I posted this today on Letters from a Tory regarding Labour’s five pledges:
The problem with this post-card looking thing (and you know this is going to get stuffed through your letterbox, don’t you? Just look at the aspect ratio!) is that the 5 problems raised are all attributable to both Labour’s last 13 years and the campaign/manifesto promises they broke in the last 3 elections.
For example:
1) SECURE THE RECOVERY
Is just funny because the largest threat to our recovery, and a good reason why we were the last major nation out of recession, has been Labour’s fondness of debt. Both the £0.8tn on the books and the few billion of PFI off the books make lenders very nervous about lending us money or treating us as anything but a larger and better armed Greece.
2) RAISE FAMILY LIVING STANDARDS
With unemployment rates oddly tame, the reality is that large numbers of people have seen their hours or salaries cut in real terms. Way to go!
3) BUILD A HIGH TECH ECONOMY
By taxing telephones, guaranteeing 2mb broadband to everyone when, today, I get laughed at by a client in Japan because I get 12mb downstream whereas he gets 100GB or by saddling ISPs with draconian data retention requirements and by becoming the Recording Industry’s pet policeman? HAHAHAH. ROFLLMAO, as the net savy would say before saying calmly ‘proof or STFU!’.
4) PROTECT FRONTLINE SERVICES
Like street football co-ordinators? Those plastic policemen with no powers you’ve used to free up actual police officers from the tedium of actual crime fighting to fill out your oh-so-important paperwork? Or do you mean the doctors you now pay almost double for almost half the work at a time when patients risk their life on a semi-incompetent out of hours import?
5) STRENGTHEN FAIRNESS IN COMMUNITIES
Was it not weakened over the last 13 years? By you? Sometimes deliberately, in the case of vast immigration, for the purpose of creating a client-base of multicultural immigrants who will vote for you and the Tories daren’t criticise lest you call them racist?
And if it wasn’t you, and it was the Tories, why are you only looking at this so-important-we-campaign-on-it issue now?
Speaking of which, why should we believe you promises of ATV when you promised PR in 1997? Or Lords reform, for that matter?
So hmmm…
