The Labour Party, the two Eds, the two B's

Ok. Being a politician brings many challenges.

Not the least of them is how you balance personal ambition with the public good.

And then there's the further tightrope walk of representing your constituency and toeing the party line.

And just to make it interesting there are the power games within the party.

Which brings us to today's revelations about the two Eds - Balls and Milliband.

And the two B's,  Blair and Brown.

Despite all denials, it was obvious Brown and Co. Ltd wanted to take over, indeed put out of business, Blair and Co Ltd.

But the denials still came - party unity, that electoral Eldorado, was promoted, insisted upon, demonstrably (so they said) solid, and the Brown v Blair was a healthy competition rather than a hostile takeover.

And then The Telegraph publishes memos which read like the blueprint for a coup d'etat, complete with process, rationale and timescale.

And the denials still come, and then the two Eds both say its ancient history and we must look to the future not the past.

Excuse me?

Since when was five years ago ancient history/

And why should we now trust the two Eds who clearly scripted their own amateur version of Julius Caesar, complete with back-stabbing scenes and public declarations of loyalty that resonated with anti-integrity?

My problem is simple. When did it become acceptable to lie, to plot against others, to lie, to carry out the coup, to lie, to gain the goal of power in the party, and then when the lies are exposed, to call it ancient history and therefore irrelevant.

So now having disposed of that teeny wee piece of petty minded nonsense called evidence (the memos) by labelling them a distraction, we are now to pay attention to what is being said by the two Eds.

Sorry. one of the important lessons ancient history teaches us is not to make the same mistake twice.

Which we would do if we trusted the two Eds.

For the record - I am not anti-Labour.

I am however for integrity.

And I insist that as a voter my moral perception, common sense and social intelligence be taken seriously.

And I can smell cynicism from a mile away, let alone when it is waved in my face.

What Ed (both of them) needs to remember is they too will soon be ancient history.

 

Comments

[Perpetua]

A trenchant summary and one with which I entirely agree - and I'm no anti-Labour either. To be honest, it sometimes feels as though 5 months, let alone 5 years, is ancient histroy for some public figures. Sigh....

[Radical Believer]

Of course, if your ambition is high and at least some of your morality is low, then the end - power - justifies the means - dishonesty. It's a sad indictment of the quality of our political leaders, but, with the levels of political apathy displayed by the UK population, we probably have the government and opposition that we deserve.