Ed Miliband and the Labour Party just keep on showing us how contemptuous and dismissive they are of working people and the poor of this country and their hatred of the trades unions. Every address he has made to the Labour conference (who of course enthusiastically applaud him) since he became leader has contained some reference to why working people should never take any form of industrial action to defend their terms and conditions of service in the face of open government warfare against working people and the poor. He also determinedly refuses to give any assurances that Labour will take measures that will protect working people and so remove the need for industrial action. In 13 years in government in which Miliband was a minister during some of this period, Labour never lifted a finger to alter any of the Tories draconian anti-union legisation, and Miliband quite clearly has no intention of doing so either.Why the unions continue to bankroll these clowns is a complete mystery as they have been quite open about their contempt and loathing for working people and the unions since Blair and his cronies took over. Labour is now a party of the rich and has been taken over by careerists who have graduated from the elite university system and are well schooled in the delights of free market neoliberalism. Miliband himself and some of his circle have links to Harvard University and so are fully committed to the neoliberal agenda. What Miliband and Labour are offering the British people, is not relief from the neoliberal experiment and its attendant economic and social misery, but a promise that they will apply it more in a more humane and, in Miliband's words 'responsible' manner. I trust the British people will note that in the 5 years since the start of the economic crisis, Labour has still to come up with a policy to deal with gangster bankers.
This attitude is compounded by Labour in Scotland who regard people who have worked all their lives and paid thousands into national insurance schemes over their working lives as scroungers who are part of what the Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont calls a something for nothing culture. Lamont is obviously loyally obeying instructions from the Westminster Labour elite. The notion that Scottish Labour has something resembling a mind of their own would be laughable were it not so serious for the Scottish electorate. Labour are clearly setting their stall out to capture the Daily Mail, Daily Express reading public and the middle class who they think will abandon the Lib Dems and the Tories, and working on the assumption that the working classes in both England and Scotland will line up in their millions to vote for them regardless of how they are treated. In Scotland they may well find that they get what the Scots refer to as a 'gunk.' There may well be a debate to be had over the issues of free care for the elderly and free bus passes, but these arrogant cretins are seriously out of order by telling the elderly they are getting something for nothing.
Labour have abandoned the working classes, and don't even pretend to represent working people any longer. At least with the Tories the poor know they will get stuffed, but they expect better from Labour. They are in for a gunk with this lot!
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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