Why I'll NEVER Vote for Labour.

It simply boil down to : what has the Labour party ever done for me, a working class person?

Let me begin by saying I will not at the next election be voting Conservative either, because I think I've repaid whatever debt I owed them with subsequent votes.

What do I mean?

Well, the only Government that actually did anything FOR me was the Thatcher government. They helped introduce a government-funded training scheme that took in anyone that could pass the entrance exams and trained them to become computer operator or programmers. The ultimate in upward mobility. Kids with no qualifications catapulted into higher earning.

The BCC Threshold scheme aimed to correct the shortage of operators and programmers by taking anyone that proved an aptitude, irrespective of formal qualifications on a scheme that compressed the 2-year BTEC computing course into a mere 6 months intensive learning, combined with 2 6-week modules working in industry gaining experience.

Initially several hundreds applicants were whittled down to a mere couple dozen candidates on the course. Those on the course were then further split over time into those that could program and those that could not. Those that could not were eventually employed as operators and those that had an aptitude for programming stayed on the course for a few weeks more learning how to code in commercial computer languages. At the time the chosen language was COBOL.

Whilst on the course you were paid more than the normal rate for being unemployed, an incentive to stay on the course and learn. If you didn't you were dropped and lost your government-funded allowance. Harsh, but fair.

The one takeaway was that the government back then wanted to invest in the resources it had within the country. The answer to a skills shortage was to invest inwardly rather than todays answer which is to buy cheap labour in from abroad.

It's something I was eternally grateful for. The government directly giving me that opportunity which gave me a good standard of living which allowed me to bring up my kids at least to their teens well-fed and in a warm home.

Then Labour got in and ruined everything. All my life Labour have not contributed one single benefit upon me. Instead we got the politics of envy and a grasping nature, brining in fixed penalty notices and absolute offences there was no defence for. They made it harder for me to continue keeping myself out of the poverty I'd know as a single-parent child.

As a couple, myself and my wife didn't even benefit from in-work benefits, because the rules were too complicated. We lost more than we benefitted.

They brought in the IR35 HMRC rules that put paid to my computer contracting career. 

At the end of the tenure of the Labour party, I had gone from earning above average salary, to almost minimum wage. The opportunities that were available before Labour came into power were long gone by the time they had been replaced. 

I imagine my story wasn't unique. Just imagine how much effect that would have on the economy as higher wage earners stop earning those wages and stop paying those taxes and stop paying money into the economy.

Then we had the New Conservatives in power. And despite several attempts by the voters to give them the power to reverse some of the more devastating policies implemented by Blair and Brown, they instead doubled-down on the ruinous slide into globalism and the trip to the bottom and competition for the lowest global wage.

Despite that, I gave them one last chance with Boris at the helm. Along with others I gave him an 80-seat majority. Surely now he had the ability to stand up to EU malfeasance and stick it to the weaselly negotiators that tried to stich the UK up at every turn. 

But nope. Instantly the globalists turned on Boris hamstringing him. No doubt he did himself no favours, being led more by his penis than his brain. The pre-Carrie Boris that made London a safer and more vibrant place to be and against the odds replaced the burning Bendy-Busses with the New Routemaster was gone. Instead we had a bumbling buffoon that failed entirely to capitalise on his political majority. 

We got the globalist quick fixes of mass migration instead of inward investment, of ever lower wages, of control by supra-national organisations that did not have the interests of the UK at their core. 

The country went to shit under Cameron. It got worse under Theresa May's rudderless and ultimately pointless tenure and then we got Boris who just looked like a Rabbit caught in the headlamps of a large truck for most of his tenure. 

I find that Prince Harry and Boris have a lot in common: natural Conservatives that have been captured by the crotches of female extreme-left activists. 

But I digress. 

Basically the New post-Blair Conservatives have just continued the ruination of the country. Their interests are the interests of their Billionaire chums. There is not one thought for the poor of this country, not one idea that would provide a path to raise them from poverty, no policy that would give improved opportunities.

The death-knell was net-zero. Not the mass-migration that many point to. Net-Zero showed the country that the Conservatives had no idea about security, most importantly energy security. The security that keeps the lights on and our homes warm in winter.

Instead the Conservatives pushed ahead with policies that made energy more expensive and personal transport less likely. They didn't even attempt to solve the housing crisis. Even given a huge majority in Parliament. They didn't have a clue what to do.

And now we are supposed to lend our vote to Kier "I'm alright Jack" Starmer. A person that is so visibly far removed from the hardships that "traditional" Labour voters are facing that I'm sure a large percentage of previous Labour supporters are totally opposed to him.

Which brings me back to why I'll never vote for Labour: they have done nothing for me in their entire tenure in power. In fact they made my life patently worse. So fuck 'em, no vote from me.

Sadly I think that the New Conservatives have used up any loyalty I have to them. They have failed in 13 years to pull back from Blair and Brown's mess and it's affect on my lifestyle and the lifestyle of my kids.

They have failed to make the most of a massive majority in Parliament. They have squandered their time in power. It's hard to imagine a Conservative government making my life worse, but here we are. I'm worse off than I was under Blair and Brown. I'm paying more for things I should not be paying more for because of an ideology that has gripped all of the major parties.

I was just going to say that I'm not going to vote Labour because I know for a fact they will make my life worse. But I won't vote Tory either, because they've shown no signs of making it better.

So no, I will not be voting Labour. But I won't be voting Tory either. My vote is up for grabs, just who will provide the policies that I can vote for? 

Rumours of a New Conservative Party Become More Than Rumours.

 It seems there is more than just rumours of a new Conservative party rising. 

I've long said we need something to unite all of the Conservative factions in UK politics, essentially by a merger of the independent Conservative parties that have sprung up in the past decade.

But now there appears to be a party arising with some bit hitters behind it.

The rumours of the Farage/Johnson alliance and them starting yet another political party on the right may not be just rumours.

The day Boris resigned, the "National Conservatism Party" applied to the Electoral Commission to become a new political party. 

It remains to be seem if this is "The" Conservative party that Nigel Farage was talking about a few weeks ago when he let slip he was talking to some big names in the Conservative movement.

It will be interesting to see if Aaron Banks is er, Bankrolling this new party and if it's just yet another right wing party to split the right wing vote, or if it can garner enough support to draw members away from Reform, Respect, UKIP and the like.  Hopefully with big names it can gain gravitational force to pull members and candidates from the other parties. 

But it will have to move quickly. Although Farage has the ability to amass a following in double-quick time, just look at the Brexit party and how quickly it created a movement that posed a real threat to the actual Conservative party.

The only downside is the name: National Conservatism, sounds a lot like National Socialist.  But if the far left radicals are going to call you a Nazi for being moderate, you might as well do a bit of trolling at the same time eh? 

Start wearing black shirts? Get Hugo Boss to design some merch? The options for trolling could be endless. 

Maybe the party could have "We Care For the Majority" as it's motto? So that when some minority has a go they can say "We don't care about Minorities, we only care about the Majority".

Because one of the main failings of the political system over the past few decades is pandering to minorities to the extent they think they can rule over the majority. Well, it's about time the majority put minorities exactly where they should be: nowhere near government policy. 

Also no Marxist polices should be tolerated within the party. No identity politics, no gender ideology, everything should be based on sound scientific fact. No feelings allowed.

But anyway, the connection to Farage and Johnson is just mere speculation at the moment. But we'll see.

Bonfire of The Independent Thinkers.

 No matter what criticisms you have of Boris Johnson or Nicola Sturgeon, the thing they has was charisma. They also bucked the trend of bland, unthinking robotic politicians.

But, that bravura caught up with them eventually.

There was a point I defended Boris as originally the "PartyGate" scandal was essentially a bunch of workers having a drink at work. They were at work and it doesn't matter what you do if you're an essential worker whether you're there working, or having a sherry to toast a colleague as they leave for pastures new. 

The Covid rules allowed essential workers to be at work. Anything else is semantics and splitting hairs out of jealousy.  It appears that the dispute is what constitutes an essential worker, or a person that was allowed to be on the premises under the Covid rules. 

I was an essential worker and we had Pizza delivered the bosses ordered as a thank you for working through the pandemic. It wasn't much of a party, but it was a nice gesture as we stopped work for a bit and collectively took a break. We were sensible and distanced as much as we could., but still if you want to get extremely nit-picky there were occasions where it just wasn't possible. Carrying a two-person heavy load, for instance. 

In the end we chose to work as much as we could within the rules within reason and common sense. That's all you can do, otherwise you might as well say even essential workers should have gone home. Because at the end of the day if you make enough disparate o rules or make the rules especially vague, then you 're going to fall foul of one eventually.

It's an old Soviet tactic: keep watching someone for long enough and with enough rules around they'll eventually break a rule and you'll be able to prosecute.

In Boris' case I think this is what has happened. The knives have been out from the start and this is the thing they pinned on him. It's a bit like Al Capone: the only thing they eventually pinned on him was tax evasion, which was just enough to put him in jail, despite the heinous acts he masterminded over the years.

Sturgeon is a completely different case. There looks to be definite evidence of fraudulent activity. Enough to warrant charges and arrests. Whether she was directly involved is not yet proven, but it's not looking good for at least her husband and others in the SNP financial apparatus.

In both cases however, I get the feeling there was a concerted effort to remove them and replace them with other, less headstrong replacements. In the UK we eventually got Rishi because the establishment didn't like the people's choice of Liz Truss. Don't forget that Rishi didn't even win the confidence of his own party's members, let alone win a general election.

In Sturgeon's case I think she was led down a path that she followed which led to her demise. 

In both cases we got inferior replacements. Rishi the Billionaire accountant and that bloke in Scotland whose name I can't remember. 

Bland placeholders, no agenda, no plan. 

And that's what the globalists want: people they can influence and get results. Rishi will not rock the boat like Liz Truss and Boris did. They will not stir up trouble and keep pressing the independence button like Nicola Sturgeon did. The globalists right now want open borders, not fragmentation. They want seamless trading, not customs barriers. Just look how quickly the original Northern Ireland agreement was modified, when both sides realised they'd reduced profits for the globalists.

Just remember we used to be their employers, their masters. That appears to be no longer the case. I've been banging on for over a decade that modern governments have been corrupted and co-opted to serve the global corporations. They no longer serve the best interest of the people, the voters that vote them into power.