With the local and European elections slowly creeping up on us, it would be naive to think that extreme parties like the BNP wont make steps toward powerful positions they shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near. We’ve had their bullshit leaflet through the post, we’ve had the Liberal Democrat leaflet, we’ve had the UKip leaflet, we’ve even had a Green leaflet. We haven’t though had a Labour leaflet.
Today, we received the Tory leaflet. Worryingly, it is addressed to me. Not to my parents, or my sister, or the household; it’s addressed to me. When one opens the leaflet, on the right hand side, we have a map of the U.K, and the East Midlands labelled and colour coded, just incase we in the East Midlands are at all wondering, where we live.
We then see on the left hand side, newspaper cut outs reminding us of Labour’s failings under Gordon Brown. Fair enough. There have been many.
It would help the Tories case though, if of the eight newspaper clippings, six of them were not from typical Right Winged Tory supporting Newspapers (three from The Express, two from the Daily Mail, and one from the Telegraph…the other two were from tabloids), but then I fully expect a Labour leaflet to produce clippings from…….actually, nowhere, not even the Guardian is throwing it’s lot in with Gordon Brown. I expect the Labour leaflet will merely read “We don’t have a fucking clue, seriously, no idea any more“.
Given the dodgy dealings of the owners of the Telegraph (Sir David and Sir Fred Barclay pulled their investment from the Island of Sark after voters decided not to support the candidates the brothers were backing, and so the economic stability of the island was rocked, and 100 people lost their jobs); and the positions that The Daily Mail has taken in the past (their unquestioning support for the British Union of Fascists comes to mind), they’re not the greatest of sources to be quoting. But we’ll let the Tories off, because the only other choice for them would be The Guardian, which is my paper of choice, and if it were a Tory paper, i’d have put it down long ago.
One of the cuttings, is from the Daily Mail, on the 2nd February 2009, which reads “Absurdity of Gordon Brown’s British Jobs for British workers pledge“. Indeed, it is an absurd statement for Mr Brown to have made. It was a vote winning pledge. Nothing more. It was, in short, a catastrophic mistake. The Tories are right to point out how ridiculous a statement it was. British Jobs for British Workers sounds like a BNP quote, and has no place in the global marketplace. The Tories used this in their leaflet to reminds us just how ridiculous it was. They certainly couldn’t be accused of hypocrisy, nope, not the Tories!
“Fighting for British jobs” – appears on the Conservative’s list of pledges on the right hand side of the leaflet. Along side “Working for British business” and “Defending British traditions“. I don’t think I need to say much more on this one. Certainly no hypocrisy though!!!!!
The leaflet gives no policy initiatives, no ideas on how to deal with the global recession, no green initiatives, no public service initiatives, nothing other than “We’ll stand up for Britain!!” and “Change“. The back of the leaflet reads “Conservatives have a clear plan for bringing down Labour’s debt and re-building a balanced economy“… it’d be nice if we knew what that plan was.
It’s nice to see that spin isn’t far from the Tories list of priorities, despite their “clear mission to mend our broken society” and their Obama-esque slogan “vote for change” (if you type “Vote for change” into Google, the top result is Barack Obama’s website – which is interesting, given how ideologically different the Tories are compared to Obama).
The leaflet then speaks about “tackling climate change”. It says “Conservatives played a key role in making new laws to cut carbon emissions and promote renewable energy“. The Tory MEP, is Roger Helmer. Roger Helmer MEP is a member of The “Freedom Association“. One look at their website, takes you to a blog entry, entitled “Why the European Union’s climate alarmism is both mistaken and dangerous”. In the article, it is reported that “Evidence is quite clearly emerging that man is not having the impact on the climate that the EU climate alarmists claim.“
Hypocrisy, nah not the Tories!
On the final page of the leaflet, they tell me just how they’ve been defending British Traditions (I had no idea British traditions were under such violent attacks… but apparently so, by those evil progressives)…. “You can still buy your fruit and vegetables in pounds and ounces thanks to Conservative MEPs“……. Oh thank god!!!! No more sleepless nights for me.
All that I’ve managed to salvage from this Conservative Party leaflet, is that The Daily Mail; The Telegraph and The Express don’t really like the Labour Party; they are committed to Climate Change, but are not committed to Climate Change; I can buy bananas in pounds still; and that the Tories are one step behind catchy slogans from their left wing counterparts over the Atlantic.
They certainly haven’t convinced me to switch to the dark side.
great representation of the conservative party!
many people are becoming disillusioned with the seemingly positive cameron campaign, but really its selfish, hollow and cruel lacking any positive substance.
Wow the hate and venom in your posts are amazing. The dark side? I hate to tell you boy, but you are already there. Perhaps you should educate yourself on facts instead of posting your venom. I have had the chance to peruse your site and all I see is conservative bashing with no facts to back it up. But that is typical, the liberals/socialist in the US use the same tactics. How is socialist medicine working in your country? Funny but you are one of the highest taxed countries in the world with very little to show for it. And Obama wants to follow the European model? . . . I think not!
Venom? I’m not Dick Cheney or Rush Limbaugh!!! Give me SOME credit. I haven’t shown any venom. I’ve shown my opposition and disagreement.
Socialised medicine is working fine thanks.
Of course it has it’s problems. One or two percent, out of the millions that use the NHS yearly, is nothing (unless you’re Fox News, or the Daily Mail obviously). It’s saved my dad after he had a heart attack, and my grandma after several strokes. It’s helped my friend recover when he was knocked down by a car.
Our Tory Party, has pledged to take care of the NHS. Would you say they’re wrong?
We still take care of our people. We don’t have this warped few of “freedom” that eats away at American Conservatism.
We became one of the highest taxed countries in the World, about two months ago. What do you expect to see in two months, during the worst recession in history?
As for telling me I had no evidence, I provided links, as evidence. And lastly, I never claimed to be impartial. I’m not a Conservative, I do not like Conservative values, and so of course i’m entitled to provide my opposition to that.
For the most part the financial crisis in the States were caused by the financial meltdown of the banks. This was caused by the liberals forcing banks to give loan to those less likely to pay them back through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Who was it that warned that this may cause a huge financial crisis? It sure wasn’t the liberal/socialist
http://veritasvincitprolibertate.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/bush-caused-the-financial-meltdown/
No, the crises (whilst certainly helped along by your suggestion) was caused by decades of further deregulation and a speculative economic consensus pushed by people like Alan Greenspan, making credit cheap by cutting interest rates and encouraging adjustable rate mortgages. The Bush Administration ignored Wall Street’s lacking oversight, ignored the Fed’s dodgy assumptions of easy credit, and ignored the fact that prices don’t just keep going up forever.
Congress itself, supporting the mortgage tax deduction is an incentive to buy above your means.
It is not as simple as blaming “liberals” or “conservatives” for the economic crises. The mess is a mixture of and overly complicated economy, and easily manipulated rules and (de)regulations.
Congress itself, supporting the mortgage tax deduction is an incentive to buy above your means.
Actually the mortgage has always been detectable. All interest was until the 80′s the liberals took that away too. The thing that you liberals don’t get is that heavy taxation does not benefit anybody. Taxing corporations makes even less sense. Corporations don’t pay taxes they just tack it on to the price of the product which hurts the poor even more. If the liberals/progressives truly meant what they claimed there would be only one tax and that would be the income tax. They would figure out the poverty level and anyone above twice the poverty level would pay a flat percentage across the board with no deductions and no loopholes. Deregulation had nothing to do with the problems. I know you are a big fan of big government but the free market works. Over regulation and taxation drives jobs overseas. Manufacturing in the US is all but dead because of it. We import everything because of it. I have some videos on my site that I wish you would watch. Pay particular attention to the ones done by Ayn Rand. She predicted exactly what is going on today fifty years ago! And she was born in Russia!
http://veritasvincitprolibertate.wordpress.com/constitutional-republic/
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Marshall,
Although your attempt to educate futile democracy is honorable, I believe it is “futile” to even attempt it.
When the crap hits the fan, they still won’t see what’s wrong with their ideals, they’ll blame it on something else.
Why? I see perfectly well the failings of some left of centre policies.
It is people like you, with free-market-failure-denial who refuse to acknowledge your ideology is fundamentally flawed.
No fundamental flaws, The flaws always were in government intervention. In the late 1800′s and early 1900′s the rich and powerful got the government to protect their interests. The free market works as long as there is no interference on behalf of anyone. Again watch the videos with Ayn Rand.