Blue Labour - another Damascene conversion with no flash of light

Here we go again....

Labour are unpopular. They have a 'structural deficit' in their supporter base and the AV referendum has made it clear to them that this is a problem.

Think of how unpopular and hated (politically - no doubt she's a fine person & a fun to be with ) Harriet Harman is for her progressive agenda.

Well the boys and girls in Labour have a new reality to introduce their flock to - Blue Labour. Turns out the country's conservative after all, and guess what ? So will Labour be.

#RedEd Miliband who only a few weeks ago was giving speeches about the progressive majority in the UK, now thinks the 180degr opposite and its forwarding a pdf file E-Books ( yes that's right- really trendy stuff - shows how hip and with it he is ) on Blue Labour. ( Somehow the University of Middelsex provided financial support for this exercise - which makes the mind boggle at what about word processing requires a University to prostitute itself and corrupt its impartiality that way ? )

But what's missing here is the road to Damascus conversion. You know the point when the leader of the Labour party realises in a flashing burst of light that he's been wrong all along and must now repent and get on with the opposite.

It was missing with Tony Blair and New Labour ( though Blair did at least thoughtfully try to invent a moment when he met Mondeo Man ), none of which explains the CND joining Labour party member who was in the Labour party through its most neolithic headbangingly stupid phase of the 1970's and 1980's.

And its missing for Ed Miliband ( like his loyalty to his brother, the name on his son's birth certificate and his failure to marry the mother of his children ).

The public are again going to be asked to suspend disbelief as we are told that Two legs bad, Four legs good really always excluded Pigs.

Its by the absence of this part of the journey - the convincing conversion - that we know its just Labour doing anything for votes. When they get back in they will carry on with their anti-family, anti-Male, anti-Business, hatred of marriage type policies that their middle class progressive leftie leadership really believe in. But for now they are willing to humour their bigoted woman and any other voters in exchange for a cross on a ballot paper.

Don't be fooled again.

Something is going on with Labour's economic truth denial policy

Apparently Ed Balls is almost about to admit that there might have been a tiny little itsy bitsy structural deficit, which could (just technically amongst less generous commentators mind you) have been considered to have happened whilst Labour were in power. ( Apparently its in the New Statesman somewhere ).

So Denial not working for the two Eds so well then ?

My guess is Labour have been stung by the torrent of abuse they have received for supporting the public sector dinosaurs and their rent a thug supporters on #march26.

I bet the private polling is in.

I bet they realise people have seen through their lies and deceit.

So we'll perhaps be getting a new position shortly.

They had better move quickly before Portugal really blows up and the public become even more incredulous of Labour Debt Denial policy.

Labour's new leader is already an accomplished liar and coward - ( unless its Diane Abbott )

How do I know this ? Well listening to Steve Richards’s first edition [link only valid for a few days] of his programme on the Brown years in No 10.

We hear ex-minister talking about the lies with the election that never was.

We know that things were terrible in No10, with Brown moving between despair and rage - and that was on a good day. We also know that none of the narrow minded selfish careerists put country before their own ambition and tried to do anything about it.

We know that factions briefed and lied against each other.

We know that Brown lied directly to the camera about the election that never was and that it was the middle class of southern England who saved the country ( I think those of us in that category can all have a little pat on the back for that one. )

Combine this with the cowardice that all the main candidates except perhaps David Miliband have show over the massive crippling debt they run up and the structural deficit Brown introduced just ( remember this ) to make it hard for the Tories at the general election. ( This is on record when Brown was talking to a Clinton adviser who asked him why he was running a deficit in the good times and Brown answered to make life difficult for the Tories at the election ).

Brown and co got of lightly over their tactical attempts to copy the Conservative inheritance tax proposals, which they then shamelessly tried to attack latter. ( My guess is that the thing that scared Brown and his Labour skivvies was the impact on the key voter group they were denying was tipping their election date considerations ).

No one who was in Brown's government is morally fit to run this country and unless Labour have a strange turn and election Diane Abbott then it means the next Labour leader is already damaged goods.

Sometimes we have very short memories in politics - but the moral corruption of the last Labour government should be a memory many of us keep alive for a very long time.