Nationalists’ “Political Earthquake” Rocks Labour Party

Will Labour listen now as they try and pick up the pieces after losing Glasgow East? .........

Stewart Cowan, 25/7/08

After a recount last night in the Glasgow East by-election, the SNP was confirmed to have taken Labour's 25th 'safest' seat with a majority of 365, overturning a massive 13,507 majority: a swing from Labour to the Nats of 22.54%.

John Mason, the new Scottish National Party MP for Glasgow East said, "Three weeks ago the SNP predicted a political earthquake. This SNP victory is not just a political earthquake, it is off the Richter scale. It is an epic win and the tremors will be felt all the way to Downing Street."

Margaret Curran, the Labour candidate said, "I regret that I did not win this for Labour tonight."

"I do believe the Labour Party has to listen and has to hear the message from the people of Glasgow East."

Well, what else was she supposed to say? It's the same old codswallop; the same old slapping down of labour's already downtrodden foot soldiers with the standard trite remark; the same old rhetoric to avoid supplying a proper answer.

Two years ago, the BBC had the headline: 'Labour will listen' says Blears.

"Labour will listen more to its rank-and-file members, Labour Party chairman Hazel Blears has pledged. She told a London conference, organised by left-wing think-tank Compass, that many rank-and-file were discontent with the leadership."

"Amicus union leader Derek Simpson said Labour was set for a general election defeat if it did not change direction."

Of course, some people just cannot admit that they have done a bad job and have to divert attention onto others.

The BBC piece said that Ed Balls accused Conservative leader David Cameron of hypocrisy.

"What we are hearing is the same old conservatism that prefers a minimal state and cuts in investment and leaves the poorest and the weakest in our society dependent on charity," he said.

10% tax band removed, Mr Balls? Hypocrite!

Massive influx of cheap labour, Mr Balls? Hypocrite!!

After May's local council election humiliation for Labour, their deputy leader, Harriet Harman, said:

“I think that we have got to really listen to what people were saying when they were expressing their views in the election yesterday."

“We have to reflect and listen to what people are saying – that is the whole point about having elections in our democracy.”

Maybe they really are good at listening; they just don't care to act on what they hear.

So the answer to the headline, "Will Labour listen now," is NO!

Because they are bought and paid for by global corporate and banking interests. They have been commandeered to look after the interests of the few while enslaving the masses through overbearing taxation, intrusion into our lives, weakening of the family, Christian influence and strong, decent communities so that the elite they serve can micromanage us out of the chaos and confusion they create.

Are any of the other mainstream parties much different?

Here is the full result from Glasgow East:

* John Mason, SNP - 11,277
* Margaret Curran, Labour - 10,912
* Davena Rankin, Conservative - 1,639
* Ian Robertson, Lib Dem - 915
* Frances Curran, Scottish Socialist Party - 555
* Tricia McLeish, Solidarity - 512
* Dr Eileen Duke, Scottish Greens - 232
* Chris Creighton, Independent - 67
* Hamish Howitt, Freedom 4 Choice - 65

Turnout: 42.25%

The by-election was necessitated by the resignation of Labour's David Marshall on health grounds.

Pretty in Pink: The Clown Prince of London at the End of a Very Bad Week

To show my willingness to write about bad politics across the board, I introduce another of my new websites: theconservativeparty.org.uk which asks, "Are the Tories suitable candidates to take over from Labour in this 'left-right' charade that is British politics?"

I will be concentrating on thelabourparty.org as long as the global banking cartel, transnational corporations, eugenicists, unelected think tanks, Eurocrats and UN bodies are using the Labour Party to control the British people.

This article's headline refers to London Mayor, Boris Johnson's appearance in yesterday's "Gay Pride" parade in the capital. Picture: Daily Mail.

Mr Johnson supported Section 28, which barred local councils, including schools, from promoting homosexuality. Despite being assured, just a few years ago, that ditching this piece of allegedly unnecessary legislation would not lead to homosexuality being promoted in schools, the opposite is happening.

Johnson once remarked that, "If gay marriage was OK - and I was uncertain on the issue - then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog."

You cannot say he doesn't recognise a slippery slope when he sees one.

Also making an appearance in the parade were members of the British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.

The Times reports that, "The new orders allowed servicemen to wear full military uniform, but decorum was strictly enforced yesterday. Whistles, banners and decorations were not allowed. The units marched in neat formation amongst revellers, avoiding eye contact with the public."

I expect we will have to wait until next year to watch our servicemen and women dress as transvestites. That will make the enemy quiver in their boots, won't it?

I suppose all this helped the Mayor forget about the resignation of his deputy, Ray Lewis.

While newspaper reports mull over alleged sexual and financial misdemeanours, a press release has Mr Lewis saying that these are completely unfounded.

Mr Johnson believes that his "deputy Mayor Ray Lewis is being made to suffer now because he has had the guts to serve in this administration and because he has had the courage to speak out against a stifling orthodoxy that has failed too many of our children."

I certainly will not argue that much of what has become orthodox today is counter-productive, shambolic and downright wicked. How are youngsters supposed to know how to behave when they are bombarded with different messages about right and wrong?

One example being sex. In times past, the issue of whether or not to engage in sexual activity involved issues such as morality, self-worth, purity and concern about pregnancy and the resulting need to do the right thing should it happen, but now all this has been reduced by government and the media to the 'importance of taking precautions,' which rules out personal responsibility in all areas of normal human relationships, thus attempting to reduce youngsters to less than animals, devoid of instincts like fidelity, trust and honour and depriving them of the benefit of building a strong family.

Boris Johnson made a major error earlier in the week, in my opinion, when he advised youngsters not to intervene if they saw a fight.

The message is a U-turn of his utterance last year that people should take a risk and tackle thugs.

The police have been engineered to be more concerned with trivialities than serious crime and the Mayor now expects the public to be neutered as well: everyone powerless and pathetic against the darker elements in our society.

Doesn't it all make you proud to be British?

As Deborah Orr writes in The Independent, "Be afraid. Be very afraid. But try not to forget that fear is the enemy."

One of my favourite pieces of scripture is this:

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4:18

Finally and politics aside, my condolences go to Boris Johnson, his wife and family on the death Sir Charles Wheeler, foreign correspondent for the BBC and father of the Mayor's wife.