What's wrong with the British Labour Party?

by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

Maybe it would be better for this question to be “what's right with the British Labour Party? For there the answer would be simple; little to nothing. This is no longer the Labour Party we had grown to love.

The very party that came out of the struggle of the labour unions and others for a decent life all and here especially for the working classes, those that were always downtrodden, has definitely thrown all its principles to the wind to such an extent that the founders and especially the old stalwarts of the likes of Hardy, Bevan, Brockway and Salter would turn in their graves if they but knew. The British Labour Party of today has committed high treason on the working classes of this country.

The Labour Party, or New Labour, as it re-branded itself under Tony Blair, is new indeed. So new that real Labour men and women would never ever recognize it again. It is more right wing nowadays than parties that were once seen as on the right, such as the Tories, for instance. Over the last decade or so Labour, and especially the Labour government of this country, has developed more and more as a party and the government of Britain a people control complex, needing to more and more put the people of this country on a tight reign, with an attempt of a National ID card system, something that freedom-loving Britain has never had, except during the crisis of World War II, in an attempt to know the whereabout of most people most of the time in an instant, and of every subject of Her Majesty as to where they go, what they do, etc.

It may be high time that Her Majesty, our Queen, made use of the Powers that are Hers by right of being the Sovereign, to “do the right thing for the people and by the people” from the principle that the Sovereign can do no wrong.

DNA databases of all people, starting with the youngest children already is not the way to go. The people must realize that themselves by now, I am sure, and it is they that must do something about it.

Traditional and long established freedoms and such are being eroded by this government in the supposed attempt to fight terrorism. What terrorism? This is not a government for the people; this is a government against the people. What the Nazis could not achieve in this country, in that our fathers, grandfathers, uncles, etc, gave their lives in order to retain the freedoms in this country, the government is now taking away. Hitler and his ilk would be proud, that is all I can say.

When a minister of a Labour government can publicly state that the “Freedom of Speech” in the UK, that we all, and especially those of us in the media, take for granted and have taken for grated for ages and centuries, is not a freedom and right of the people but just a privilege granted to them that can as easily be curtailed or revoked then we must sit up and take note and realize as to what is going on, for then we are in serious trouble of entering a fascist state.

There was a time when Labour was the party of the little man, of the downtrodden man, the man who was oppressed. This is not longer the case, it seems. Rather it is Labour, in government, who now is doing the oppressing.

© M Smith (Veshengro), April 2008