It lifted my heart yesterday when, with her concluding speech at the Tory Conference, Theresa May said:
“As a member of the government for the past 6 years, and at the heart of the decision-making process, I have to accept responsibility for the dire situation I now intend to resolve. I am sorry.”
Except, of course, she didn’t. There was no acknowledgement that she had been intimately involved for every problem, every lack of fairness, every lack of opportunity, every example of different rules for different people.
And yet, all of a sudden, trickle down economics is wrong. Industrial expansion led only by the private sector is wrong. Apparently, government can also invest in infrastructure because interest rates are at an all time low. Shame no-one spotted that before, or did they?
That speech was Labour-Lite, in all but name. Government investment, the exploitation and suffering of all but the few at the top, the imbalance in corporate governance. How about some original ideas?
Oh yes, grammar schools. Demonisation of foreign workers. That’s original, and guaranteed to bring people together.
Oh, and while we are talking about the Labour Party, or the new ‘nasty’ party, riven by divisions, let’s just get a little perspective here. We have just been through a sham of a referendum, tortured by lies, half-truths and prevarication, that happened because – and only because – your previous leader was terrified of the huge divisions within the Tory Party.
And the result? 37% of the electorate say we must leave the EU, and it suits you to go along with it, for now.
There is no honesty in your proposed programme, Theresa May. There is no honour in your stance as the supporter of the working classes. There is no truth in this change of direction.
Because, if there was, then this would have been said by you for the last 6 years, not just now when the two most visible architects of the pain are now all but disappeared, and certainly very quiet.
You can try to steal the ‘middle ground’, whatever that may be, by copying the intentions of the opposition, but you will be found out.
You will be found out because your party are not it’s natural bedfellows, because the actions won’t match the words, and because there is too much blood on your hands Lady Macbeth.
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