It is the first day of the election campaign and I watched the first major event in this campaign, a party political broadcast by Scottish Labour. It was exactly as I expected and how I expect the whole campaign to continue. This broadcast fulfilled all of my expectations from a Westminster party, it began with two blatant lies. The Westminster elite are so corrupt that they lie without shame, the tragedy is that they have so corrupted the political process in this sorry country that they get away with it.
Labour began (and I am not picking on Labour, I am commenting on the broadcast they did. Anyone who reads this blog will know that I have total contempt for all the Westminster personnel and the parties they represent) by telling us that this election is a choice between two completely different value systems. This is the party who have committed themselves to the Tories spending plans and who have openly told us (in the shape of their appalling welfare spokesperson Rachel Reeves) that they intend being even harder on people on benefits than the Tories. She actually stated that Labour will not represent people on benefits, only hardworking families, seemingly oblivious that approximately half of hardworking families are on benefits. The implication in all of this rhetoric is of course that if they consider any family to be not a 'hardworking' family then they will hammer them. No-one of course ever defines what a hardworking family is. I assume that they do not consider a woman who takes the decision to stay at home and raise her children to be hardworking. I also assume that they choose to ignore the fact that none of the major charities, including the Rowntree Foundation have ever managed to locate a family where there is not at least one person in the family in some kind of work. Now I do not accept that the Tories, with Labour's 100% support, have conjured up a myth of whole families scrounging off benefits, it is not a myth, it is an outright lie and they know its a lie. They are quite despicable. So, as far as values are concerned, you could not slide a cigarette paper between these two sets of lying scumbags.
This broadcast then went on to tell us how much the Labour Party value the health service and how they are committed to protecting it from further privatisations. One of the biggest millstones that the health service carries are the numerous Private Finance Initiatives it is burdened with. Private Finance Initiatives are a genuine form of legalised gangsterism and were promoted ruthlessly under Gordon Brown, both as Chancellor and as Prime Minister. The last health secretary in the last Labour administration was Andy Burnham who was responsible for 221 PFI's, projects that will pay fortunes to private gangsters for many years to come and will drain the health budget year on year of millions of pounds. Mr Burnham is the man who strides about spouting a Scouse accent to try to make him appear working class but is neoliberal to his core and a genuine enemy of working people.
We will have to steel ourselves for this endless onslaught of lies and hatred over the next six weeks. I intend writing about the quite astonishing hatred of the Scots that has emerged even before the election has gotten underway. From the valued partners of the great British family, the people Britain could not afford to lose in the run-up to the referendum, we have suddenly become dangerous and frightening, and, I hope you have noted, not entitled to express our democratic rights unless they coincide with the apsirations of the Westminster vermin. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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