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‘The major problem, one of the major problems, for there are several, with governing people is that of who you get to do it. Or, rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well known and much lamented fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.’ - Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hickers Guide to the Galaxy
Few people realised in 1997 what was to come in Great Britain with the landslide victory of New Labour; it was the end of a tired and sleeze ridden government under the Conservatives, but the nation was about to be assaulted by a radical, extreme and culture changing regime that would overturn norms accepted over centuries. This did not happen in a vacuum, the way had been prepared over many years, nothing like this suddenly happens. The seeds of these changes had been planted, watered and were beginning to bear fruit long before Tony Blair celebrated his victory in May of 1997. But there were those who understood the significance of Tony Blair and his new government. Peter Hitchens, the conservative and God fearing brother of Christopher Hitchens, the radical atheist who made his home in America, wrote a book called ‘The Abolition of Britain.’ He knew that behind New Labour was a truly dark spirit that was committed to dismantling the heritage of this nation in the name of ‘progress.’ The ‘frog being boiled in hot water’ picture applies here. Our nation is now almost unrecognisable from the one that many of us grew up in.
Essentially what New Labour have done is to accelerate the destruction of the birthright of this nation for a mess of pottage, and they progressed far down this road after thirteen years. I do not believe that New Labour is made up of people who set out to destroy the nation, it is not populated by evil men and women who have deliberately thought and plotted to cause harm to our society, yet this is the rub. You can genuinely have a vision for society, to work for a better and fairer society, to overcome oppression and protect the weak, the poor and the downtrodden, yet be totally misguided, deceived and deluded in the methods by which you wish to achieve those ends.
Laudable though the aims may be of many Labour party members, the driving force behind their agenda is to control everything, what you do, what you say, and even what you think. Make no mistake the force behind their strategy was truly sinister. It represented encroaching darkness. Tony Blair let the cat out of the bag when he made a speech at the Labour Party Conference in 1999. When he talked of freedom I believe he was deceived, the only freedom New Labour has brought is the freedom to oppress; he said:
‘And New Labour, confident at having modernised itself, now the new progressive force in British politics which can modernise the nation, sweep away those forces of conservatism to set the people free.’
This spirit is of the same colour as that which drives the EU, a very good reason why Great Britain almost inevitably faces a clash with that body in the not too distant future. Consequently it is a very unhealthy vision of society, not clearly recognising the limits of government and where it is at the very least impertinent and at the worst evil to stray into.
Their attack on our freedoms has possibly been the most disturbing feature of their government. They have played fast and loose with our heritage and consequently our moral and spiritual authority as a nation is much diminished.
Mercifully New Labour were ousted from office in May, 2010 which gives the country some breathing space and the opportunity to redress the balance that has been lost under the last government. The new government are still too much under the sway of political correctness, but at least have more of a feeling for freedom and individual responsibility especially as the Conservative party are the senior partner. Sadly recent events indicate that David Cameron may be just another interregnum before we get a real conservative leader, if such a thing is still possible.