Date: 29 March 2009 19:49:59
Most of you will be to young, or to foreign, to remember the last years of the Major government. Even for many Conservative supporters we knew that, how ever wrong it could be, we had to lose the election. Our party had lost its way and was engulfed by scandal after scandal.
What made it worse was the opposition we making political capital of what a bunch of self-interested, money grabbing and self obsessed non entities were had in the party. Even the "Grey Man" himself was recognised for being a less than enspiring leader.
So they got their butts kicked and were replaced by New Labour - a better choice of name would have been Conservative-lite. Bliar came into office promising a new style of politics without the sleeze that had gone before. Britain would be a new country built on ethical policies and inclusive policies that would herald a new dawn. WE'd be financially and morally better off than ever before.
What we got was a liar as PM, the same old policies that let accountants, bankers and tax avoiders do whatever they wanted. With the Private Finance Initiative we had privitisation and unaccounted for debt spending. We'd enter two conflicts that no one understood and are still going on today.
No we have a PM who, like Major, makes his predecessor look like a political messiah. As bad as Bliar was at least he had a personality. The one we have today has the personality of a dead fish - apologies to dead fish everywhere.
Recently he has been pedaling this vision of him as the Saviour of The World. He has all the answers to the current financial crisis that he, though he won't admit, has done as much as others to create. Remember how he's been telling us that where he has led all others are following and copying his policies.
Now, with this week's G20 meeting looming, we find that every major country is set to refuse his notion of a new fiscal stimulus. Berlin have already leaked the final press release submitted by the Great Saviour. They France, Spain and most other countries say that this is the wrong thing to do.
Warren Buffet the current financial guru has said that the UK are likely to end up needing a bail-out from the Interantional Monetary Fund to survive. For those who remember the last Labour government in the mid to late 70's will remember the sight of our Chancellor, Dennis Healy, going cap in hand to the IMF for loan after loan.
This was not a great time for Britain's standing in the world. It took Thatcher to restore pride in Britain. No matter what you think of her, at least she achieved that.
Now we have a leader whose own ego will not allow him to see that he is destroying our country and selling future generations into servitude to pay off his borrowing - fiscal prudency, my a***? Even the Governor of the Bank of England has said that the country can't afford to borrow more. For a srving Governor to come out against government policy is almost unheard of.