Hypocrisy and Labour....

7 June 2013

..are true bedfellows.

After all we have seen Labour politicians condemn private education and then send their children to private schools, attack private medicine and go to private hospitals, they claim to be for the workers but target help on the skivers, all for helping the poor but could not care less about the consequences of their profligate spending on the economy.   Yes indeed, hypocrite might almost be an alternative label for a Labour politician.

Now of course we have seen an example of their tax hypocrisy.  They will do anything to help one of their donors, including finding ways to save them tax in order to get a nice big donation.  http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tax-row-ed-miliband-accused-of-hypocrisy-over-labour-party-donation-paid-in-shares-8647553.html

Let me be clear - the only thing wrong here is the hypocrisy, not the act itself.   So where is the 'Elite Greedy Pig' post on the forum attacking this donor and his mate Milliminor?  

Our local socialists are clearly as bad as their Westminster masters.

• Guest 714 wrote:
  See my post on the Greedy Pig thread.
  
  Is that Frank Gallacher or Keith Sansum?
• Guest 655 wrote:
  Yes David - I did, but no reaction, no criticism whatsoever from the usual suspects. Now, just imagine if it was the Conservatives who did that and what these people would be saying.
• Guest 710 wrote:
  [That Winston Churchill bloke has let himself go.]
  
  If hypocrisy were a stagnant pool, sophistry would be the scum that has risen to its surface. (For surely it is sophistry to assign political polarity to what is (morally) right and wrong.)
  I can picture you clearly Barry, at the side of the street, your hands bloodstained and brandishing the gory tools of your trade, crying out, "what is sauce for the goose...".
  What more and more of the British public are beginning to realise is that there is more to Politics than the incessant bickering of the Red and the Blue siblings.
  That the Partys in Parliament are all but indistinguishable, one from another, is a rod they have made for their own backs. It is all so childish.
• howard mcsweeney1 wrote:
  how about starting an elite greedy socialists thread barry?
  
  anyway back to the blog and you state that the reds cater for the skivers yet our m.p. is berating them for planning to cut benefits.
  
  confusing or what?
• Guest 655 wrote:
  No actually he is berating them for their u-turns and hypocrisy Howard. They fought tooth and nail against the benefit reforms after all and then they found that the public actually approve of them.
  
  As for your suggestion - no, the whole premise of that thread is repugnant and wrong. In this case they merely demonstrate their double standards, hypocrisy to be more blunt.
• Guest 756 wrote:
  The Tories have made so many U turns they should be rebranded as a toilet cleaner.
• Guest 655 wrote:
  Far too many of course Lesley. One of the problems with coalitions, no sense of clear direction. But this is about hypocrisy.
• Guest 756 wrote:
  Barry, the issue of private healthcare and education is not that simple, everyone wants the best and the fact that those who can afford to pay get it while those who have every right to the same levels of service but cannot afford to pay get a second rate service is in fact the true hypocrisy.
• Guest 710 wrote:
  Here is a bedfellow for you Barry...
  
  "Erdoğan accuses EU members of hypocrisy over Turkey protests"
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/erdogan-accuses-eu-hypocrisy-turkey-protests
• Guest 655 wrote:
  Lesley - I have said many times that the NHS is not fit for purpose and should be done away with in favour of a continental style insurance funded system. We would all agree that everybody deserves the best possible level of health care and that is not forthcoming from the NHS. But, you will not solve any problems by making everybody use the NHS, that would just cause a massive drain on already over stretched resources.
  
  I have private medical care so that means I pay twice effectively but running a business I cannot afford to depend on the NHS.
• Guest 698 wrote:
  It's a shame that the free-for-all-at -the-point-of-use NHS has become such a sacred cow. If the system were being designed from scratch nowadays, totally free care would only be available to those who genuinely could not afford to contribute towards the cost. I see no reason why comfortably-off people should not have to pay something towards, say, having a joint replaced, or their cancer treatment. If our population had not been brought up on free healthcare, nobody would think twice about missing out on a foreign holiday in order to afford a new hip.