Monday, June 2, 2008
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Farewell, Labour! You have become irrelevant. The industrial base has been exported to Asia and the unions which sprang from them sidelined and emasculated. I heard that gormless prole Derek Simpson growling on t'wireless this morning and it quite took me back to the days of Len Murray (who died, grey and disillusioned, of a heart attack not long after Thatcher got the keys to No. 10). It took me back to the days when these arseholes dictated government policy over beer and sandwiches. Democrats, they called themselves, overlooking their disenfranchisement of all British subjects who had the temerity not to be union members.
These men were the intellectual giants -- the far-seeing humanitarians with the welfare of their members and the country at heart -- who brought you Grunwick, the dockers' strike, the miners' strike, the Social Contract, the Winter of Discontent, the English Disease. Take the example of Austin Morris (subsequently renamed, via a series of increasingly desperate euphemisms, "BL"). Its industrial relations were so poisoned by communist agitators and petty strikes that its cars became, as planned, a byword for unreliability and shoddy workmanship. Nobody with an ounce of sense bought one, and the company collapsed, along with most of the rest of the British car industry.
What goes around, comes around. Now nobody with an ounce of sense will vote Labour, and the party itself has collapsed. It would have collapsed anyway, without Brown. Blair hollowed it out. By 1992 he must have seen that the Labour Party could have no future in post-industrial Britain. Its only use was as a personal vehicle for himself: a vanity project.
So really, it hardly matters whether they ditch Brown. Personally, I hope they do, just to humiliate him: for he is a bully, and bullies are always cowards, and what a coward hates most, after danger, is ridicule. If they leave him in place there is perhaps a risk that the British affection for failures will suddenly redound to his advantage and lift him somewhat in the polls, but even that will not be enough to gain long-term electoral advantage or stave off the inevitable.
If I were a Labour MP just now, I'd be checking out the noticeboards at my local Job Centre. But, given the quality of your typical Labour MP, that could be a bit depressing.