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YET ANOTHER PREDICTABLE ARTICLE FROM LABOUR

This morning, Wayne David MP writes a column in the Western Mail entitled "Nye’s warning as apt now as in 1945 election".

With a general election looming, you would have thought that he would have used this opportunity to expound Labour's successes during the last four and a half years of power and to set out their policies for the next Parliament if they won a fourth term.

No such luck.

Yet again, not one Labour policy is mentioned by Wayne David and instead he focuses his entire efforts on promoting a 'class war' with the Conservatives.

However, as usual, the Labour Party shoots itself directly in the foot by focusing on David Cameron's public school background and suggest that he has very little in common with ordinary people.

"The fundamental question that millions of people have to ask is how on earth can we “trust” David Cameron and the Conservatives. Back in 1944, Aneurin Bevan posed the same question. Today, with the economy showing signs of recovery, it would surely be unwise to place that recovery in jeopardy with a Conservative government out of step with modern Britain."

Is that really the case, Mr David?

Should someone with a public school background be excluded from being PM or being a member of the cabinet as they cannot be trusted?

If so, why didn't you raise the issue when Tony Blair, who went to Fettes School (the Scottish Eton), was Prime Minister?

Even better, if people who went to public school cannot be trusted by the public, surely it is time to call for the resignations of senior members of the Cabinet such as Alastair Darling who went to Loretto (£25k per year fees), Harriet Harman who went to St Paul's (£16k per year) and Ed Balls who went to Nottingham High School (£10k per year)?

Frankly, I don't care whether the whole cabinet went to public school, grammar school or comprehensive school.

Indeed, the only truth about Wayne David's article is that class warriors like himself are stuck in 1945.

In contrast, today's society of 2010 is less interested in where people have come from and more interested in where they are going.

Whilst such a message may get a few of the old guard out to vote in Caerphilly and the rest of the Valleys, it will do nothing to convince those with aspirations living within the Welsh marginal seats to vote for a party which has run out of ideas and is reverting to attacking the opposition.

That is why Labour will lose the next general election, and lose badly.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Welsh Labour MPs represent the worse of politics - backwards looking, tribal, parochial, anti- devolutionist.

Wayne David's comments just show how out touch the Labour Party is with the modern world.
January 06, 2010 12:10 pm
Jeff Jones said…
Bevan's little pamphlet was in fact reminding its readers not of the 1930s but of the Lloyd George government between 1918 and 1922 and the famous implementation of the so called Geddes axe. Bevan was reminding his readers that Lloyd George leading a Tory dominated government had promised voters a'land Fit for Heroes ' and then implemented severe cutbacks in public expenditure to restore the public finances. He was warning them not to be conned again by Lloyd George's friend Churchill. All good knock about stuff and good for the morale but as relevant to 2010 as Gladstone's budgets in the 1860s I'm afraid. If we are looking to the past for inspiration it would be interesting if all present and future MPs decided to adopt Stanley Baldwin's approach to helping the financial crisis facing the UK. Baldwin who was a millionaire decided to donate anonymously a million to the Treasury to help the national finances after World War One. Who knows perhaps after the next election some public spirited MP inspired by old style 19th century Tory values could put forward a bill to implement a modern version of the Baldwin solution to help the UK.
January 06, 2010 12:15 pm
Anonymous said…
Wayne David is part of the rump old old useless Labour that needs to be shed to give the party and their constituents a chance at prosperity.
They stay because they couldnt earn the money or have the benefits they have anywhere else.
They attack the Tories because thats all they know.If you quizzed them on policy they wouldnt know what it is
What we want is a range of people with varying and complimentary skills, just as we would look to for a good business.
There are Tory Toffs worth zip just as there are Labour Butty Boys of equal ilk
People should be judged on what they deliver not the strata they are percieved to inhabit
January 06, 2010 1:20 pm
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