LABOUR- PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST

I don’t know about you, dear reader but I am getting rather fed-up with the likes of some of our local Labour councillors who, pontificate and repeat their political party mantras, like: ‘The Tory wealth trap is making the rich richer, while the rest of the population either stands still or gets poorer’ - whilst their senior hypocritical Westminster bosses; those whose messages these pieces of unenlightened political cannon fodder are blindly spouting at local level, are grabbing money at every opportunity.

 

Take the likes of Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney, who was a strong opponent of the introduction of ‘tuition fees’

You might remember her speech where she said, “There are thousands of young people every year who cannot afford their university fees. We need a fairer system that allows these young people equal access to higher education and we need a system that will not burden students with crippling debt for the rest of their lives.”

Perhaps these local ‘party faithful' that are out week after week, knocking on doors’ might like to explain why, if Ms Abbott is so concerned over student poverty and a staunch opponent of tuition fees, why it was revealed that she charged students £1750 to hear a 50 minute speech delivered by her at the University of Birmingham and charged £1000 to speak at Manchester Metropolitan University?

If you've listen to political voices, both national and local, you’ll find that the local ones; showing nothing but blind faith, merely go around regurgitating their national political waffle, without question, while those from whom the messages flow, are often swanning around, committing the opposite. It's a clear cut case of 'do as we say, not as we do', and that, here in the UK in the 21^st century; ought to be a major scandal, but beyond the political points-scoring, there's a much bigger issue here.

These MPs; and I group all political persuasions in this, are paid for by our taxes – as it stands these people are allowed to interfere wherever they choose and to cheat and obstruct due process at every turn. We, however, must shut up and swallow all this duplicitous nonsense, and not object to anything they waste our money on.

I tell you, hypocrisy simply isn't a strong enough word for people as unscrupulous as these.

So next time there’s a knock on your door and you find a local Labour councillor standing there, allegedly wanting to know about the things that concern you, ask him/her to explain just how, in the light of the above story, the Labour party are putting the interests of people first.