New Labour at Bay

The government of the United Kingdom has now lost contact with democracy completely. An unelected prime minister, backed by a party funded by public sector trade unions, and surrounded by a cabal of advisers and appointees is indebting us all for almost a trillion pounds with no intention whatever of consulting the electorate on his repeated failures to run a sound economic policy.

The aggression displayed towards Iceland in listing it among terrorist organisations and sequestering its banks trading in the United Kingdom makes plain that the powers to act with authoritarian arbitrariness are there to be used in circumstances very different from their ostensible purpose when they were driven through our Parliament. Any attempt to protest this regime is going to be met with the same levels of aggression and vindictiveness.

Foreign policy is floating in a miasma of delusion and indecision. The main goal has been to reach the inauguration of the new American president in the unfounded belief that the United States will follow policies that will vindicate the failing policies that are destroying our country's future. When this vision of the future is dispelled as completely as every other part of Brown's vision, we will have to recognise that we live in a deindustrialised, poverty-stricken, under-developed country, whose post-democratic administration will be as an uninfluential, peripheral region of Europe. In the mean time we must go through years of depression while New Labour's madness unravels.