5 More Years Of Sisyphean Labour?

So much - nay all - of political discourse is conducted inside the box, at least on the mainstream media (is there any other) that you get the distinct and sinister impression of living in a one party State listening to it.

Will no one think outside the box? It is assumed for example that the only way to 'do' health care and education is via the State and politicans, even though the overwhelming evidence that confronts us every day is that politicians are the last people to entrust with such valued things. Why this closed and hermetic dialogue, with all light and glimmer of another way excluded?

An opportunity for the Conservatives to offer an alternative to Socialism lies before it but apart from a brief interregnum in the 80's this opportunity has been willfully spurned in favour of a spineless acquiescence with all the premises of that evil creed ( even the free marketer Thatcher felt compelled to say " the NHS is safe in our hands")

To this day this playing ball with collectivism is the Conservatives MO and it reaps them nothing but derision and distrust. This loss of nerve and obsession with consensus politics is verging on the pathological.

Perhaps nothing short of total anhiliation at the polls on May 5th will make them seek a different course and return to core values. After all it was none other than Winston Churchill who nailed Socialism as the evil bacillus it is. He warned the British in 45' that embracing it in the form of the Welfare State was tantamount to embracing Nazism - National Socialism - and he was spot on.

Lulled by the promise of Bread and Circuses the British weren't listening and we have all payed the price ever since. No one questions the hallowed tenets of Welfarism and there is nowhere its scaly tentacles do not reach. The death of ideology has been wildly exaggerated -it is alive and well and all parties appear to be worshipping at the same altar of collectivism.

This present election campaign has been depressingly devoid of values and principles other than said collectivism and even for the limited flawed system of Democracy this is an egregious and worrying development.