Hartlepool and Labour: A Crisis of Ideology, Not Leadership.

 So Hartlepool is waking up to being represented by a Conservative MP for the first time in 50 years.

This should put a massive shockwave through the Labour party and knock some sense into them. But from what I'm hearing, that's not the case. The hard left are blaming Kier Starmer for the loss of the seat without one iota of introspection. 

The problem isn't Kier Starmer per-se (although he has that Blairesque air about him: instant dislike for many). 

The main problem for the Labour party are the people beneath Keir and their ideology, the rabidly lefty loons that have not idea how hated their policies are by the working class. In fact the working class would rather vote Conservative than Labour at this point in time, rather kill their first born than vote Labour.

The reality is that the Conservatives (to the disdain of traditional Tories) have occupied the centre-left of politics. Unfortunately, Labour from their far, far left position still see the Tories as far-right. Any sane person can see the reality, but Labour are failing to see it. The far-left loonies will also do their damndest to prevent any move of Labour policy towards the Tories. QED they are F**ked.

The majority of the Labour party neither understands the working class it is purported to represent, nor does it espouse policies that resonate with them. Labour have lost the working class vote. I put "working" in italics to emphasise the problem.

If you are working, paying taxes and trying to make something of yourself, then the Labour party have nothing to offer you. Except higher taxes, mad policies, more intrusion into your life, etc.

They do however have lots to offer the non-working class, like illegal immigrants and those out of work on benefits it seems from their many interviews. They have lots of policies for the pink or blue-haired, lip-pierced university types. They have lots of policies for minorities (there's a clue there why you keep losing).

They also have lots of "Woke" policies that should really stay on University campuses rather than be Government policy. More intrusion into your private affairs, the inability to have free discussion, the cancel culture that pervades the left, the inability to debate, the inability to see inequality, the list goes on.

The ideology that cannot debate with anyone that votes Conservative. The ideology that cannot understand why a working class person would do such a thing. The ideology that cuts them off . The ideology that cannot change. The ideology that hates Britain. The ideology that hates British people. 

If you want change, real change Jess, if you want Labour in power Jess, then resign. Because you, your ideology and people in the Labour party with the same ideology are the problem. 

Yes, the working class want the Labour party to change, but you are not the change they want.

A Letter to Jess Phillips: If You want Change And Labour in power, Then Resign.

 Dear Jess Phillips,

I have heard you on the Radio today saying the vote by the people of Hartlepool to elect a Conservative MP is a signal that they want the Labour party to change.

That is true, but the change you want to bring about is not the change the people of Hartlepool or the majority of the Northern Working class (that are walking away from Labour in droves) want.

You, Jess, are the problem. Although Kier Starmer is a throwback to the Blair era and therefore pretty unelectable the main problem is the people underneath him. The ideology that pervades the Labour party, the  far, far left ideology is the problem.

In fact Jess, here's a challenge for you: 

Give me one Labour policy that benefits the working class in a significant way. Something that will drastically improve their lives for the better.

I bet you can't.

Subsidising Wages: Continuing Labour Party Plan to Sunsidise Big Corporations.

It's been reported that Labour Leadership hopeful Jess Phillips' latest plan in her bid to win is to promote free childcare for all.

Honourable as that is, you have to ask a few questions. The first is why do we need it and the second is who is going to pay for it?

The first reason is the fall in effective wages over the past 40 years or so. It seems that hand-in-glove with feminism, wages have depressed. Women have fought for the right to have equal rights to jobs and pay, but with that influx of labour into the market, wages have depressed. After all, the more people you have able to do a particular job, the less you can pay for it. It's supply and demand.

After all, you don't think big corporations would pay previous wage levels if they could start to reduce wages and see where people stop applying. Nope, a larger workforce means more people able to do the work and lower wages as a result.

Such has been the depression in wages that it's pretty rare one person in a couple can earn enough to run a family and for the other person to stay at home and do all the childcare stuff. I've been a house husband in the past, so I make no remarks on which member of the family works and which does the childcare.

So, wages become depressed so both parents have to work. The Blair government then introduced tax credits for families because wages had become so depressed families with both parents working couldn't raise a family.

Let's be clear about this: tax credits is taking money from people without children and giving it to people with families, to bolster wages supressed by big corporations. In effect subsidising the big corporation's wage bills at the taxpayer's expense.

So, we start importing even more workers from Europe and wages became even more depressed. Guess what? Now Labour are talking about providing free childcare. I assume funded by the taxpayer again. So people without kids have to subsidise those with kids so they can go out and earn wages depressed by big business that have also to be subsidised by the tax payer.

Where does it stop? We're already paying for people not to work (benefits), we're paying to top up the wages of people with families (tax credits) and now Jess Phillips wants us to pay for childcare too?

Why can't we flip the coin and start to put in place a regime where big corporations have to pay decent wages? Why can't we stop importing cheap labour? Why can't we start moving tax credits over to corporation tax funding, instead of from general (i.e. mainly income tax) funding?
Why can't we aim instead to limit the supply of labour and thereby increase wages?

I assume the answer would be the big corporations would go elsewhere. Well, let them. But each big corporation that leaves would find themselves the subject of big tariffs if they tried to import goods instead. And the government would let them know this before they left.

Instead of Labour rushing to the bottom, how's about trying to improve the quality of labour and the level of wages in this country.

With Jess Phillips' childcare policy aiding big corporations, you could almost call her policy Thatcherite....