Labour's new election posters

[TomCaleyJag]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/ap...-brown-hard-man

Labour's shocking new election poster... Can't believe they're really sinking to this level tbh.

P.S. - If you know what's going on here keep it to yourself...

[WYNESS101]

Quite sad if you ask me.

C'MON THE GREEN PARTY

[DornochCaley]

Is that for real? If it is, i am embarassed for labour. But aslong as The Conservatives don't get in, i will be happy.

SSP!

[Yngwie]

Fair play to the Guardian for publishing this exclusive today.

[Renegade]

Remember the date...

[Charles Bannerman]

Remember the date...

Indeed... I am reliably informed that the date is relevant here!!

[TomCaleyJag]

Indeed.

The story appeared bang on midnight and thought it might fool a few on here :D

That's why I put "if you know what's going on here etc." at the end of my post. But what with it being after midday.. Yes I believe this to be an April Fools :D

[DornochCaley]

The name of the reporter can be changed to spell April Fool.

[Canada Bob]

Seriously though, part of the problem with Politics in the UK is that a good many folks vote for what they were born into and from that became imprinted {like a duck} to follow, keeping themselves inline by a healthy hatred of the other lot.

Don't make a lot of sense does it, but for millions of folks that's what motivates their decisions, and as long as it remains like that there will always be a class divide promoting an "us and them" mentality.

So what to do ? vote for those you have persuaded yourself to hate, or the ones who you think represent you, even though you suspect they are actually *issing up yer back ? Thankfully you have a realistic 3rd option in Scotland.

Having said the above {about the entrenched}, there does seem to be a growing number of folks now who having lost their respect and affiliation for who they used to vote for now cast their vote to vote a party out, rather than vote whoever it is in...

It's a beggar when these dyed in the wool Tribal attitudes seem to determine what we'd like to pass off as Democracy.

I guess we should use our heads rather than our {sometimes} primitive instincts when we align ourselves with any political party. As long as {lets say} Labour can count on the support of the entrenched they won't need to do anything {and don't do anything} for them, they have their votes in the bag {for a life time}, whilst Labour courts the "visible minorities" in the hope of imprinting themselves on women and Muslims. Gawd help us if they ever run the Country, but if folks keep on voting without thinking it through, the ship will sink...

Speaking of ships, what was it Gordon Brown said recently, "I'd like to stay at the helm for another 5 years", aint that like the Captain of the Titanic saying he'd like to direct the lifeboats ?

Maybe I should mention that I used to be a Labour supporter / worker / campaigner for many years, and >40 years later I'm still Left Wing, {fact is, if I could spell Communist, I'd be one}. But when it comes down to who Neo Labour represents or "Benefits" these days {other than themselves} I have little if anything in common with them.

In Wigin they used to say, if your 20 and your not a socialist you have no heart, if your 40 and your still a socialist you have no brains. One thing that life has taught me is that voting Labour don't qualify you as a socialist, nor does voting Tory disqualify you.

What "socialism" means to me is that if we use the skills, talents, discipline and determination that we have, we should be able to improve our lot in life. But there will always be folks who may not have been blessed with the talents, ability, intellect or skills that we might be fortunate enough to have. In these cases we should give a helping hand, looking after folks who for one LEGITIMATE reason or another aren't as capable as the rest of us to provide {in Health or Wealth} for themselves.

I guess that's the difference, being charitable and compassionate enough to give a helping hand is one thing, carrying lazy b astards on our backs for a lifetime is another. The short form of it for me is, what I'd like for myself, I'd like to be available and afforded to others, that's the foundation of my "socialism".

There should be a social safety net to ensure that folks who fall sick or become unemployed don't crash to the ground.

The problem is, Neo Labour have raised the safety net so high that there's no fall involved {in the standard of living}.

For millions the social safety net has become a comfortable hammock for the bone idle and the workshy to sleep in until the streets are aired. That's not how it's supposed to be, where the standard of living for those who have work diligently for 40-50 years isn't any better than the folks who {for no good reason other than being bone idle} decided to be carried though life on the backs of the income tax payers.

If Harold Wilson was alive today, he'd be turning in his grave !

Canada {thankfully} Bob.

Edited April 4, 2010 by Canada Bob