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[Jul. 30th, 2009|08:34 pm] |
so, ive just finshed reading a snippit about labour, from an old style labourit, and i have to say, its supured me, as well as a looong talk on everything with vye (Who is awsom) on the train home on sunday.
when im talking poltics with amaricans, witch is, insdently, the people i most enjoy talking poltics with, for resons i shall elbrate on, when i want to prove goverment can and has done good i point back to the 1945 to 1951 labour goverment. theres a good reson for this. off the top of my head, i can think of no goverment witch has done so much to help so meny in such a diffcult time. under this goverment, the NHS was founded, slumes cleared, the scars of war healed, and the A bomb, witch was ours by right (the treatys witch bound the amaircan and britsh bomb projects together stated spficly britan would have access to the plans. as it stood, britan got shut out by the US after the dropping of the bomb, and we had to go it alone). there are almost certenly meny other things that, if i could be bothered to look up, i would and could point to. the 1945-1951 goverment had ideals, stuck to them, and got things done
flash forward 60 years. what dose labour stand for? sertenly not for the comman people. labour finds the unions bagage. the middle classes? well, prahapse, but the middle classes is fairly veried. mabby thats why the daily fail is the paper of choice when choseing polcy. the truth is, half my lives been under conservitves, the other half labour. the last ten years, when ive becomes polticly active and aware, labours been it. thayve had carta blanch to do what thay want. thay could writ large there ideals.
and ive no idea what those ideals posbly are. what do PFIs represnet? i mean, appart from a bloody fesco? and attampt by labour to not tell things as thay are (PFIs are "off sheet" meaning that even tho the goverment may owe money on them, it dosent show up, posstive when trying to seem as if your staying inside some kind of, i dont know, tresure borowing target of some sort...humm). what about the schooling reforms? well, thay mean that labour wants people to have beter eduction, but hell if i can make heads or tails of it. sept its all bound up by the captalist is beter ideal.
and the consertives, arnt much diffrent thay try to paint them selfs as diffrent, but the hell if i can tell what it is. sept that there expences scandled involved motes rather then tree cutting (the lib dems involved biskets, i recorn you can see the class devied from the expenses scandle).
i would ague that the lib dems are diffrent, seeing as how, if i rember correctly from when i was watching bbc parlement (shut up) thay were one of the primery proponts of re-publising the defulted natinal express line, and have taken simmler lines along other things, but the fact of the matter is that people feel thay wont get voted in, so thay wont (if people feel like this, of corse thay wont get voted in)
this new, bland kind of poltics is carecterised not by debates over polcy, but by exactly this kind of petty expences scandle thing, and other kinds of sleeze. the consertives and labour sit so close together thay have to paint eachother as dirty becous theres practcly no diffrence between them. http://www.labourhome.org/forum/?p=6539 a link of reletiveness
this brings me to why i enjoy talking to amaricans about poltics (or, more correctly, why i like talking to anyone about amarican issues). in britan, were going backwards almost. NHS reforms focus on privtising more and more services inside the hosptials. like cleaning. man, how well has that gone. and no one (Sept private eye, see eye passim-ed) seems to notice, care, or stand up for it.
by contrast, amarican poltics are still fighting the big, idolgical battles. will helth care in the US senete by a big dispointment? ive little doubt, the public option was tame, and the nutering of its worse, but there are people out there, fighting to make a diffrence. when i arge with amaricans over it (some times bitterly, sometimes agist people who i know are beyond help (someone once earned my ear by dissing scince as a whole, for witch i will not stand)) its about something important. something big. something useful. who is there to ague with about PFIs. its not even up for debate, and if it is, it dosent get an airing.
poltics in the uk is flavourless, domainted by petty scandless and sound bites. poltics has sceased to stand for anything. even margret thatcher stood for something, much as i hate her. indeed, i can hate her becous she did stand for something. i find what she stood for to be dispicble and disgusting. but she stood for something.
thats the reson people dont vote. theres no party that stands for anything. theres apthy becous what is the diffrence between labour and the consevitives? theres hardly any. and when your looking at a vote between party A and the A party, its easy to see why people dont vote.
sorry for the long rant, but yea. |
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