From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
     It means Blair and his front bench are box-office poison for the first   
   time and this is where the wheels start to come off Thatcho-Socialism: the   
   Labour backbenchers and organisers and members want Blair to go and go   
   quick - many local-level activists refused to campaign for the party. The   
   thing that's kept Labour in power at national and local level is that lots   
   of people can get their hands on cash easily and the economy has beeb in   
   generally good shape.   
      The theorists behind New Labour learned this important lesson from the   
   Thatcher years (we're in the 26th year of the 1980s): as long as there's   
   lots of ready cash swilling about and the illusion of lots of cash swilling   
   about then you can get away with anything: with Thatcher it was sheer   
   spivvery; with New Labour it was was a mix of spivvery and obdurate Marxoid   
   thought. Now the chickens are coming home to roost: because of its dogma,   
   the Labour Party doesn't give two hoots about two things that are now   
   encroaching the lives of ordinary people: immigration and crime.   
      If immigration and multiculturalism came up in polite conversation two   
   years ago it was still very much vague, generously angry 'let people have a   
   chance' and 'why not? Are you a racist?' etc Now it's cautious criticism and   
   MC is out of fashion - the policies and institutions are not changing - if   
   anything they are more committed. Much further down the trough, in places   
   like Barking and Dagenham and poor areas up north - the places where the   
   decisions of the Leftish Elites come home to roost - the resentment and   
   anger is massive: they know they've been betrayed. If the BNP wasn't so   
   shambolic and moronic and had fielded more candidates, I suspect they would   
   have made bigger gains in more surprising locations. There is a rift opening   
   between the governing and mandarin classes (be they lab, lib or con) and the   
   ordinary people that is bigger than ever before: they have abdicated reason   
   and nerve on a lot of things that mean absolutely nothing to them and an   
   awful lot to the voter, and in doing so have created a blind spot that the   
   fascists know they can fill.   
      
     That Britain *needs*  unrestricted mass immigration is a demonstrable lie;   
   the truth is that it *wants* cheap labour (and a ready-made electorate that   
   has no pre-political loyalty to the territorial jurisdiction known as   
   Britain) and sod the consequences. Well, the consequences are happening now.   
      
   Notwithstanding the BBC's post-Hutton cravenness (and well-known affection)   
   for the Labour Party, the government's magic mantra of 'unprecendented   
   public spending levels' is becoming ineffective in the public discourse: for   
   the gains and improvements - and there have been some - have come with huge   
   problems and massive waste. The obligatory paper shuffling and box-ticking   
   membrane of socialism has grown to monstrous proportions in the NHS; again,   
   all was well until the money meter started to go down and cuts hit the   
   workers before they hit the bureacrats: big mistake. In this week's 'The   
   Socialist', an amusing newspaper published by the Socialist Party, the   
   editorial calls for the unions to stop funding the Labour Party and it makes   
   perfect sense if you're a real lefty: this government's in funding trouble,   
   making redunancies in the public sector and they've spent a heck of a lot of   
   money on a damn fool war.   
     Outside the Loony Left, British people are dimly recalling that the first   
   principles of government are making sure that the citizen can go about his   
   business without fear of attack, that law and order is observed and the   
   borders of the country are secure: with Project Blair, those principles have   
   been turned on their head: thousands of hours of parliamentary time to ban   
   fox-hunting and smoking in pubs: meanwhile gun and knife crime soars   
   immigration increases massively and the police reprimand people who they   
   believe may be, for example 'homophobic' or guilty of making comments that   
   could be construed as racist. This is not an exaggeration: last week a   
   Chief-Constable from Wales travelled to London to get a statement from the   
   Prime Minister himself over the allegation that Blair shouted '..the fucking   
   Welsh' at his television set four years ago. In the background, the Iraq War   
   is a weeping sore.   
     Meanwhile, the Deputy Prime Minister, a man who everyone knows is,   
   notwithstanding his impressive educational achievements, a buffoon (see how   
   someone in his own office has sabotaged him: google 'fuckwit'), who   
   righteously berated the tory govt of 92-6 for its sleaze and hypocrisy, is   
   now behaving like one of them. People know a pig in a bowler hat when they   
   see one. Charles Clarke, who was Home Secretary when a massive scandal   
   revealing the shambolic and incompetent state of the Immigration and   
   Probation Services, claimed he'd offered his resignation to the Prime   
   Minister and had it refused. This was obvious spin - and playing for time:   
   to see if they could get away with it at the polls - because the day after   
   Labour's drubbing Blair sacked him. There is a general feeling in working   
   class and middle England is that the country has gone to the dogs and   
   moreover is becoming 'a foreign country': the ipod-wearing young grad class   
   don't know or care: they don't think or talk about politics or if they do it   
   tends to be windy spiels about the new religion of environmentalism; which   
   doesn't, funnily enough, stop them jumping on Easy Jet to Thailand or   
   hoovering up that line of cocaine that keeps Central America locked down   
   under robber barons.   
      
     Presiding over all this is Blair and he doesn't want to come off the pool   
   table. The Party knows that the longer he stays the more there's a chance of   
   bloody disaster in the next general election - it's the Last Days of   
   Thatcher all over again: the MPs see him now as dead weight, a liability to   
   their continuing in the style to which they have become accustomed. I have   
   some sympathy for Blair's view: I believe he looks at those back benches,   
   and the grass roots activists behind them and thinks: 'The sheer ingratitude   
   of it! Look at what I gave you, you pigs and trogs: you were nothing without   
   me and you'll be nothing when I'm gone: you couldn't have got the last ten   
   years of power without me' etc. In other words a bit like Napoleon's   
   marshals begging him to abdicate in 1814.   
     Gordon Brown is waiting in the wings, and waiting. It may well be that   
   Blair will turn resentful over the party turning on him and stay longer than   
      
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