More woes for Labour.

Things have been far from well with Her Majesty’s Opposition for many years, lack of leadership, wrong leaders elected, thieving MP’s sent to prison, a new scandal gets added to the increasing list almost daily. Then there is the political positioning, having taken a gigantic lurch to the left with the appointment of Brown, followed by the hapless Milliband, they find themselves on the wrong side of just about every argument from the Economy, to Human Rights, to Education and this week Policing and Sentencing. The shadow Foreign Secretary managed to jump onto the wrong side of the Libiyan bandwagon and Milliband has the less than enviable ability to jump in with both feet on the wrong side on just about every occasion.

Then just when the Labour party thought it couldn’t get much worse, the former Chancellor and traitor, Alistair Darling, comes up with the obligatory book charting his time as puppet to Brown. The explosive revelations that Gordon Brown was a psychopathic bully and control freak won’t come as any surprise, but the internecine warfare going on within the party is now exposed for the rest of the world to see.

All the way through the financial crash, that was made much worse by the already profligate spending put in place by Brown when he was Chancellor under Blair, the Labour government were more interested in fighting each other than they were in trying to sort out the problems of the country.

There was absolutely no trust between PM and chancellor, to the extent that Brown’s chief bully boy’s wife was sent to the treasury to keep an eye on Darling, what a state of affairs. Smug thug Ed Balls, chief deficit denier, and his pernicious wife Yvette Cooper, spent most of their time scheming and plotting to oust Darling as chancellor, only to find that levering Balls into the position would have been so unpopular within the Labour ranks, it would have toppled the already mortally wounded Brown.

So they were left in a position where the Chancellor was too weak to introduce the measures that were desperately needed and a Prime Minister too weak to sack his chancellor, what a sorry state of affairs!!

The truth of the disastrous Labour years is beginning to emerge a piece at a time, Blair describing dealing with Brown as “like having a tooth extracted without anaesthetic”, the decision to make Brown PM was not taken because he was the best man for the job, but instead because he plotted and schemed against anyone that may have stood against him, with Balls foremost in the scheming stakes.

Then after choosing the wrong brother as leader, and an innumerate as Chancellor, we get Balls back at the helm once again, pulling the strings and getting his own way.

And what a tour de force he has been, in the few short months that he has been shadow Chancellor, Labour have reversed every policy that they had proposed to try to deal with the huge deficit that they left behind.  The last Darling plan was for the deficit to be halved over the lifetime of the parliament, the coalition plan is more ambitious than that; however the difference between the two plans is fairly marginal. For every £8 of savings promoted by the coalition, the former Labour plan would have saved £7, however now, Labour have no plan whatsoever to deal with the huge debt mountain that the country is struggling under, in the last week, the final proposed saving of 12% in the police has been dropped.

So Balls continues his “too far too fast “mantra about the coalition deficit reduction plan, without any sort of plan at all to deal with it. His course of no action would mean that this country would lose its credit rating, borrowing would be more expensive, and we would rapidly find ourselves in the same position as Greece and Portugal having to go cap in hand to the IMF for a bailout. The man has no shame and no ideas.

So where are we with the current Labour party, its donors have deserted it in droves, it is more or less bankrupt and only survives because the Unions pump money into it so that they can hold the strings of their puppet MP’s, they have no policies worth repeating, and the internecine warfare continues.  They now face a cap on donations, which if implemented by Parliament, will limit how much any Union can bribe their MP’s with. Each individual union member will have to donate separately, and we will easily see just how small their support is when that comes through.

Just to cap things off, we hear that former MP and Blair babe Jaqui Smith, possibly the worst Home Secretary in history, whose husband put porn films on her expenses, is not satisfied with fleecing the taxpayer to the tune of £116,000 by claiming that her sisters spare bedroom was her “main residence” so she could claim for all the expenses for her actual home in Redditch, has been found to have invited convicted felons into her home, whilst serving prison sentences, to carry out some light re-decoration, free of charge of course!

Perhaps they watched some of her husband's porn collection while they were there!