Les miserables - Labour's misery

 If I cast my mind back to 1997, Tony Blair entered government to  fanfare of positivity.  His adopted anthem of D:Ream Things Can Only Get Better echoing through the corridors of power.

Tony was always positive, smiling.  I can't say I remember him fondly.  I'm still spitting feathers over Tony's then Chancellor Gordon Brown stealing £60k from my pension claiming I was the subject to pensions windfall tax for holding BT shares - annoying as BT was our biggest customer hence the company pension fund bought into BT.  Still at least Tony was smiling when he stole it from me.  Not once did he call me greedy.

Anyway - the general population was upbeat despite Robin Hood Blair stealing from the not so rich and giving it to his Labour buddies (cronies nowadays). We genuinely believed things could get better.

Then Miserable Brown came to power from Grinning Blair. He was always miserable.  Then things got worse as he trashed the economy.  We all became miserable.

We loved Boris.  Ok the guy is an idiot but he was happy and so were we. Having parties and making us laugh with his buffoonery.  Rishi wanted us to enjoy ourselves too and paid for us to eat out.  Rishi was always happy, positive and optimisic - why else would have called a July election.

Now if I look at Killjoy Starmer he's a real barrel of misery.  He doesnt smile or talk positively. 

His normal vocabulary is "punish", "painful", "woeful", "greedy", "taxes".  Did I mention "painful"?

Killjoy Starmer is a total Socialist/Communist.  He is miserable and wants everyone else to be miserable just like him. A problem shared is not a problem halved.  It's misery doubled.

Killjoy reminds me of a  Harry Enfield character - "Oi you.  Do you like smoking a fag with your beer in a freezing pub beer garden? No you cant do that. I'll ban all the vices you like"

Angela Rayner has had to flee to Ibiza to have fun and dance - she knows dancing will be banned (or at least heavily taxed) in the forthcoming Autumn budget. 

I did briefly wonder whether this is a clever ploy.  Make us all feel really depressed and low about all the taxation and pain they are planning to launch upon us in the Autumn Budget and then only make it half as painful as they are saying and we come away really happy that it wasnt as PAINFUL as we thought it was going to be.

Too late I feel miserable anyway thanks to Killjoy.

Killjoy will make us all miserable.  Want to grow the economy - like Labour wants?  If you're miserable and despondent - are you motivated to work harder in order to grow the economy and benefit from our hard work?  No - I feel too depressed to work harder. Killjoy announces "You must work harder - the economy is crashing because of the greedy pensioners"  -  OK I might work a bit harder to help out  - ouch what's all this extra tax - how come I'm worse off than if I didn't work harder.  Sod it - I won't bother.

Welcome to Killjoy's world. 

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

WINSTON CHURCHILL

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Well it seems the Labour leadership have woken up to the excessive doom and despair rhetoric.  Starmer seems to have realised that he sounds like Private Frazer out of Dad's Army "We're Doomed".

Apparently there is now light at the end of the tunnel and we can now all be optimistic? 

Really?  What have they done to put the house in order?  They have increased public spending by £9Bn per year (probably more than that as the gold plated civil servant pensions will be an increased liability by my guess another £4Bn - but that's not a problem for this term of office).  Nurses are probably going to go on strike as their pay offer is woeful compared to the Junior Doctor settlement.

There have not been cuts to pubic spending - in fact Rachel has promised "No austerity".  The tax rises will not yield what they think.  It might this year but there's only so many capital gains "windfalls" you can get off the public - dont expect them to be every year.  But the expenditure so far is an ongoing year-on-year  liability.  More fiscal blackholes lie ahead.

Starmer has demoralised the population spreading his doom and gloom message.  I think he massively under estimates how difficult it will be to motivate and energise the public to get behind him.  It's clear that being motivational is not the natural face of Starmer nor his gloomy cabinet.  I suspect the light at the tunnel is actually an express train heading towards Starmer.  The outlook in the USA is weakening - a recession in the USA is looking likely which will doubtless cause turmoil in the UK.   

A balanced budget doesnt exist - it's just a matter of how much they want to borrow yet National Debt is spiralling out of control.