So where do I start, I suppose that the rot really set in when we had an influx of DFL's. These people moved down to Ramsgate and set about educating the local yokels with their Lattes and Prosecco and other nouveau habits. Sadly they also imported their own particular brand of intolerance and bigotry.
A good example of this started with the iniquitous No Night Flights campaign. The people involved were mainly retired or wealthy DFL's who didnt want planes flying at any time and NNF was just an excuse to hang their prejudices on. The irony is that probably a lot of these people flew away on holidays to a nice villa in Tuscany or a sweet little Portugese village where the locals presumably cow towed to them thus feeding their superior attitude. Just not liking flying from the local airport as it disturbed their precious weekends. These NIMBYS slowly infested our Labour Party like some insidious cancer and systematically set about undermining all the work being done by local people to attract jobs and prosperity to Thanet.
Another consequence of DFL's is that they have driven property prices up beyond the reach of a lot of local people who now find that apart from the daily struggle to make ends meet they also have the worry of finding a home that they can afford on the piss poor wages on offer in Thanet generally.
These awful self righteous, self centered people also seem to belong in a culture of perpetually offended thin- skinned busy bodies constantly getting offended about something, someone or some group that did or said something and then demanding apology, followed by furious public outrage.
These people having slithered into a position of becoming candidates now also claim to be the candidates fighting for change, but actually what they are doing is rolling the clock back to the days of absentee MPs and rotten borough politics, when well-off people from London like them made decisions for everyone else and now they want to take us back to the days when ordinary people did not have proper local representation.
So for these reasons and others, I have cancelled my Labour Party membership and regrettably for the first time in nearly fifty years I shall not be voting Labour. I have always been a socialist and I believe in the principles of socialism. I have stood in successive elections on these principals and never failed to get elected, therefore I will continue to believe in them.
But
this lot?
I can’t, in all seriousness, go into a booth and put my mark
against any one of them.
Come
election day, I shall give my vote to another party. Almost any other
party. Or maybe more likely Ruth Brackstone until the Labour Party both locally and
nationally is once more led by people who at least pay lip service to
socialist principles.
22 comments:
Looking at the amount of bile on display here I'm surprised you're not voting Ukip.
Reading this made me realise the Ramsgate members were absolutely right to de-select you.
Lots of people including Labour go on about immigration, but the biggest damage to Thanet has been by DFLs who have no interest in the area other than imposing their own ideology. Time for us ALL to fight back!
I've got enormous admiration for you speaking up. The local party were right to deselect you - after all you are a man of integrity and they wouldn't want a good egg in a rotten barrel of corrupt self seeking self serving idiots who have no respect for the traditions and interests of the Labour movement and their constituents.
It seems you rattled the cages by the first two comments to your blog. Although I have been a life long conservative, I respect your beliefs and the strength of your conviction. At least you want what is best for the true locals.
You've cancelled your Labour membership on principle....after they've thrown you out?! Are you a total oaf? And why only now for you to speak up on corrupt Labour? What corruption has been going on?
It seems the only oaf in this conversation is you. I wasnt thrown out, I was deselected, you probably need to look it up in a dictionary to find out what it means.
I remained a paid up member. And I dont think I mentioned the word corrupt, if I did it related to politically corrupt, you will probably also need to look up the meaning of that as well.
Quibbling becomes you Mike.
You were thrown out, deselected, booted out, services not required, sacked etc etc.
And in a temper tantrum you've now quit the party yourself and rounded on all your comrades.
Who are the DFLers that stabbed you in the back? Iris? Green? Alexandrou?
You mention corruption, and repeat the point, as do several people here: what corruption is there? Pleasurama? Manston? Corrupt politicians?
Speak up O Wise One.
Well Done Mike harrison.You have said it as it is. This {Anonymous} person has not even got the guts to give his own name.Margaret Cheek
What has Mike said as it is Margaret? DFLs? Work done by local people to attract jobs? Socialism? What? Youve put your name but no opinion! And your name sounds false.
Barry Bumcheek
My name is Margaret Cheek. Maiden name is Foreman. So you can look me up.I cannot bear injustice which is why i am so angry about Ann Gloag and her henchmen.The airport is our biggest asset.KLM's flights to Schiphol were a boon for business here and if properly run would make an great difference to the real prosperity of our towns . In fact my husband was in mid flight to the States when the airport was closed much to the great annoyance of KLM. 4 hours back from Heathrow.No modern business will locate here without easy access to an airport.
Never heard of you Margaret nor do I want to look for you thanks. But you support the airport not Mikes socialism? The airport is bust yet again so hardly an asset. KLM flights were half empty hence the plug being pulled by them and your husband redirected to the worlds busiest airport just up the road...
The reality is Manston was a cargo airport and maybe some holiday flights to keep the yokels quiet while the cancer wards filled up.
Dear Anonymous 19.11,
Having read and reread what is written above I can find no reference to corruption. I would be interested to know what your obsession with corruption is and where it comes from.
You asked who I was so i have told you. Just who are you? Have you tried to get to Gatwick and Heathrow twice a week from here? This is what modern business people need to do.And you would prefere a vast housing estate, We have little water here in Thanet for a start.Ann Gloag simply does not care about jobs or people. She is the worst sort of capitalist.
I don't want an argument I just want you to wake up and bat for the good people like Mike Harrison and stop being so rude.
I didn't ask for your name I just said it sounded false. And you're bandying insults around about guts and henchmen. Getting to Heathrow and Gatwick by car or train is a doddle. And since when did every business require to be near an airport? Hairdressers? I never mentioned a housing estate you did I was talking about the airport. And there's lots of water at the coast? Are you being deliberately random? Gloag is a wonderful businesswoman creating jobs on the buses etc. And recognises a crap airport when she sees one
Mike 11:18 refers to corrupt Labour and you refer to rotten boroughs which are corrupt and refer to politcally corrupt Labour. Like you I am concerned about my corrupt council as a taxpayer and seeing thr leader jailed etc. Is Labour more corrupt than Tories at TDC?
Ann Gloag has destroyed every business in her way including her own husbands. She has destroyed the lives of many.No point in bothering to argue with you.
Just Well Done people like Mike Harrison is my last word
I must conclude you are an idiot Margaret if you can't explain why Gloag has destroyed her businesses so as to become Britains richest woman. An idiot and too lazy to travel more than 20 minutes to an airport.
No need to be rude 22:23.
Seems merely factual 06:54. I hate going shopping so could Tesco be financed by tax to build a store near my house?
As you well know, KLM did not pull the plug. They were forced out by Gloag, much to their annoyance. The election result confirms that the vast majority of voters want the airport to reopen.
Thanks Mike, good to hear your feelings, and how it echos along with the electorate. Labour are in dire straits as I predicted before the election. I dont feel happy about this, but Labour just has to do better and be better disciplined.
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