Mostly noted just so everyone understands that even if the left wins, its not necessarily the end of the world for good and all…the right can stage a comeback:
Voters are increasingly writing off Labour as fewer people believe that a change of leader or policy would help the party to win the next general election.
A Populus poll for The Times, undertaken over the weekend after Labour’s defeat in Glasgow East, suggests that its dramatic slide in popularity is being driven by a collapse in economic confidence.
Labour is on 27 per cent, down one point on the last Populus poll three weeks ago, and about the level it has been for the past three months. This is the lowest since the early 1980s.
The Conservatives are on 43 per cent — up two points — with the Liberal Democrats down one point at 18 per cent. Other parties are unchanged on 12 per cent.
While 43% for the Conservatives doesn’t seem like a lot, the way British elections work this would result in a crushing conservative majority in the House of Commons, were the election held today. The good news for Labour is that they don’t have to call an election for some time yet (their elections aren’t rigidly scheduled as ours are), and so there’s a chance Labour will pull it together and at least avert destruction, if not a loss.
It has been a long road back for the Conservatives in Britain, and one wonders whether the past decade plus of Labour rule has entirely wrecked the chances of Britian remaining the nation we know - with the Archibishop of Canterbury suggesting that sharia law is ok with him (while traditionalist Anglicans warm up to reunion with Rome) and falling native birth rates plus heavy Moslem immigration threatening to overturn British life, things look a little bleak for the long term…but where there’s life, there’s hope and as the left is the left, it is inevitible that eventually the people will reject it. The Conservatives in Britian look like they’re going to get another shot at cleaning up Labour’s mess; lets hope they do it right, just as we hope the Republican Party gets its act together and does it right here at home.
Tags: British politics, Conservative Party, Labour Party
July 31st, 2008
Not that British politics means all too much for the United States, but here’s an example of how even the slickest leftism backed by the entire popular culture and its MSM can still be beaten by conservatism:
Conservative leader David Cameron hailed his party’s victory in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election as marking the “end of New Labour”.
But while describing Edward Timpson’s triumph - on an emphatic swing of 17.6 per cent - as “remarkable”, Mr Cameron added: “I know we still have a long way to go.”
Mr Timpson wiped out the 7,000 majority achieved by the late Gwyneth Dunwoody in the 2005 general election, to win by a margin of almost 8,000 votes over the former MP’s daughter Tamsin.
Labour’s Deputy Leader Harriet Harman conceded that voters were demanding action on the faltering economy and angry about soaring oil and food prices and the Government’s handling of the abolition of the 10p tax rate.
Maggie Thatcher’s campaign slogan from 1979 was “Labour Isn’t Working” - a double hit on rising British unemployment and the fact that the Labour party really had no clue on what to do about it. Naturally, a leftwing party never, ever has a clue on what to do about things because leftist thought is wrong from the start, and thus can’t get it right. “New Labour” coasted to victory on the back of a stunning rise in world prosperity starting in the 90’s (mostly, of course, the result of Thatcherism in the UK and Reaganism in the USA) which cloaked its manifest failure to get anything right. Blair proved a brilliant politician and showed he had rare courage in backing the liberation of Iraq, but in fiscal and social policy, he was a mess…and his successor is just more so, without the charm of Blair. Now that more stringent times are on offer, Labour is failing to figure out what needs to be done, just as the American left hasn’t a clue (though this is masked by the fact that they are the “out” party, and may get rewarded simply for being such in November…but if the left does win, it’ll all come crashing down as people get a good look at leftwing incompetance).
Keep this in mind, fellow conservatives - if we do enter the political wildnerness in November, it will have an end…we’d prefer to spare our nation a dose of leftism, but we’ll also stand prepared to endure, knowing that the left will mess it up, and the people will turn back to us, just as they are in the UK.
Tags: British politics, Conservatism, Labour Party, Tony Blair, Tory Party
May 23rd, 2008
