By Mike Newland
After a decade of increasingly blatant contempt for the views of the voters, it may just be beginning to dawn on the Great British Public that the three major parties are really one party. We tried we really tried!
The ‘major’ parties are, of course, the ones accepted by the media and ‘decent opinion’ as those entitled to rule Britain. Size of membership in itself will not make a party officially ‘major’ and their ranks are largely now in any event filled by those seeking opportunity within the power structure rather than believers in a particular way of doing things. They are not parties at all in fact but business associations.
The reality, which should have been grasped decades ago, is that the ‘parties’ are simply poisonous factions within a ruling class who rather fancy the trappings of office, the respect and the giant sums of money available when they have had their bit of fame. Your welfare is irrelevant. It’s interesting that perhaps the worst of the lot but not by so great a margin, Tony Blair, is now apparently the role model for the Tories.
So we should not be surprised to learn that the leading schemer in Blair’s entourage during his time in power and before, Peter Mandelson, has formed a close political association with the person tipped to be Cameron’s successor. One might describe Mandelson as a cackling old witch boiling up spells – but he’d take it as a compliment.
If you imagine things are bad now with the present incumbent of 10 Downing Street, you may soon be looking back on a Golden Age. Some months ago, a leading member of the House of Lords resigned after being accused of snorting white powder with a prostitute. Almost unnoticed went his resignation comment that Cameron was the shallowest Prime Minister ever to have occupied the office.
The writer, Peter Oborne, is a little naïve occasionally but his account of George Osborne’s new friendship in the Daily Mail can broadly be trusted. He wrote a biography of Alastair Campbell – another nasty piece of work in Blair’s inner circle.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3287203/PETER-OBORNE-surprising-dangerous-love-un.html
Labour is of no use any more to Lord Mandelson. Such things are only vehicles to such people for as long as they are useful. The Blairites are being purged and Labour has no chance of getting power. Some say they don’t want it by conventional means. The idea is to make voting so discredited that people come to accept something else eventually. Nothing really new there of course. That’s the communist route to power and why the communist left don’t stand in elections. Mandelson himself has spoken of a post-democratic future but Labour is now too unimaginative to pull off such a coup.
Where should a man like Peter Mandelson now look for advancement and the opium of power? Cameron is on his way out. Where else but to the heir to the throne whose credentials have been polished by a self-created myth of having brought on a miraculous economic recovery with falling national debt?
Osborne will be well aware of how the great prize slips from the grasp of so many when it seemed a certainty. He needs all the help he can get and no one doubts the low cunning which a man like Mandy can bring to his assistance.
Osborne’s greatest rival, Boris Johnson, has once too often shown himself too clever by half and this has been noticed. It’s best not to be seen too often putting up a finger to see which way the wind is blowing before expressing an opinion. Theresa May has serious health problems and a dismal record of direct failure concerning immigration. But there are others who can present as fresh new faces after a few more years of public disillusion with the Tories.
The substance of the plan, as Oborne analyses it, is to delay the referendum on the EU until the EU President Juncker announces new integration of the EU countries turning them effectively into a single superstate. Britain will then be allowed not to proceed any further – or at least that will be the temporary pretence. The voters will then be so grateful at being promised no further entrapment that they will accept the status quo where we are already tied hand and foot not even controlling our own borders.
Britain remains in the EU and Osborne sweeps into Downing Street draped in laurels having organised success in the referendum as well as being Britain’s economic saviour.
Does anyone still believe that these people and the others like them at the top of the pole care anything about you or me? Unfortunately rather a lot although many more are now wavering.
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I believe Britain is now run by a very nasty homosexual cabal. Hence all the new laws on hate and weddings, for and against sexual deviancy.
One thing according to John Tyndall. that effected the demise of the National Front. Birds of a feather do tend to flock.
A our entire establishment were schooled at private establishments, Where goings on of that nature happened, Its not that surprising is it . And Mandy its high priest
I think the National Front largely caused its own demise through stupid and immature political ‘tactics’ like marching which made even sympathetic people think they were a bunch of thugs rather than there being some mystical homosexual cabal in the party. Hopefully, this party will have learnt from the NF’s many mistakes and this includes driving away people of varied backgrounds who could help and being ‘hung-up’ on irrelevant maters which the voters are simply not interested in. Many in our political Establishment were educated at private schools but not all of them were.
( Party Official ) Like many things there are untrue myths about the National Front. We marched and were attacked by commie thugs , immigrants and even gangsters , because of our views on law and order. The violence was blamed on us. Football violence was all our fault too and yet the truth was that N.F. football fans used to meet in friendship , all over the country on match days.People who fought OUR CAUSE FROM THE SEVENTIES DESERVE A CIVIC MEDAL ! If only people had listened , Britain would have been saved what is to come !
I have no doubt that much of what you are saying here is entirely true but and its a big one the media used whatever violence there was to construct a bad image for the NF which stuck (rightly or wrongly). They would be perfectly happy to do so today as well and frankly political parties that are serious don’t march (even if they do have entirely peaceful intentions) as they don’t look like real political parties then. Yes, REAL politics is a hard slog and is often boring at times but that is the nature of the game!
Someone from last night’s masked demonstration was on John Gaunt’s show. He displayed the same political amateurism as did the NF in its marching days. He said only a minority present would be violent. True. But without any trouble the MSM simply kills the point of a march by giving it no publicity. It’s how they work. So to get publicity you need violence and then you get bad publicity. Doh!!!
Read the ‘eleventh hour’ by JT it might give your a change of heart . And yes marching is now seen as immature. But are you not using today zeitgeist to try and usurp the feelings and morality of those times back almost 60 years ago. Getting noticed then was by in your face methods.
Now its not, although the left tend to do it quite often and unmolested. as tomorrow I believe . the anonomous march, that will get violent ,proceeds.
That’s the whole point. Feelings and morality are self-expression not politics which is a carefully constructed usually boring programme designed to gain effective support. They can generate politics but are not politics in themselves. The marchers got noticed alright and the reputation of fighting in the street still clings to them.
Indeed. Too many in the NF were not interested in REAL politics which can be very boring and a hard slog. Marching is no substitute for trying to gain support in the ballot box and constructing a political programme to gain people’s votes. Such a programme has to be carefully considered and not just appeal to the base emotions of very small numbers of people but be more broad in its appeal.
Perhaps Mr Newland, you could define for us plebs. exactly what politics is. My idea that they are about life in general, for all, may seem a little quaint.
And morality and self expression are all part of the human experience, whether one has them or not.
Politics they say is the art of the possible. A very bland statement spun by some academic years hence.
But then in my view politics and academia should never cross paths. Only action men need apply.
I would respectfully suggest that our future leaders won’t be the likes of either Mendelson or Osborne, but rather the people referred to in the video here:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE6YA1COy8Q
Mandelsohn was a member of the Communist Party in his youth was he not… I think I heard Mr Brons say that a couple of times on the telly. I doubt otherwise i would ever have known. And now the prospect of a former Communist Party member teaming up with an Etonian ? Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
George Osbourne didn’t go to Eton College he went here: http://www.stpaulsschool.org.uk. Looks like they do learn economics there but as far as I am aware George Osbourne hasn’t got any formal qualifications in economics (not even a GCE O level ect)! with his stewardship of the British economy bearing testament to that!
It is possible George ‘Osbourne’ did not go to Eton College and then again neither did The Right Honourable
George Osborne MP.
Osborne was educated at independent schools: Norland Place School, Colet Court and St Paul’s School. In 1990 he was awarded a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford, where in 1993 he received a 2:1 bachelor’s degree in Modern History. While there he was a member of the Bullingdon Club. He also attended Davidson College in North Carolina for a semester as a Dean Rusk Scholar.
( Party Member ) The internet allows non entities to have a say. They criticise people who are doing something with their life ! These people are always very left wing , never have a job , wife or girlfriend , qualifications or any achievements whatsoever. With a ‘ big chip ‘ on their shoulder they live alone or still with their mother , even in middle age !
Indeed it does but I am not a ‘non entitie’. I have no problem with where George Osbourne went to school. I do have a problem with how he he is handling the British economy but then I am not a Tory (you CAN be ‘Right-wing’ and not a Tory) and neither should supporters of the British Democrats be Conservatives!
( Party Official ) As a NON MEMBER or even a REAL supporter , against my wishes you Steven , have been given considerable space to air your views on OUR website. To tell our MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS what to be or think is a bit rich !
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9036927/Nathaniel-Rothschild-says-sauna-with-Lord-Mandelson-was-purely-pleasure-not-business.html
( Party Official ) Talking about the Major Party’s , the Media are helping the Labour branch of the LIBLABCON by NOT PUBLISHING the fact that the LABOUR PARTY SHADOW CHANCELLOR is going round saying that COUNTRIES ARE BECOMING OBSELETE and there should be NO BORDERS ! hAS HIS HOUSE GOT A FRONT DOOR ? HAS HIS GARDEN GOT A FENCE AND GATE ? Maybe at the next Labour Conference they will end with playing the @ LOONEY TUNES ‘ CARTOON THEME MUSIC INSTEAD OF THE red flag !