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With the disastrous effects of successive Labour administrations taking hold now in areas as diverse yet inextricably connected as social engineering, science, agriculture, financial services, transport, power, do you need me to go on?
Bearing this in mind I find it difficult to believe that anyone in the Labour party still believes that they have a cat in hells chance of being successful in the next general election. Success I suppose can be determined by your own definition but none of them can really expect to win the damn thing.
I cannot, as a reasonable person, and in all honesty, say that I am surprise, much less shocked at the Guardian report entitled: -Labour quietly postpones law banning non-doms from funding political parties
A much-publicised law designed to stop wealthy tax exiles bankrolling political parties has been quietly dropped until after a general election, the Observer has learned.
The disclosure means that key Labour donors such as Lakshmi Mittal as well as Tory donor Lord Ashcroft will still be able to pump millions of pounds into the forthcoming election campaign, despite promises to curb the influence of wealthy backers. It has prompted accusations that the government has "nobbled" an act of parliament by failing to ask the electoral commission to enforce the rule.
Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman, said he suspected Labour had abandoned its principled stand of just a few weeks ago because of concerns that the party cannot fight a cut-price general election against cash-rich Tories. "To support an important piece of legislation stopping this underhand practice and not bring it in before a general election is like banning a drug-taking footballer but allowing him to play in the cup final," he said.
"I suspect the electoral commission is not being pushed by the government to get on with it. Labour needs to realise that they will never win an arms race with the Tories on dodgy donations."
Philosophically dodgy territory for me though it is agreeing with a Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman I am going to do it. When they are right what else can you do?
The Labour party fiddlers, both electoral and musical, are in full swing to ensure that as many of the cabal as possible retain a grip on the greasy political pole that Westminster has become whilst utilising the last vestige of influence over foreign donors.
