On 7 May the British electorate will be making the choice
of what kind of nation they want ours to be. One road runs to a low wage low
skill economy of job insecurity, continued austerity and more cuts to create a
bare bones state.The other leads to an attempt to get back to growth, boost demand
by more spending raise pay and get back as near as we can to full employment.
That's the inevitable-and desirable difference between
the party of wealth and the classes and
the party of the masses. Sadly it's well disguised. Labour has toned down it's
policies, though not hopefully it's principles to appear respectable and not to
frighten the middle classes-though as I pointed out yesterday- they are
frightened because they're as much threatened by big money and big business as
workers. Both parties set out to appeal to business whose lethargy is a national
problem
Both spout neo-Liberal rubbish so that as the Tories
commit more and more enormities they can always argue that Labour did it first.
Private sector in the health service?-we did it. PFI millstones? We handed them
out everywhere. Tax cuts and tough on benefits? We did both. Even worse we're
both making the deficit the major issue, both promising to reduce it and to
avoid borrowing (which is in fact inevitable) and both promising to balance the
budget.Which is daft in a recession.
Result? Labour's alternative is lost sight of and our
failing main parties both look the same to a jaundiced electorate A large
section of the electorate is fed up of both of them because both have destroyed
their world.They're fed up of politics too particularly after the expenses
scandal. The choice is between a lesser and a greater dose of misery when what
the people want is HOPE. Is it too late for Syriza to put up candidates?
No comments:
Post a Comment