Friday 20 August 2010

Scorched Earth

Capitalists@Work has been running an interesting series on how the Labour government scorched the earth, not just in terms of slashing and burning the money, but also in terms of the legal landmines they left behind.

Not only profligate with someone else's money, but devious and vicious in making it as difficult as possible to pick up the pieces.

Of course, if the coalition was serious about the "great reform bill", it would be the work of a week to list every bit of legislation created by New Labour and quite simply repeal the fucking lot. If there was anything useful, it could almost certainly be re-drafted (better) and re-voted upon.

But, of course, they aren't. They're just a bunch of makeweights and dullards playing the game of politics, posturing as emptily and vacuously as the mad Scot or the cunto di tutti cunti did before him.

Useless cock-suckers.

10 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Very true.

Mark Wadsworth said...

I am a can't-be-arsed-to-carry-on-blogging cunt.

Kingbingo said...

I agree. But the reason they don’t is because most of those stupid new laws called in the creation of a shed load of jobs attached to whatever new agency was formed to police this new law. If they repeal all these laws on mass they also have to sack people in what would look like an arbitrary way. The press will be able to find a few dozen examples of where from the public’s point of view where it does not make sense. Or appear quite perverse and they will hound the collation with these stories of nonsensical government etc.

So instead of the broadsword they have to use the scalpel. At every point thinking through the press response.

That will be difficult for guy like you to get your head around Obnoxio as you generally don’t care if you upset people. But if politicians don’t managed the story they don’t stick around long, then they don’t get to do anything at all. There is no point repealing all of Labours laws on mass if it gets you thrown out of power and a new lefter Labour comes back and puts them all right back again. Especially under any of the blatant trots now lining up for leadership.

CityUnslicker said...

Thanks for the link Obo.

I agree at least 70% of new labour laws could be repealed - sadly 80% came direct from Europe and we are not allowed to repeal them or else we'll get invaded!

Sigh...

Kingbingo said...

“sadly 80% came direct from Europe and we are not allowed to repeal them or else we'll get invaded!”

My first reaction was bring it on, The French? Don’t make me laugh. The Germans, they tried that twice already and got a bloody nose.

But then I got thinking well last time they tried the British working class, aka the British tommy was fighting fit and used to a life of actually working for a living. Can you imagine commanding a unit of fat chavs who are all talk, but terrified of any real fighting, unless they outnumber their opponent 8 to one they can preamble the fight by glassing them in the face in a hole of a nightclub.

Jesus, if the Germans did kick off again we would be fucked.

Obnoxio The Clown said...

Fuck that, KB. They're going to piss someone off at every fucking step of the way. They're going to be fighting that kind of message no matter how carefully they cut.

So I don't buy it. They should have walked in, made a list of all Labour legislation, rolled the whole fucking lot back in one bang shoot and started again. Yes, there would have been an uproar, but after a month, it would all have been over, most of the electorate would not have noticed any fucking difference and it would have subsided.

This way they have to fight it for as long as they're in power.

Kingbingo said...

“They should have walked in, made a list of all Labour legislation, rolled the whole fucking lot back in one bang shoot and started again. Yes, there would have been an uproar, but after a month, it would all have been over, most of the electorate would not have noticed any fucking difference and it would have subsided.”

I agree, there would be an uproar but it will be no worse than they were going to get anyway, it’s not like the left has a variable outrage meter, its stuck on ‘full’ all the time. I also spend the best part of a Sunday before the election making this exact point to a (now) minister.

However, I’m just telling you what they think. They have been left emotionally vulnerable after 3 election defeats, they think this is actually a socialist country and they have to travel with extreme caution.

Bayard said...

"But the reason they don’t is because most of those stupid new laws called in the creation of a shed load of jobs attached to whatever new agency was formed to police this new law. "

Which was presumably the reason for passing them in the first place. The actual law didn't really matter, which was why they were so badly drafted.
Thatcher sold council houses to create homeowners who'd vote Tory, Blair and Brown invented non-jobs to create public employees who'd vote Labour.

Kingbingo said...

I don’t know if in either case the effect of the cause was conscious from the start Bayard, but yes, most definitely.

CityUnslicker said...

For once Sarah Palin has the right attitude - Kickin' as and taking names was the way to start.