In praise of our Government (?)

In praise of our Government.

Or, what has New Labour done for us.

• Robbed the UK of its private pensions by raiding the pension schemes - whilst maintaining the pension scheme for MPs
• Lied to us over Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Sent our armed forces into Iraq after being informed it had no legal basis
• Hounded Dr. Kelly to his death because he would not follow the party line on Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Sent the armed forces into Iraq and Afghanistan, but forgot to equip them
• Brought us Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman, the Dark Lord Mandelson, Alastair Campbell, and John Prescott
• Sold our gold reserves at the bottom of the market
• Presided over the massive recession and drove the country into debt that will last a generation to pay for it 
• Gave away our sovereignty as of 1st December 2009 when the Lisbon Treaty came into force
• Made the President of Europe our head of state
• Put our Prime Minister in a position where he is now obliged to promote the aims and objectives of the European Union over and above those of the United Kingdom
• Gave control of our financial institutions to (French) EU Regulators.
• Signed up to the Human Rights act without realising the real beneficiaries are solicitors and criminals
• Promised a referendum on the EU Constitution then reneged when it was renamed
• Neutered the House of Lords so there are no checks and balances on their legislation
• Disenfranchised thousands of children from university places by setting quotas that selected candidates based on background not education
• Charged students for the University education that previous generations had for free and thus plunged them into years of debt
• Set up secret "courts" to dispose of the assets of elderly patients
• Imposed unelected regional assemblies, after a referendum on the subject voted against them
• Presided over a greater erosion of the UK's Industrial Base than any previous Government (yes even more than Mrs Thatcher's).

And they created a country where:

• A country where you can be followed home and reported to social services for chastising your child in public.
• You are watched by CCTV cameras everywhere you go
• You can be prosecuted for speaking freely
• Council snoopers can wander round your house
• You can be taxed for improving your house without any warrant or judicial intervention
• You can be taxed for you view
• The Civil Service are rewarded for spending their annual budget - not saving it.
• Political correctness forms a destructive cancer at the heart of our society:

Political Correctness (def.) - a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
(with acknowledgements to the original author - whoever that was)

• The police can take your DNA for any reason (even a simple traffic stop) and store it for up to 6 years even if you are entirely innocent of any wrong-doing.
• If you ever see a child (or expect that you might see a child - even in the distance) you must have criminal checks.
• You get Government TV adverts about reducing CO2 presented as a series of facts - which are unproven

But hey, don't forget:

• You can sue other people for your own stupidity or clumsiness
• You can be given a flat or house for getting pregnant
• There's no need to work for a living
• You can suppress scientific opinion with libel laws