UK: Them and us – the gulf between government and governed

“Instead of serving the people, the new Political Class looks after its own interests.”

News article filed by BNP news team
 
What’s the difference between the Labour and Conservative Parties, or Labour and the LibDems or the Conservatives and the LibDems?

Apart from the name, there is no difference. They are all committed to staying in the EU. They are all committed to mass migration. They are all committed to a diverse, multi-ethnic, multicultural society which we are told “enriches” us. They are all committed to globalisation with the consequences for our own work force and small businesses. They are all committed to taking as much out of the taxpayer as possible to pay for grandiose schemes and pet projects which give nothing back to the people of this country.

On all the crucial issues of the day that really matter they are one and the same. They are three heads of the same pro-globalisation, pro-multicultural monster.In today’s Daily Mail there is a commendable article which provides an insight into how the three parties have become one in all but name.

Acclaimed journalist Peter Obourne writes in the paper as part of a serialized version of his book about the sleaze of the British ruling class and says that:

“[Sir Patrick is one of hundreds of Members of Parliament who now belong to a Political Class that has become entrenched at the centre of British politics, government and society.

“This new Political Class has emerged over the past three decades to become the dominant force in British public life – and increasingly pursues its own sectional interests oblivious to the public good.

“It encompasses lobbyists, party functionaries, advisers and spindoctors, many journalists, and increasing numbers of once independent civil servants. All mainstream politicians of the three main parties belong to it. Gordon Brown is a member, so is the Tory leader David Cameron.”

The gulf in today’s society exists not between the party of Capital (Conservatives) and the party of Workers (Labour) but between government and the governed.

“This means that the most important division in Britain is no longer the Tory versus Labour dividing line that marked out the battle zone in politics for the bulk of the 20th century. The real division is between a narrow, self-serving and – as we will see – increasingly corrupt Political Class and the mass of ordinary voters.

“Just as it was impossible to understand how Britain worked 50 years ago without grasping the significance of the old Establishment, today it is impossible to grasp how power operates without understanding the nature of this Political Class.

“Its most noticeable characteristic is a chronic lack of experience of and connection with the world outside politics. Its members make government their exclusive study and tend to have no significant experience of industry, commerce, or civil society.”

Series of cock-ups

This lack of experience at the very top probably accounts for the utter disasters of recent years which have cost taxpayers and industry to foot the bill.

“Recent examples include catastrophic IT systems breakdowns in Whitehall departments; the failure to prepare for the post-war situation in Iraq (an act of gross negligence of historical magnitude); the nationalisation of Railtrack; the mismanagement of NHS reforms; the Millennium Dome; the collapse of the Home Office as a functional organisation in 2006; the shambles over Home Information Packs; and the handling of the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis.”

Mr. Obourne ends his report with the disturbing conclusion that:

“This estrangement is very perilous for British democracy. It is the reason for the collapse in trust in the British political process, and the sharply falling turn-out at general elections.

“Instead of serving the people, the new Political Class looks after its own interests. And as I will show tomorrow, the effect on our institutions of government has been nothing short of disastrous.”

The full article can be read http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=479478&in_page_id=1770.

http://www.bnp.org.uk

2007-09-04