“The Liberal Democrats exist to build a fair, free, and open society in
which we seek to balance the fundamentals of liberty, equality, and community
and in which no one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance, or
conformity.”
So goes the LibDem pledge printed boldly on each and every one of their
membership cards. Laudable, noble, and admirable, it has now become empty,
crass, and utterly betrayed. It is by your actions that you are known and not by
what has proved to be hollow and mocking rhetoric.
Hollow and mocking it is too since they joined themselves at the hip to a
Tory Party hell-bent on the application of Malthusian economics and the
compulsory destitution of the poor. And as much as they protest innocence and
claim to be a restraining influence on Thatcher’s children, you can’t lay with
the devil and wear white.
They are an integral part of a government hell-bent on turning the poor into
an income stream for the rich. No ‘Mansion Tax’ for the rich yet a ‘Bedroom Tax’
for the poor. Cuts in benefits for the unemployed and cuts in taxes for
millionaires. Austerity for the many and comfort and increasing wealth for the
few. “Fair”? “Free”? “Equal”? “No one shall be enslaved by poverty….”? A soul
sold for what? Status? Power? Fame? 30 pieces of silver?
It has to be the most culpable betrayal of core principles in the history of
British politics for many a generation. At least with the Tory Party you know
they are inhuman and feed off fear, greed and their hatred of the masses they
regard as the undeserving poor. The LibDems laid claim to being different but
they have become an arm of a beast it once claimed to have detested. They have
become one.
There are huge storms coming and they will be a part of the maelstrom. “If
you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem”, it is said. They
and their Tory masters are not ‘part of the problem’ – they are the problem.
Graeme Beard.
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