MAY 2015 GENERAL ELECTION

 

A government should be able, in part at least, to stand on its record when seeking re-election. One consistent theme to the present election is that people are cynical about vote-catching. Ordinary people have no confidence that the promises being freely made are likely to be carried through.


The Tories made a series of important promises prior to the last election. They promised, as did Labour and the Liberal Democrats, to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. They promptly dishonoured that. Instead we have been fobbed off with a promise that there would be another promise in this election campaign that the Tories would hold a referendum in 2017 – if they form a majority government. Since it is almost certain to be a coalition government then this promise is highly suspect and completely worthless if it is Labour who are putting together the coalition.


The Tories made a variety of hints and promises about English Votes for English Laws, repealing the so-called Human Rights Act, eliminating the government deficit, closing quangos, re-balancing the economy, sorting out the banks, etc., etc. - yet none of it has happened. Instead of these problems being solved they continue to get worse and yet more problems arise.


Then there is immigration. The Tory 'policy' [it was always a con] was to focus on net immigration and reduce that to tens of thousands. That of course requires that the numbers leaving the country are known, which they are not, and that there is nothing wrong with immigration, no matter where from, provided that sufficient indigenous English leave. In any event, the Tories have failed to spectacularly and net immigration is running at something like 300,000 a year.


We are supposed to believe that the Tories have actually tried to reduce immigration. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is even looked upon as a right-winger. Illegal immigration continues apace. We are supposed to believe that the resources available to the British state, the border guards, police, armed forces, the legal system, the tax revenues, etc., and the existence of the English Channel, are insufficient to enable the government to secure the borders. We are supposed to assume that those organized crime rackets and terrorist networks that are smuggling illegal immigrants into Britain are too powerful. It is almost as if these people smugglers are James Bond super-villains with their own private army, satellites, underwater vessels and the odd bodyguard with super strength too. They are not super-villains. We are dealing with some low-life squatting in a tent outside Calais who is charging illegal immigrants to use his patch to break into Britain – with more assistance for more fees.


Yet we are supposed to believe that these low-lives are too powerful for the British state to cope with. This is tripe. What is lacking is the will to stop immigration. Drunk with political correctness and desperate to show-off their human rights credentials, the Tories are just too snooty to do their jobs properly.


Instead of standing on their record, the Tories are making suggestive moves to lure the voters. A bit of leg about an EU referendum; some cleavage about being concerned about immigration; some twerking about English Votes for English Laws. The Tories are cavorting around like drunken strippers.