This Labour administration has governed without regard to the integrity of British democracy, considering itself above such things - rather as President Nixon did. It has blackmailed, it has politically corrupted civil servants - appointing those who toe to the party political line -, it has made government spokesmen into Labour Party spokesmen, it promised a referendum on the European treaty and then broke its promise, it has distorted statistics and now we learn that it opened the door to immigration without ever consulting the British people. For details, still not wholly confirmed but very easy to believe, here.

Previous Labour governments had policies on tax, spending, unions and national ownership with which I strongly disagreed. But people like Clement Attlee were fundamentally very decent people who believed in the rule of law and the integrity of British democracy. The leadership of New Labour are not such people. They think their ends are so superior that they justify pushing aside such considerations. Or rather, they think they themselves are so superior that they are above such things.

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Politics

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