Occasional Scribbles

I’m sorry, I just cannot stay quiet about the recent Crewe by election and all the ludicrous nonsense that Gordon Brown has spouted since.

We are told that the man is intelligent but really, I don’t know if it’s that he has useless advisers or if maybe he isn’t so intelligent, (possibly both) .  Either way, the by election was a disaster from start to finish for him.  Asked if he would be out and about campaigning, Gordon said it was not traditional for a PM to go to by elections.  What planet was he living on.  It may be that he didn’t want to follow Mr Blair’s form by making an appearance against tradition on a previous one, but come on, he badly needed to be there.  All the signs pointed to a whitewash by the conservatives in part because of the disgusting campaign led by the Dunwoody Daughter, who, coming from a party that got rid of hereditary peers, nonetheless,  fully expected to inherit the seat vacated by the demise of her mother.  Gordon should have been there, if nothing else to reign in the wretched Dunwoody Daughter.

Thank goodness he wasn’t.  The vile campaign of Ms Dunwoody even made staunch labourites feel enbarassed at the crass ‘Toff’ line of campaigning which really fell flat on its face when the Dunwoody lot did not recognise the tribute paid by the conservatives to the area’s history by using an old Bentley to get around in.  This crass woman and her cronies failed to remember that the area was once the place where Bentley’s were manufactured.  Sickened by these people parading in top hat and tails (who incidentally did not know how to wear this thoroughly English form of dress) they voted for the Conservative party knowing that their ancestors were turning in their graves.

I needn’t mention all the stuff about Ms Dunwoody living in a bigger house than the Conservative candidate, though accusing him of living in a mansion or that she lives miles away from this constituency, or that she had a peer in her family, since we all know that.  What is interesting is Gordon Brown’s reaction to the whole matter.  Having done a round of interviews recently from Fern Britten to God knows who, naturally people want to ask him why he thinks his party has failed so spectacularly. And this is where it all becomes so wierd.  It’slike looking at a clone of Gordon, programmed only to respond with a certain number of platitudes.  Direct questions are answered with the same response regardless.  Asked about the 10p fiasco, whether he should stand down as leader or should have visited Crewe, all questions are met with a stock of answers that do not necesarily suit the questions.  ‘I am taking the right long term decisions, I am getting on with the job, millions out of poverty’ and on and on, ‘getting on with the job, listening to the people, of course people are worried about increases in the cost of their shopping, filling up their cars, price of a gallon’ etc etc. And that’s all he ever says, it goes on and on.  He will not answer questions put to him, just continues to spout the same stuff to all and sundry.  I dont think he’s in there.  He’s just a shell programmed to repeat stuff with his jaw working in that very strange way as if he’s chewing the cud.

And on top of all this, that ghastly Cherie Blair has released her embarassing book of ‘memoirs’ though ever the lawyer, she adds a disclaimer to the effect that her memory may be fallible)  she aptly summs up the type of people ‘New Labour’ are, self serving and an embarassment to the country.  I hope the Crewe by election is one of the nails in the coffin for this turncoat party.

The truth is, we are all being betrayed by all the parties.  The ‘New Labour’ party forgot their working class roots during the Blair years and the Conservatives met them in the middle. Now I think, as one MP said on Newsnight, Labout need to ditch the ‘New’ and get back to their roots and be a party for the Labour working class as they have always been until recently.  The conservatives on the other hand, should they get into government in 2012 have yet to learn the same lesson.  They too need to get back to their roots and stop trying to mimic ‘New Labour.  Real conservatives do not want an ‘hier to Blair’ and I feel a very similar moment will come for them in the near future. Stop cross-dressing up in each other’s clothing and stand up for the true values of each party.

Apologies, Just had to get that off my chest.