To follow Caron's lead on this, what would I rather do than join the Labour Party?
- Become a Tottenham Hotspur fan (I loathe them);
- Walk along a mountain face precipice, Italian Job style (I suffer from a mixture of vertigo and claustrophobia);
- Wind the clock back and go to school naked as happened far too often in those bizzare dreams we all have as children;
- Sit in a room with David Coulthard for more than 10 minutes (those who know me well know that I have little time for that pompous prat of a lacklustre, talentless ex-Formula One driver);
- Appear on an Iceland advert (probably the worst made adverts in the history of TV advertising).
Why?
Well, I can't better Caron's observations which are spot on.
- Iraq - an illegal war, enough said;
- Implicating this country in complicity with torture;
- Letting down the poorest by increasing the gap between rich and poor;
- Failing to fix the roof when the sun was shining - meaning we all suffer as a result of their economic incompetence;
- Failing to regulate the banks, either before or after the crash;
- Wasting a fortune on illiberal ID cards;
- Their dissembling over the cuts in spending they would have made if they had won the election;
- The appalling mess they made of the Tax Credit system, and their treatment of thousands of poor families, forced to repay thousands they couldn't afford;
- Imposing control orders on people without telling them even what they were being accused of;
- Centralising public services to the detriment of people using them;
- Taking kids' DNA without parents' permission;
- Storing the DNA of innocent people;
- Running an inhumane and often brutal immigration system;
- Making a hash job of House of Lords reform;
- Refusing to carry out their election promise of brining in electoral reform.
I am not illiberal, I am not an authoritarian, I do not want to be ruled by the unions and I am not obsessed with centralisation. I therefore do not want to join the Labour Party.
A Lib Dem through and through
I am a coalitionist in as far as I believe that we need to be grown up enough to work with others to put the country back on the right track.
That doesn't mean that I agree with every policy that this government comes up with. Why should I? This government is mainly made-up of a Conservative Party that I have little time for. But we must accept that compromise is necessary to move the country forward.
I will disagree with the coalition when I feel it right to do so but that will not hide my pride in the fact that we as Lib Dems are putting our policies into government for the well-being of the people we represent for the first time at a UK-wide level for generations.
Labour had their chance and they blew it and you Mr Miliband sat around the Cabinet table when a number of those decisions were made.
I'd rather jump off a pier into the sea than join the Labour Party (I can't swim).
You forgot to mention New Labour introduced Tuition fees in the first instance!
ReplyDeleteHa! Indeed!
ReplyDelete- He was voted in by the AV system and the Labour Party seem to be back pedalling in supporting voting reform. He has not taken a lead and said the Party will back AV in the Referendum. Now, Labour lords are trying to stall progress.
ReplyDelete- Debt deniers. No positive proposals to cut the deficit. Always criticising ANY cuts and say now is not the time to cut, but never say when is the time!
- instead of trying to butter up the Lib Dems for possible support after the next election, he is continuing to stick the knife into the Lib Dems. They are now the Nasty Party. Their actions are bitter hatred towards us and they still seem to think that as we made a mistake in joining the coalition, what was a viable alternative. As Thatcher said, there was no alternative. A rainbow coalition would not have lasted 5 mins after Plaid and the SNP make huge demands on their coalition partners. People in England would not take that blackmail and would tells Plaid and the SNP where to go.
I'm sure there are plenty of other good reasons not to join Miliband, so any Lib Dem who choses to leave us and go to Labour and most welcome to join them as they are no loss to us.
JUST GO !!!!
Thank you for the link - appreciated, and I like all your points except the one about the fabulous Mr Coulthard. I would happily volunteer to take your place in the room with him. I could happily spend hours chatting about his career in particular and F1 in general.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the nod that the Blessed Brundle is on Twitter. I've linked to your twitter profile in my blog post which will be published shortly and will slip in a link to your blog too.
I'll happily give you Mr Coulthard then Caron!
ReplyDeleteI only happened to see that Brundle was on Twitter yesterday and it looked like a pukka account and within 24 hours he'd amassed 20,000 followers! That's impressive!