Fair for all?
Am I the only one who feels that their intelligence is being insulted with Labour's campaign theme for the upcoming election?
Maybe it shouldn't matter, because in this neck of the woods of course we cannot vote for them or agin them, but on every news bulletin we will be forced to listen to earnest self-serving expenses cheats lecturing us on how Labour will create this "future fair for all". This is a bit rich coming from the geniuses who created our "past and current free for all" that is currently ruining the competitive capability of Northern Ireland and the wider UK.
All together now!
I have a better idea for their campaign refrain, and this has a much better chance of being delivered. Plus it has a cracking good tune!
"In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
There's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep round ev'ry night
Where the workshops are all empty
And the sun shines ev'ry day
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall and the wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
Oh, the buzzin' of the bees in the peppermint trees
'Round the soda water fountains
Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains"
Whose idea was it to give him that new smile?
I can just see Gordon singing it with that newly manufactured gruesome X -factor smile on his face.
Message to the PM
Gordon, life is not, never has been and never will be "fair". And certainly not "fair for all", because one person's fairness is another person's oppression. For example.
Is it fair that public sector workers are paid 40% more than those in the private sector?
Is it fair that while not all those on benefit are there by choice, many are.
Is it fair that your government colludes with thousands of "economically inactive" shirkers who choose not to work while laying the burden for their support on hard working people?
I could go on and on.
A future fair for all?
Fact - life is not fair. This Labour promise sounds very like "the buzzin of the bees".
The best hope for Gordon, and not an entirely unlikely one at that, is that Cameron's crowd pick an even more unrealistic and patronising theme.
4 comments:
Can't work out the tune Will!!
You are right, we are going to have to listen to a lot from these 'earnest' people between now and May.
CP. Just google Burl Ives and you've got it!
It's a good strap line, "a future fair for all" but who pays for it? You're right Will, Labour are insulting our intelligence. A fairer future would be if Labour stopped penalising the wealth earners in GB & NI, particularly the SME businesses. Let's cut taxes and overhaul the benefits system.
Willo, try to look *behind* the slogan. I bet Edwin Poots was kicking himself for not thinking in a more Prime Ministerial mode - instead of worrying about *sacking* incompetent civil servants, he could have been *smacking* them.
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