I see John Prescott has tried to attack the Conservative Party for one of it’s latest videos on the history and progressive nature of the party. It seems however, that he’s not even trying anymore! With a few words, John somehow manages to sum up precisely why no one trust Labour anymore. He makes a statement, mocks George Osborne, but doesn’t back it up with any meaningful justification of his position. Instead, he links to a shoddy video which vilifies that Tories for legacy issues (miners strike, minimum wage, yesteryear’s taxation policy). I think if John did the math, however – he’d realise why his chum Gordon Brown hasn’t upped the top tax rate to 80% for high-earners. Progressive, John? Here’s something you ought to read, taken straight out of the world-acclaimed, “Atlas Shrugged,” as part of a longer speech found here.
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world?’ You are.
“You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it’s crumbling around you, while you’re damning its life-blood – money. You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities. Throughout men’s history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor. That phrase about the evil of money, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when wealth was produced by the labor of slaves – slaves who repeated the motions once discovered by somebody’s mind and left unimproved for centuries. So long as production was ruled by force, and wealth was obtained by conquest, there was little to conquer. Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers – as industrialists.
It’s funny, really. Labour have supported and inherited big business as long as the results of it lines their politicians’ pockets, but on a grander scale- day after day, the party are stifling the market, harassing and haranguing the individual entrepreneur, and condemning our youth to a lifetime of debt and expectancy. It’s time for change, folks.
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