The current Labour leadership is now agreed on at least one big thing, which is that the battle
of image, perception and credibility is what counts. They accept, sensible chaps - I refer to the
two Eds Miliband & Balls, that thy have a ‘credibility gap’ with the British electorate on the economy.
So we witness the unedifying sight of them lusting after for credibility. Of course no one
knows what ‘credibility’ is, or how one acquires it. ‘Credibility’ doesn’t stand for anything
morally straightforward, like meaning what you say or saying what you mean. Nor does it
signify anything remotely quantifiable – any correlation between evidence presented and case
made. 'Credibility' is a consensus euphemism. But that aside, if you can convince 'them' that
you 'get it' then you are on the way mending the fences you vandalised while you were in power. Does it matter that you are systematically lying? Not a jot, if you are Ed and Ed. For what you engaging in realpolitik, that is not to say you stop lying what you do is improve its public presentation.
And Ed and Ed, have been driven to this by ‘approval ratings’ for that Election (2015) is getting uncomfortably close. This is the two Eds perception, a
move or two away from the word ‘perceptive’. But in the world of PR it is impressions,
‘National mood’ and ‘sea change’ which carries impressions, not facts. 'Its what makes it in the media, stupid.' anxious surveys are conducted in order to see how the electorate can be flattered
and massaged by changes of emphasis, their moist endorsement of the Welfare state, the mantle
of Nye Bevin is soon discarded if there are votes in it.
Labour’s leadership is now agreed on at least one big thing, which is that the battle of image, perception and credibility is what counts.
At one point The Labour Party were sternly opposed to the pseudo-science of PR and polling,
and to the political hucksterism. However Ed Miliband has even stopped using big words
which might as well be Serbo-Croat for all the great uneducated British public know.
So we witness from the leaders of the British Labour party is the unedifying spectacle while
trying to square their volte face, vote-buying speeches with their Union paymasters, they display
a ingenue type desire to please. The two Eds, especially Ed Balls untuned the string of the
economy and handed the Coalition a broken instrument with the parting tuner from Liam Byrne 'sorry...there is no money left." What they did leave was a Brobdingnagian deficit,So Labour
like some thief in the night endeavour to steal Tory garments and use them to deck out their
'policies'.
They make their born again speeches for they decided to find out what people wanted and
before it is too to late, then give it to them. Here are our policies and principles and if you don’t
like them, don't worry we’ll soon change them.
The Coalition (if you can exclude the hissy prone Clegg) have put into action through sado-monetarism towards Welfare a display of nerve and conviction politics. Every move he
proposed to cut the Benefits bill was opposed by the Labour Party.
Evidently Labour wish to please, a trait which is usually fatal. To think of them getting into power is to conjure up the image in the Pablo Neruda poem, : '..and the trunk of the tree of the country rots.’ Still, where there
is power hungry greed,
Ed Miliband has set out his stall, his cri de coeur is his credibility; yes, a career wagered on credibility, but then the ratchet of the credible paradoxically operates to the benefit of people
who really mean what they say. "I am just like you." You are not Ed, you are a millionaire
(through property speculation) and extraordinarily privileged, Oxford, London School of Economics,
and then on to to Harvard, which is great if you have the
money and you don't have to to work.
As it has become evident that their opposition to Welfare cuts was not working - as it is
championed by the Electorate, Labour have done a mind boggling cynical about turn.
So what will it be like if the Labour Party get back into power?
In the words of the late, lamented Christopher Hitchens,
it will be like a Weimar without the sex.
of image, perception and credibility is what counts. They accept, sensible chaps - I refer to the
two Eds Miliband & Balls, that thy have a ‘credibility gap’ with the British electorate on the economy.
So we witness the unedifying sight of them lusting after for credibility. Of course no one
knows what ‘credibility’ is, or how one acquires it. ‘Credibility’ doesn’t stand for anything
morally straightforward, like meaning what you say or saying what you mean. Nor does it
signify anything remotely quantifiable – any correlation between evidence presented and case
made. 'Credibility' is a consensus euphemism. But that aside, if you can convince 'them' that
you 'get it' then you are on the way mending the fences you vandalised while you were in power. Does it matter that you are systematically lying? Not a jot, if you are Ed and Ed. For what you engaging in realpolitik, that is not to say you stop lying what you do is improve its public presentation.
And Ed and Ed, have been driven to this by ‘approval ratings’ for that Election (2015) is getting uncomfortably close. This is the two Eds perception, a
move or two away from the word ‘perceptive’. But in the world of PR it is impressions,
‘National mood’ and ‘sea change’ which carries impressions, not facts. 'Its what makes it in the media, stupid.' anxious surveys are conducted in order to see how the electorate can be flattered
and massaged by changes of emphasis, their moist endorsement of the Welfare state, the mantle
of Nye Bevin is soon discarded if there are votes in it.
Labour’s leadership is now agreed on at least one big thing, which is that the battle of image, perception and credibility is what counts.
At one point The Labour Party were sternly opposed to the pseudo-science of PR and polling,
and to the political hucksterism. However Ed Miliband has even stopped using big words
which might as well be Serbo-Croat for all the great uneducated British public know.
So we witness from the leaders of the British Labour party is the unedifying spectacle while
trying to square their volte face, vote-buying speeches with their Union paymasters, they display
a ingenue type desire to please. The two Eds, especially Ed Balls untuned the string of the
economy and handed the Coalition a broken instrument with the parting tuner from Liam Byrne 'sorry...there is no money left." What they did leave was a Brobdingnagian deficit,So Labour
like some thief in the night endeavour to steal Tory garments and use them to deck out their
'policies'.
They make their born again speeches for they decided to find out what people wanted and
before it is too to late, then give it to them. Here are our policies and principles and if you don’t
like them, don't worry we’ll soon change them.
The Coalition (if you can exclude the hissy prone Clegg) have put into action through sado-monetarism towards Welfare a display of nerve and conviction politics. Every move he
proposed to cut the Benefits bill was opposed by the Labour Party.
Evidently Labour wish to please, a trait which is usually fatal. To think of them getting into power is to conjure up the image in the Pablo Neruda poem, : '..and the trunk of the tree of the country rots.’ Still, where there
is power hungry greed,
Ed Miliband has set out his stall, his cri de coeur is his credibility; yes, a career wagered on credibility, but then the ratchet of the credible paradoxically operates to the benefit of people
who really mean what they say. "I am just like you." You are not Ed, you are a millionaire
(through property speculation) and extraordinarily privileged, Oxford, London School of Economics,
and then on to to Harvard, which is great if you have the
money and you don't have to to work.
As it has become evident that their opposition to Welfare cuts was not working - as it is
championed by the Electorate, Labour have done a mind boggling cynical about turn.
So what will it be like if the Labour Party get back into power?
In the words of the late, lamented Christopher Hitchens,
it will be like a Weimar without the sex.
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