Rid Us Of This Tory Governmenment

[lambsy_uk]

Why is it I hear this phrase; "Rid Us Of This Tory Government", and others more disparaging so often?

Jerry Corby said it during his speech to the TUC conference, Ed Balls said it while being interviwed on Radio 4 during the Labour leadership campaign. In fact I have heard many Labour MPs, and I think at least one SNP MP say it during interviews in recent weeks.

So why this attack on Torys? Have the Labour party no worth orther than not being Tory?! Do parts of the electorate consider ridding us of Tories to be more important than installing a Labour government?

To me there is something rather lacking and distasteful about demonising Tories and besmirching all those who recently elected them to Government with a Majority. They did get elected you know!, using the same democratic process that delivered a landslide for Labour in 1997 and kept them there for 13 yeras. And yet it appears they deem the most appropriate thing to do is demonise Tories as though they are alien to our society!

Where are the ideals of the Labour party? Where are the policies they would rather impose? Why do we hear so much about what they want to rid us of (us who have just elected them) and so little about what they want to replace them with?!

Perhaps this is just another sign that the Labour party is defunct, reduced to a party that opposes but presents no credentials for governing themselves!

Any thoughts?

[******lynda******]

I agree. Why have they forgotten that at the end of Labour's last stint in power EVERY party in the run up to elections warned that cuts were inevitable.

Alastair Darling said, if Labour got back in, the cuts he would have to impose would be worse than those under Margaret Thatcher.

The bubble had burst. There was no money left. And much as everyone likes to vilify the bankers, they were only  partly to blame, but a useful scapegoat nonetheless.

It was totally publicised at the time that the finances were in such a state that our grandchildren and beyond would still be suffering the effects, but we, now, had to do something to ensure they did not have to bear the full burden. There would be no quick or easy fix. 

history shows that after every Labour stint, the country teeters on bankruptcy, the Tories get voted in to fix the problems and like any medicine, it has a bad taste and the populace hate it. 

When not elected and working in opposition, it is easy to decry and malign the elected body. However, we have yet to hear the opposition alternatives. They can pretend to hate changes that they secretly know they would have had to make themselves. 

If if the elected government, whoever that may be in our financial positio, is not seen to be trying to deal with the problem, our borrowing costs will escalate, if we can continue to borrow at all.

And while everyone likes to malign the Tories for having personal wealth, and therefore being out of touch, can I point out that there are plenty of Labour millionaires. They may say they want equality for all but how socialist are they really?  they seem pretty comfortable with the idea of personal wealth for themselves

...Blair, Miliband, Balls, Hodge, Harriet Harman

in 2013 there were 7 millionaires in the Shadow Cabinet, and many more advising Miliband. 

[lightblueberet]

Millionaires in a rich country, is one thing...millionaires in a poor country, as the one I'm living in, is another !

That's what sticks in my craw !  

[joamur_gosof]

All the examples of labour party were tories there  lynda .... not a one of them was a working class idealism,all were tory thinking wealth grabs who ''know best''. Even the liberals were tory ...thatcher saw to it  British politics were made up of rich grabbers compared to the fiddlers before her...the difference ?  well a multi millionaire 'when is enough enough' vs a little bit for me when no ones looking...but I will give thatcher the fact that whilst she was in it was not a case of just rob em ...that mantle is the can of worms she opened ..and he wants hanging imo.

So yep ''rid us of these tory governments'  spot on. Lets have politics run by people instead of ideals. A millionaire who advises is cool if self made ,a poor person because of their generosity is cool too.