Brown Helps BNP Go To Europe

I must confess to feeling rather depressed. I have just watched the Euro election results and seen not one but two BNP candidates get elected to represent Britain in Europe.

This is a sad day for our democracy. Their views are directly opposite to the greater majority of the electorate and I don’t believe that the majority of those who voted for them truly understand or agree with their policies. That can be said for all parties of course. Few people read the party manifestos before they vote and even when they do, our current Labour government demonstrates that they don’t seem to count for anything anyway.

The Labour party had shown that they only care about being elected so they can swan about playing at being important on the world stage. Sorry, that is Gordon Brown. I am sure a lot of Labour MP’s are embarrassed at what Labour has become. They don’t follow through with what they promised in their election manifesto and they don’t care much about democracy, freedom of the individual or the views of the electorate. One obvious example is the Privatization of the Post Office. Who wants that to happen? Nobody except Gordon Brown and Peter Mandleson, it seems. Oh and the Tories who will probably be the ones who help GB push it through against public sentiment. This could be a significant reason why the Tories haven’t done better in the European elections. They can’t be trusted with representing the public either.

We have a clear example of modern politics happening right now. Every sign the electorate can give to the Labour government is that they don’t want them and especially don’t want Gordon Brown. Gordon Brown’s response is to tell the public, in not so many words.  You can get stuffed, I got the job I always wanted and I don’t care how much it damages the country, I am staying here as long as I can.

So we shouldn’t be surprised that the BNP managed to get elected. The Tories hung on until they were so unpopular they were unelectable for 12 years and now the same thing is happening with Labour. With the current Labour government forcing their policies down our throats no matter how much we reject them.

We have a country where we are all made to feel like criminals and potential terrorists. Why else would the government insist on having the DNA of innocent people kept on record? You are a potential rapist, murderer or terrorist because you live in England but not, apparently if you live in Scotland. Whatever colour skin you have,  whatever religion you choose, you are made to feel like a second class citizen and the truth is that you are. Unless you are a bank executive in which case you get given millions of pounds for doing your job well, or badly, or if you are an MP and then you can claim for 1001 different things that ordinary people have to pay for out of their own, taxed, income.

We have all suffered from policies that only the labour government seems to want so it is no surprise that people vote for something they see as offering a different path. They saw the BNP in that role it seems and you can understand how people might well think that after such a dreadful Labour government they could hardly do any worse with the BNP.

We can only hope that after the expenses scandal and this electoral disaster for the Labour party which may well lead to Labour being out of office for the next decade if not destroyed forever, politicians of all parties will start to respond and give the public what they want instead of trying to force their own ideas onto the electorate supported by the party faithful. If not we could be seeing the start of a very dark period for this country.

Gordon Brown Takes Us Deeper Into Europe

The EU treaty has been agreed in Lisbon and all the politicians are busy congratulating each other for what they have achieved. What have they achieved? Goodness only knows. The text of the agreement is now available but it’s all gobbldygook that most of us would struggle to understand.

Can we trust our leaders to be doing the right thing for us? Of course we can’t. Governments have failed to get things right for centuries. They constantly, mistakenly take actions which they may genuinly believe are beneficial but time proves them wrong. How would having 27 different governments, each with their own special interests, be any better. Nobody knws what the consequenses of this treaty will be in the future.

There are some who look forward to the day when the EU is a country. There are others who  think it should be nothing more than a trading bloc.

After two world wars and hundreds of years of almost constant inter-european wars there can be no doubt that the EU has huge benefits for Europe and perhaps the world. Better communication and understanding between countries and more trade is good for us all but that doesn’t mean we and the EU need to get married.

The UK governments case for the treaty and for the denial of a referendum is that it isn’t needed. Given that we have no reason whatsoever to trust our government or believe a word they say, how can we rely on that? They have made very little attempt to explain what the treaty involves, how it is good for us or why it does not merit a referendum. Gordon Brown appears to be saying, “Trust Me, I know best”

It would be ironic if a Scottish Prime Minister who has never been elected by the English, the Welsh or The Northern Irish. A man who was selected by a small group of Labour Party MPs to become prime minister of Great Britain with the people of Great Britain having no say in it.  It would be ironic if he were to be seen by history as the man who gave away Great Britain to Europe and finally saw Britain defeated not by war and killing but by paper pushers, accountants and lawyers.

Gordon Brown seems to be claiming that he knows more than everybody else and all those who might critisise the treaty are wrong. History will decide whether he is a giant of international politics or another confused and mistaken politician. He may feel very smug now, he certainly looks it when you see him in Parliament. He looks as though he thinks all this politics stuf is a playground game but history is less concerned with soundbites, less impressed by careful answers in interviews. History will decide and let us hope that history takes the view that he was right. It will be too late by then if he was wrong.