Who Goes Home?

David Chaplin chairman of the Young Fabians and occasional contributor to LabourList has managed to provide us with yet more evidence that, in opposition, Labour are failing miserably to defend their appalling record of economic disasters.

Chaplin believes there must be a way of duping the British public, industry and markets into thinking Labour know what’s best for the country! He says on LabourList…

“On the Andrew Marr show this week Alistair Darling was finding it difficult to answer the question, “what wouldn’t you cut?” Labour now needs to think clearly about what it proposes to do in order to calm the clear concerns amongst some sections of industry.”

What leads any socialist to the conclusion they know how to solve our economic problems, especially when it was a socialist government that presided over the biggest deficit in peacetime history? A government that went on a ’scorched earth policy’ months before the general election signing unaffordable contracts and writing huge cheques to industry to buy votes in marginal seats. The cuts in public services now being contemplated by George Osborne are a direct result of feckless gerrymandering through Labour adding one million unnecessary jobs in the Labour-voting public sector in the past 13 years.

Chaplin can try as hard as he likes, but how can they ever defend a record which has crashed the UK’s economy into a brick wall twice in the past 40 years and walked away with the keys still in the ignition?

As if a Labour politician might be able to somehow justify their history of  financial incompetence. Chaplin also attempts to smear the new government with accusations of  re-writing history….

But the new government will try and re-write history and create a lasting image of Labour as the party who lost control of public finances and put our economy at risk. We know from Labour’s past that this is an old trick of the right-wing press, and in some cases it was a valid argument. But not so in 2010. Labour shadow ministers need to defend the actions taken during the global economic crisis; recognise where any mistakes were made; and set out a credible and alternative plan to reduce the deficit which is clear to people who are worried about our national debt and their family’s futures.

Since judiciously ousted from government, ex-ministers have attacked the new coalition each time they have announced measures to deal with Labour’s debt-crisis, yet have offered nothing in return except more spending and more accrued debt. Alistair Darling, David Miliband and Ed Balls have all distanced themselves from Gordon Brown’s ruinous policies since 1997, yet they offer nothing new, just scorn and contempt for anyone with genuine intentions of putting right the UK economic train crash which Chaplin’s socialist comrades so obscenely created.

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