Personally, I'd agree with most of what Labour Supporter said, if it were true.
But much of it isn't.
He makes a big song and dance about ordinary , less well-off people.
Quite right. A lot of us come from there. I'm from a mining village, for instance.
Trouble is, the Labour government has forgotten its roots.
Under Labour, the gap between rich and poor has exploded. Why? WHatever happened from each according to his means, to each according to his needs?
Under labour, house prices have gone beyond the reach of the low paid. Why?
Why can't my daughter and her partner afford a house? Why can't Alan?
Under Labour, public transport has either become crap, or it's priced out of their reach. OK, so you can get a return ticket to London for £59 if you travel at crap times and book 10 years in advance. I can drive there, I can fly there, I can pay £280 for a ticket. But Low paid people can't do it. Why? We have the dearest trains in EUROPE. Why? Why can't an ordinary Manchester family of 4 have a day out in London tomorrow if the faqncy takes them?
My son will soon go to uni. No problem. I'll finance him. My neighbour's kid will have to go into debt. Why? Abd why not if he lives in Scotland?
My friend's daughter wants to do an MA, but her mum's a single parent on Old Moat. So she won't do it because she's scared of the debt. Under Labour. WHY?
I need an operation on my arm. I'll pay for it and choose time and place. On NHS I'd wait for months - same surgeon. WHY? Why can't Joe ordinary get it too under Labour?
Point is , Labour Supporter, that your party is supposed to be the party that looks after the less well off. And it lets them down time after time after time. I KNOW it does some good things.
But when it's being run by upper middle class barristers who send their sons to private school, then they don't begin to understand ordinary people. Because they don't know any ordinary bloody people.
I'm quite sure that you yourself have dedicated your life to ordinary people and good for you, but don't try kidding me that this Labour party shares your commitment, because it doesnt.
When even Private Equity bankers turn round and say the tax system is unfairly weighted towards the rich, as happened yesterday, then you KNOW that there is something sick in the Labour party.
And that is why I for one walked away from them in disgust. Iraq was the catalyst, but the prostitution of Labour values was the underlying reason. The time Blair sat down and got friendly with a warmongering corrupt neo-fascist US administration was for me and many others a moment of despairing disbelief.
Truth is that Labour decided years ago that it can only retain power by appeasing the middle classes and the rich , and it's been prepared to sacrifice the aspirations of the poor to do that. Under Labour, social mobility is getting harder and harder, ans underclasses are devloping. Admittedly that is a normal tendency inj a capitalist society, but Labour should be fighting against it, not pandering to it to hang on to power.
Remember,. Margaret Thatcher regards New Labour as her finest achievement.
