they hardly stand a chance.
The Tories' demise would be a national tragedy. New Labour’s ideologically motivated agenda has seeped into every aspect of the British state and that state has expanded its role to Kafkaesque proportions. The collapse of effective opposition would leave Britons at the mercy of a one party state, a party hell bent on frog-marching the whole nation to ‘politically correct’ serfdom.
Gordon Brown has been highly successful in making the change and coming across as serious and competent, but strangely the rapid, almost weird, disappearance of Blair has taken the shine off the last ten years. It is as if someone just turned on the lights in a seedy nightclub and you can suddenly see the filth of the place you’ve spent the evening.
Cameron’s revamp of the Tories meanwhile has been an unmitigated failure. As EURSOC predicted, they have been duped into trying to steal the so-called ‘centre ground’ from ‘New-New Labour’ by ditching hard policy in favour of image and the adoption of pathetic ‘green’ platitudes. Egged on by the left-leaning media, they have been comprehensively outflanked by Gordon Brown, leaving them nowhere to go.
Furthermore, in their haste to paint themselves into a political corner, the Tories have completely failed in their role as the official opposition, not having once managed to land a serious blow on a government that has left a trail of incompetence, deceit and political ‘open goals’ that the Tories have failed to exploit. In this they have not just let themselves down, but the whole democratic process. Their sheer lack of spine has simply served to make credible a disreputable government.
In truth the polls are irrelevant and the Tories could still win. The people would vote for a mangy cat if it said the right thing and meant it. Everyone you ever meet has a reason to dislike or blame Blair, or to be precise the things he did. Together, all those angry people probably make a majority and come from all corners of the political spectrum.
So why not do what is obvious to everyone other than the gentlemen and ladies in Westminster and Fleet Street and reverse every damned stupid thing Blair ever did. Expose New-New Labour as Old New Labour.
Presuming the Tories seriously want to be in power then why not propose: A bonfire of Blairism.
- Health and Safety: scrap the whole thing.
- The diversity racket: scrap it.
- Unlimited immigration: Call a complete halt until control is established over those who are already here.
- Human rights: Either scrap the European convention, or properly implement it regarding state abuse of normal citizens, not just transvestites, terrorists, convicts and Satanists, as favoured by New-Lab and their allies.
- Restore Parliament's sovereignty: Parliament is where the buck stops and where democracy starts. All European law should be subjected to parliamentary scrutiny and ratification.
- Sort out the imbalance between English and Scottish votes.
- Build more prisons
- Restore mandatory sentences
- Put more police on the street
- Restore right to sanctity of home and privacy
- Kick out extremists and close down extremist mosques, just like the French do. Despite what is argued in the media, there are specific derogation clauses in the human rights act which should allow us to do just this. New-Lab tries to pretend they don’t apply.
- Restore discipline in schools
- Reduce government funding for ‘fake jobs’
- Reduce taxes where possible
- Bring back foxhunting.
- Allow smoking in dedicated establishments
- No more entering someone’s home without a court warrant (there are currently 266 reasons for which authorities can come barging into your home).
- Close useless Quangos, starting with the most frivolous .
- Scrap the identity card scheme.
- Scrap the DNA database scheme, which is not compatible with a free society.
- Force the BBC to stick to their mandate and to stop running their own political agenda.
- Re-establish independence of the civil service, police, and judiciary.
- Start an inquiry into the £18billion overspend on the NHS database that should only cost £18million.
- Get rid of targets and quotas in education and the health service.
- Pull out of Iraq on the basis that it was started by deceit and the war does not serve Britain's interests.
- Put back together the army regiments that were disbanded by Blair and open a wide-ranging enquiry into funding of the armed forces.
- Properly equip the military, including the Navy, building our own ships where necessary.
- Restore and clarify the historic relationship between state, monarch, and the Church of England: New Labour has been enthusiastic about the social model of our Northern European neighbours but refuses to acknowledge that these cultures were largely formed on a close relationship between church, monarchy and state.
- Massively reduce CCTV spying on citizens.
I'm sure all readers have others they'd like to add to the list: Anything else that you can think of to be rid forever of Blair and his ‘achievements’ for good.
This is a moment of truth for the Tory party and for the country. If the Tories fight this election on the ‘centre ground’ (a bit from the right, a bit
on the left) they will lose. Its no good barking on about the government's record, we now know it doesn’t stick. Tell Mr Brown you are going to dismantle New Labour's “achievements” and he will have to defend them, making them his.
Let's go to the core of the matter. Does the country like the result of ten years' of radical Blairism and want five more years of more of the same thing with a new, more determined, face?
Or would the people like the opportunity to undo the whole shebang? Go back ten years before the cheesy grin invaded our lives and made ‘change for change sake’ a religion.
New Labour was built on two versions of the truth:
The spin version.
The real version.
Between these lies both its genius and its fatal weakness. Its genius is that it has managed to bamboozle on an epic scale via its media manipulation.
Its weakness, is that the great media spectacle and bubble called New Labour is wearing blinkers and is deaf to how people feel and see it on the street.
In short they actually believe their own hype.
To beat New Labour you need to call its bluff.
The Tories need to make their campaign a ‘referendum’ on whether Britons like the radical engineering job that is the result of Blair and Brown's ten years in office and promise to undo the lot, nothing more, nothing less and watch the edifice come crashing down.
If on the other hand the majority still votes New Labour then I say,
“It's a Fair cop. We deserve it.”
