[theo_luddite]

A little note from history, when a General Election was due .....

If the Tories are elected on Thursday, I warn you.

I warn you that you will have pain–when healing and relief depend upon payment.

I warn you that you will have ignorance–when talents are untended and wits are wasted, when learning is a privilege and not a right.

I warn you that you will have poverty–when pensions slip and benefits are whittled away by a government that won’t pay in an economy that can’t pay.

I warn you that you will be cold–when fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich don’t notice and the poor can’t afford.

I warn you that you must not expect work–when many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. When they don’t earn, they don’t spend. When they don’t spend, work dies.

I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light.

I warn you that you will be quiet–when the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient.

I warn you that you will have defence of a sort–with a risk and at a price that passes all understanding.

I warn you that you will be home-bound–when fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up.

I warn you that you will borrow less–when credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income.

If the Tories win on Thursday–

– I warn you not to be ordinary

– I warn you not to be young

– I warn you not to fall ill

– I warn you not to get old.


Sound familiar?

So if I tell you that was Neil Kinnock, about 40 years ago, why are you (not) surprised nothing much has changed about the Tory party in the last 40 years?

to quote him correctly ...

If the Tories are elected on Thursday, I warn you.

was

If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected as prime minister on Thursday, I warn you.

If the Tories win on Thursday–

was

If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday-

She did, did anything change in the last 40 years to say Kinnock was wrong?

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" - as they say whilst pushing yet more inflatables full of desperate people off the beaches of France and into "The Sleeve" that our racist Government label as illegal invaders, whilst too many of them forget how they got here in the first place.[/b]