In the run up to the European and General Elections, Cambria Politico will be publishing occasional articles and opinion pieces about the reasons to vote FOR a particular political party. A great deal has been written about the negative ‘attack dog’ role of political blogs and, without giving up on our campaigns against corruption and loss of liberty, we want to provide a more balanced positive commentary.
We will be taking each party in turn and finding one good reason to vote for them, starting with NuLiebour oops! Labour. We will also be scoring them against appropriate parameters to put them in a historical and societal context.
Finding a good reason to vote FOR Labour at the present moment is difficult. However, the Labour Party/Movement has an honourable history, has accomplished many fine things, and has produced figures and personalities of international renown and historical significance. It has a proud and valued record of social and political achievements.
But that was then and this is now. Labour is now psychologically and socialogically an irrelevance. It has washed out on the tide of political thinking. In Monty Python terms, it is a Dead Parrot or on a par with the People’s Front of Judea or is it Judean People’s Front?
So where is the FOR reason to vote for them?
The brilliant SF author John Brunner, wrote a famous novel published in 1965 entitled ‘The Squares of the City’ (ISBN 0-345-27739-2). It is a sociological story of urban class warfare and political intrigue, taking place in the fictional South American capital city of Vados. It explores the idea of subliminal messages as political tools, and it is notable for having the structure of the famous 1892 chess game between Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin. In this story, society is ‘managed’ using city planning techniques. There are no actual villains and heroes it is mainly an exploration of how people can be controlled using bulldozers, urban planning and surveillance. The grim and powerful result is a true nightmare foreshadowing present and possible future conditions in Britain.
So how does this relate to a positive vote for Labour? Brunner, Orwell and other writers, like the late J.G.Ballard, tell us that a truly ‘efficient’ and well organised government is the greatest threat to freedom and human liberties of thought. So a vote for a useless, chaotic, bumbling, directionless government with real identifiable ‘faces’ attached to it is a vote for liberty and freedom from faceless efficient supra national oppression. Labour is classically inept and disorganised and thus truly worthy of your vote.
Forget the lies, the minor expenses corruption, the broken manifesto committments, Labour is infinitely preferable to a Brunner, Orwellian, Kafka-esque world of super efficient civil service and control by ‘faceless’ bureaucratic elites exemplified by the frightening Kinnockian European ideal.
Political X Factor Scoring
| PARAMETER | SCORE (out of 10) |
| Leadership | 1 |
| Grassroots Organisation | 5 |
| History | 9 |
| Corruption | 2 |
| X Factor / Charisma | 1 |
| Planet Earth Reality | 2 |
| Future Potential | 0 |
| Policies | 8 |
| Personalities | 3 |
| Financial Competence | 1 |
| Magic | 0 |
| Internet Awareness | 2 |
| Governmental Competence | 4 |
| Media Savvy | 5 |
TIDE OF HISTORY : AGAINST
Selected quotes:
“[This Labour government] is the most mendacious, dishonest, endemically corrupt, power-hungry, incompetent, illiberal f**king shower of shits that has ruled this country…”—Devil’s Kitchen
Times’ David Aaronovitch – similar wavelength?
We at Cambria Politico predicted last year that the ‘credit crunch’ would result in EU Convergence Funds being ‘subsumed’ or diverted into public sector coffers and never see the light of day in the real Welsh economy where it is urgently needed and where it was intended to be delivered. The following article by Wyn Pryce illustrates how this was done to Objective One funding and is being done now to Convergence Funds.
