by ionnsaigh » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:06 am
Steady on now... this was the Socialist leader of the Working Class, he brought a ray of hope to the millions of poor and disadvantaged in this society. When the band played things can only get better, I knew we where in for a rough ride.
( a couple of wars later )
Makes one wonder how many Working Class Labour Party MPs are there ? One things for sure, most of these careerists belong to the professional Middle Class. How many have suffered the indignity of signing on, and receiving meager unemployment benefit, that wouldn't keep a horse for a week - never mind a family. How many struggle to pay for ridiculously high energy bills or pay the rent ?
They call this system a parliamentary democracy - yet for the Working Class - the concept of self representation through an elected spokesperson, is nothing more than deception. I hold the Middle Class Labour Party guilty of high treason.
The Labour Party and it's horde of chattering classes, should do the poor a favour, by getting to feck.
The poor require a voice that has experienced hardship, otherwise there is little truth in representation, it's a wee bit like Adolf Hitler being voted to represent the Jews, the whole thing is totally ludicrous.
How many times do we get to vote in a lifetime Ten... or some despicably low number.. it's a bit like the old Christian adage - be patient - there's pie in the sky when you die.
What is required is fundamental change to an economic system.. that undoubtedly creates the false manifestations of having too much and having too little. Each are inexplicably dependent on the other, both sides of the same coin.
Poverty in Scotland is like a malignant cancer spreading throughout the body.. it requires urgent removal by whatever means, are at our disposal.. if that requires the scalpel.. then so be it.
O'Donnchadha