Could NuLabour be heading for the worst local election results it has experienced since the 1960's? The Times reports that senior political analysts are speculating that Thursday’s poll could mirror Labour’s results in 1968, when it only achieved 28.5 per cent of the vote in London while the Tories got 60.1 per cent. I hope this is true as this rotten and corrupt administration needs a bloodied nose and hopefully the electorate will give it one.
In the meanwhile, it is obvious that UNLESS the media really crank up the pressure some more, neither Clarke or Prescott will resign. They can't - there are no replacements left in Blair's dwindled ranks of loyalists. The Blair administration is now beyond parody, it is revealed as a cabal of the most arrogant incompetents one could ever imagine, it's key strategies have fallen apart and the tricks with smoke and mirrors can no longer cover this harsh fact up. We desperately need a change in Government - so, could we have an opposition please?
I'm thoroughly convinced that Blair will not sack Prescott or Clarke because they KNOW something about Blair, they've got some goodies on him which would bring the whole government down if it was revealed. (Think back to John Major - a man who we now know had an affair before he became PM, unknown to the public until a few years ago, yet he was allowed to become PM, I'll tell you why, blackmail. Conservative central office chose him because they knew they could "trust" him not to rock the boat, or else. Just like it's being said that both Gordon Brown and Tony Blair "trust" Prescott to broker the changeover of leadership between them...I wonder why??) What a vomit-inducing corrupt bunch of cretins they all are.
I read Cameron's Q&A interview in The Independent yesterday, and I was similarly repulsed by his refusal to answer the simple question of whether he did, in fact, puff the odd joint earlier in his life. What an idiot, doesn't he realise he is setting himself up for a similar scandal later on? Why not just be honest about it now? Labour, Tories, I'm sick of them all.
Posted by: Tom Tyler | May 02, 2006 at 09:58 AM
Why has Brown got away so lightly after a debacle with tax credits payments for the second year running. Neither competetent or prudent!
Posted by: NRG | May 02, 2006 at 10:04 AM
Hey, David, here's some lyrics I fiddled around with a few days ago, I think you'll appreciate this!
Dedicated to everyone who voted Labour last year: "I hope you're happy now!"
Blair's a fine figure of a man and handsome too
Clarke spies upon our liberties which he'd like to undo
1000 crooks freed, who knows who, or where they are now?
And I hope you're happy now
Brown's got all the things you need and some that you will never
With his steel-eyed frown like frozen fish, his taxes last forever
Still he knows what's best for you, and what he won't allow
And I hope you're happy now
I hope that you're happy now like you're supposed to be
And I hope your Labour vote will hurt you more than it hurts me
Prescott's acting innocent and proud still you know what he's after
Like a gigolo with his pork sword, while we all die of laughter
In his turquoise pyjamas and council-tax free flat
I hope you're happy now because they'll soon put paid to that
I knew then what I know now, Labour screws you any way, anyhow
And I hope you're happy now!
Posted by: Tom Tyler | May 02, 2006 at 10:07 AM
Tom,
I read the same thing with Call me Dave and it was indeed vomit inducing. The truth is not in him.
Posted by: David Vance | May 02, 2006 at 10:08 AM
Until a couple of weeks ago I thought that the elections might not be to bad for Labour, because Cameron didn't really enthuse his core supporters who are the only people who vote in local elections, but it looks like Clarke and the the BFG (Big Fat Groper) have done the job for him. Of course this assumes that Cameron regards having Conservative councillors as a good thing.
Incidently has anyone noticed how none of Gordon Brown's allies have been getting into trouble, uncanny isn't it.
Posted by: Ross | May 02, 2006 at 11:43 AM
Tom,
That's excellent - I just read it! I love the aggression behind the original song (!) and I think your pastiche carries the right level of disgust that any decent person must feel at the NuLabour goon squad (!)
Posted by: David Vance | May 02, 2006 at 12:54 PM
Patricia Hewitt in a parallel universe, says things are good when no one can get a dentist, Charles Clarke incompetent and evasive, John Prescott sleazy and vulgar and hasn’t been seen to do much that is useful, Gordon Brown buying votes by creating thousands of non-jobs and racking up the debt and taxes and making a debacle of tax credits 2 years on the trot, Tessa Jowell benefiting from hundreds of thousands of pounds she says she didn’t know about and splitting up with her husband until the cameras left the doorstep, the Blairs on the take, Ruth Kelly a religious fundamentalist telling us everyone is getting A grades while the Universities and employers say the kids can’t read or write, the MoD can’t get fire extinguishers into war planes, the trains don’t work and the streets are a weekend battle zone.
Things can only get better because it can’t get much worse than this. Nine more years anyone?
Posted by: NRG | May 02, 2006 at 03:42 PM
The woman explained that they were only costume jewelry but very convincing pieces.
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