Dear PM this is 2010 not 1974!!
As a 21 year old bank clerk in Alperton, near Wembley,in 1974, I was asked to count votes in the Brent East constituency at the first general election held that year.I found the atmosphere bery intimidating. The lasting memory was of some bery nasty personal attacks on the Tory candidate, by Labour party members and officials, which gave me the opinion, that whatever the policies Labour adopt, there is always a “fight dirty” approach at General Election time. 1974 was a time when there was a hung parliament, and I regretted going against my instincts and for the only time ever, I voted for the Liberals.
So, why do I raise this now? Having seen Gordon Brown roll out the only arguments that LABOUR can muster, in a hideous attempt to cover up their 13 years of bungling failures: namely have a go about Lord Ashcroft, Inheritance Taxm and the spurious accusation that the Tories will cut public sector jobs in the NHS, police and schools. Labour also keep telling lies about what David Cameron is supposed to have said.
Even worse was that awful Party Political Broadcast by Eddie Izzard, who I had grown to admire for his charity 43 marathons. OK he was acting out a script, but it was so full of bitterness, malicious insinuations and untruths,that were quite frankly an insult to the intelligence of people in the UK. Scaremongering about a return to the Thatcher years, by the “children of Thatcher” , quote,is not the way to win the hearts and minds of the people LABOUR need to keep them in power.Why can Labour not accept the world is not the same as the bad old days of 1974?? There were only just computers in banks,there were no mobile phones, no internet. There was no Twitter or Facebook and we had three TV channels. LABOUR’s campaign is panning out to be that of the gutter, borne out if desperation and lack of ideas on how to spin even more complex tissues of lies and illusion. Gordon Brown is simply not credible, and I wonder if his lackies really believe the rubbish they wheel out on Newsnight.
I have said it before. When will our politicians be honest? I believe Nick Clegg and David Cameron are far more honest than Gordon’s Gang. Peter Mandelson talks about “the veneer behind the veneer” when speaking about the Tories, but where is “the substance” he talks about from Labour?? Labour are the party of empty broken pledges, always have been always will be.
