George Orwell – 1984

A question.

1984 or 2011?

The inhabitants of ??????? particularly the party members, have no real privacy. Many of them live in apartments equipped with two-way telescreens, so that they may be watched or listened to at any time. Similar telescreens are found at workstations and in public places, along with hidden microphones. Written correspondence is routinely opened and read by the government before it is delivered. The Thought Police employ undercover agents, who pose as normal citizens and report any person with subversive tendencies. Children are encouraged to report suspicious persons to the government, and some even denounce their own parents.

This surveillance allows for effective control of the citizenry. The smallest sign of rebellion, even something so small as a facial expression, can result in immediate arrest and imprisonment. Thus, citizens (and particularly party members) are compelled to absolute obedience at all times.

Given the recent hysteria in Britain today surrounding Christian B&B owners, Sports Commentators, sexism, racism, islamaphobia, secularism, the Police, MP’s  expenses, the BBC and press ownership in general (well more in terms of Sky), the list is endless these days but what similarities do we find in the fictional 1984 and actual 21st century Britain?

Answers on a post card please to…..

Pray we don’t have a hung parliament!

I know it’s easy for many people to chant “lets give them a chance” or “a coalition would be best” or even “a hung parliament is probably best for us all”. Let me just say NONE OF THESE ARE GOOD IDEAS!

Firstly, letting the LibDems in will be terrible beyond belief to all those floating voters who (1) Hate the EU (2) Hate Gordon Brown and New Labour including Blair or (3) don’t vote consistently.  Why?  Because they are further to the left of British politics than Stalin or Pol Pot! That’s Why! [Oh and the Labour Party]

Let me give you ten good reasons why not to let Cleggy near power.

1) Lib/Dems are just not squeaky clean & holier than thou at all

2) The party isn't as Liberal or Democratic as they will tax the pants off us!

3) Vince Cable isn't as good on financial matters as he takes credit for

4) The Party is led by a closet social engineer and exponent of every form of political correctness called Nick Clegg

5) Their existing MPs are not worth a penny

6) They're just as bad on "tax & spend" as the current Labour lot, if not worse. “it’s only cost a penny on tax” I hear them muttering even as I type

7) They're the worst pro-EU party of the lot and that that's not a good thing for all you all you rabid anti EU people who don’t want to vote Labour or UKIP or even BNP!

8) They're one of the worst pro-global warming / Pro-climate change / pro-Scam green tax parties of all, just when it's been exposed as a massive fraud.

9) They've not really changed that much since Jeremy Thorpe was leader or Charles Kennedy or…..

10) An update, [thanks to John Redwood]  and back to Vince Cable again..... he's a "serial flip-flopper"

I would rather fly in the face of 42 years of consistent Tory voting and vote Labour ( even with Gordon Broone at the helm) than suffer the open toed sandals of a powerbase of LibDem MP’s  nannying us into our graves that they will have us dug with our hard earned taxes.

A Final reminder to those of you who hate all things PC… beware the LibDems.

Who hate extra taxes, beware the LibDems

Green taxes, want them?  Beware the LibDems!

Ah that’s better now I have got it off my chest  and with thanks to John Redwoods own Web Pages!

http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/09/14/can-you-think-of-a-better-name-for-the-liberal-democrats/

Have a bash at this Fantasy Election 2010 Poll - Remember It's just fun!

Come on it is only for fun so cast your vote here and lets see if we can predict the result of the UK general election on the 6th May 2010....Remember it's for fun!   May the 8th you may be the lucky one to have tipped the balance?  (or if it's NOT a 'Hung Parliament' May the 7th).

An Election is on the way….

Frankly I can’t wait to see the back of this present government of mean minded, autocratic, “nannying”, hypocritical, bitter, spiteful, mealy mouthed bunch social engineers that have imposed a raft of politically correct policies and laws that have robbed us of our innate sense of fair play, our rights to a contrary opinion, indeed any opinion at all.  I want to eat what I want to, I want to decide for myself if I smoke or not, how much wine, beer or spirit I drink and even what sort of religious ornament I choose to wear.  I don’t want the rights of minorities who largely hate everything about our society to leave me with own rights made to seem as if they are criminal.  I don’t want some zealot to rob the pension funds of our hard working people, to sell the gold reserves of the country to some Eastern European (or any other European come to that) and leave our glorious nation the laughing stock of the world.  I don’t want to be ruled from some 21st century office building in Brussels.  I don’t want to live under a Government who despises the Monarch and fights a war on a poultry budget at the expense of our brave young men and women who  are sent on these foolish missions. 
I don’t want much to I?
But what I do want is a truly fair society where old values that were good for us in past decades remain so in new decades to come.  I want savers to be paid a fair interest on their hard earned savings.  I want our children to be treated as children again and not as some alternative species that can do what it likes when it likes at the expense of decency.  I want to see our fundamental values remembered and retained and I want to feel that it is NOT wrong to be British or English and that the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish are not somehow “better” than we English.  I want people in authority to be respected and decent people, women, older people and nurses to be treated with deference and not disdain.
I want a lot don’t I?
I also want to see everyone with a better basic education, to be able to spell correctly and know that it is NOT alright to speak your mind, that it’s not a positive thing to do so.  It is often rude and ill mannered to do so as it is to swear in front or people without restraint and let children do so too, unchallenged. 
Beards should be banned (perhaps with burkhas) and the “have not's” should stop blaming everyone else for not having what they want. 
sadly, I fear that none of these aspirations of mine will ever be realised.  One party will leave office and another arrive and sooner or later there will be countless revelations about some deed done years before or another run of sleaze or corruption…. and on it goes.
But please spare me a new “Class War” in this country where there are so many so called working class who think they are working class, dozens of Social Liberals who think they are middle class (but are upper or lower) – the upper classes don’t know who they are, only what they are!  I can’t face another torrent  of Champagne Socialism – we all know who they are – public school and university then into the “Social Engineering Workshop” of life. 
“Oh dear. How sad. Never mind” as the Sergeant Major in “It Aint Half Hot Mum” would say!