Thought we got rid of New Labour and the 3 amigos?

In 2010 we finally drew a line under New Labour.  In 1997 Blair had promised a new style of Government, a people’s Government with more openness.  His right hand man, Gordon Brown, was resolute on confining ‘boom and bust’ to room 101.

After Thatcher I suppose anything would have been a relief, but New Labour would transform Government into the future.

The honeymoon was a short one.  New words crept into our daily vocabulary.  We had grown accustomed to politicians being economical with the truth but now we had entered an ‘Orwellian’ world of spin.  Unelected characters such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson were hugely influential characters.  They were the masters of deception.  They were the dark forces walking the corridors of power.  This was not Blair’s Government, this was Armando Iannucci’s Government and Malcolm Tucker was pulling the strings.

We witnessed a new and very sinister relationship forming between George Bush and Tony ‘Blair boy’ Blair.  Were we ‘officially’ the 51st State?

Clause 4 was an early casualty.  The new modern wording from it’s adoption in 1995 looked impressive and elevated Blair as an innovator and moderniser.  I saw the reworked clause 4 as a statement of everything and a statement of nothing.  New Labour progressed to Government but it left something behind, its principles.  Read the words of clause 4 and try to reconcile that with the war in Iraq? – no! I couldn’t either.  New Labour had become a media machine, a circus that courted popularity at any cost, with a Chancellor in Brown who stopped at nothing to bankroll the whole affair.

Looking back now over New Labour’s reign, we see just how much we, the public, were duped for more than a decade.

Boom and bust got worse, New Labour were totally in awe of the City of London and curtailed the FSA to ensure the bankers had free reign to cast their magic – sometimes referred to as becoming vulgarly rich at our expense.

The social divide widened and the magnetism of London and the South East sucked the fluid out of Scotland and the North of England.

Despite the protests of many millions in the UK and 3 million citizens on the streets of the UK Blair took us  into an illegal war in Iraq, alongside his best buddy, George W Bush.  Iraq and the whole world have been paying a huge price for that piece of stupidity ever since and I doubt I will see a resolution in my lifetime.  Of course, almost a million Iraqi citizens won’t be seeing anything in their life time because they were collateral damage.  Blair proved to the world that he, himself, was a weapon of mass destruction.  { …a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few, … extraction from clause 4 } … the hypocrisy of it?

Perhaps we should not have been too surprised when the banking crisis exploded on to the scene.  Despite being in it up to his armpits, Gordon Brown was hailed as some sort of Messiah who saved the world’s economy.  His advice amounted to nothing more than ‘we all need to talk’.  I say, ‘ who smelt it, dealt it’.  The fox was in charge of the chicken run!

Despite all the spin, it was clear the world’s economy and especially the banks were in free-fall.

We had many more new words to deal with.  ‘Toxic debt’, ‘sub-prime mortgage’ were two such euphemisms that horrified me.  They sanitised the more usual  expression; cheating, lying, thieving, robbing b*stards – which you must admit has a certain ring to it.

We were in the Blair, Brown and Darling years – there was no mistaking.  If ever their was a real heavyweight battle it was Brown v Darling to see who did the most damage to the UK’s economy – any they were relentless.  Let’s call it a draw and hold them both to account for selling off 400 tons of the UK’s gold to flatten the gold market and bail out banks such as JP Morgan who had come up around £18 million light.  That exercise cost us about £20 Billion in real gold value.  Not to be outdone, they targeted the pensions industry who had put plenty aside as good management.  Removing the tax relief from their investments netted New Labour around £11 Billion per year and has gone on to net over £118 Billion and rising annually – sorry, I forgot to mention the UK pensioners, many of whom lost 75 – 80% of their pension.  [read about it]

In the midst of all this economic turmoil we learned another term, ‘quantitative easy’.  Strictly speaking it is not printing money, it is electronically printing money!  They set up a financial trail that quickly becomes so complex and convoluted that in no time you lose sight of the fact that you started with nothing.

Don’t let us forget that after the 2010 general election we had a lot of new faces in Parliament.  That would normally be a good thing, to clear out the cobwebs.  However, it was not a good thing, it was a great thing, when you consider the number of MP in jail, stepped down, retreated into the shadows or generally melted away from the public gaze – why – one reason, they had their big snouts in the public trough and they got rumbled.

During the referendum, while a country and it’s people become historians and political researchers we discover such things as Blair and Brown ‘partitioned’ 6000 square miles of North Sea waters representing 15% of the North Sea oil and gas reserves – why?

OK, that’s enough of a rant.  I could go on.  I could even have gone through this in some form of chronological order but I thought I would just let it spew out.  Did we just go through the most corrupt and damaging decade in UK history or was this a triumph of the media, especially social media that the public finally caught up with the scum floating on the surface of public life; only to discover they were standing on the shoulders of all the other scum.

Fortunately, 2010 drew a line under this to some extent.  New Labour were kicked out unceremoniously.  Gordon Brown entered the records as the UK’s worst and most unpopular Prime Minister ever (stupid wummin’) and Alistair Darling joined the fold of our many failed Chancellors who presided over, arguable the UK’s worst financial crisis.

It can’t have escaped your notice that neither of the 3 amigo has received any form of recognition, not as much as an MBE.  Isn’t that strange?  I wonder if they have given up trying??

JUST AS I THOUGHT I COULD BREATH A SIGH OF RELIEF – A TRIPLE WHAMMY

1. Serious trouble breaks out in Iraq with the Iraqi Syrian Islamic State or ISIS.  I doubt if there ever was peace there since we interfered.  We certainly left the country with absolutely nothing to build on.  We may have won the war, but we lost the peace, royaly – probably forever.

But who comes forward with a strategy for Iraq that involves renewed military action to deal with ISIS, that beloved Middle East Peace Envy, (now please, stop all that laughing) Mr Tony Blair.  You could not make this up!

2.  In the midst of Scotland’s referendum the Westminster psychological warfare machine and Better Together fear merchants inform Scots that their pensions are in serious jeopardy in an independent Scotland.

And who do they drag out and dust down as the pension Guru?  Gordon Brown.  Gordon Brown was to pensions what Lord Beeching was to the railways.  Brown decimated the pensions industry  and condemned vast numbers of British pensioners to a life of poverty so he could get himself another tax ‘fix’ and court ‘popularity’, Ugh!

3.  Again, In the midst of Scotland’s referendum the Westminster psychological warfare machine, GO GO George Osborne and the Better Together fear merchants inform Scots that an Independent Scotland will not be allowed, by them, to share their own currency.

And who gets to tell us all about it – Alistair Darling – the failed ex-Chancellor comes out and tries to pin down Alex Salmond on his plans for a Scottish currency when he, Darling, all but wiped out our currency when in office and sent us all back into the dark ages.  If the US Federal Reserve had not bailed us out to the tune of around £1.3 Trillion every man, woman and child in this country would have been bankrupt.  And despite that Westminster are still £1.6 – £1.7 Trillion in total debt.  …. and Darling accuses Alex Salmond of not having a plan B?

IF THIS WAS NOT SO SERIOUS, IT WOULD BE HILARIOUS.

Perhaps, in a hundred years, schoolkids will learn about this and scream with laughter at the absolute bare affrontery of these 3 amigos.