They showed a clip of the 1945 Labour party manifesto on Russia Today today and it was amazing. What a great party it was, what courage its leadership had, what service they had to the people and the nation. How different it was to the North London liberal oxbridge elite we see today.
Here are just some of the amazing things that Labour then offered. No wonder they won the election then, they deserved it because they served the people.
"The Labour Party stands for freedom - for freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the Press. The Labour Party will see to it that we keep and enlarge these freedoms, and that we enjoy again the personal civil liberties we have, of our own free will, sacrificed to win the war. The freedom of the Trade Unions, denied by the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927, must also be restored. But there are certain so-called freedoms that Labour will not tolerate: freedom to exploit other people; freedom to pay poor wages and to push up prices for selfish profit; freedom to deprive the people of the means of living full, happy, healthy lives."
How different from today. just recently Labour were the party that restricted the people's civil liberties and even wanted to bring in biometric ID cards and DNA databases for the people. In 1945 Labour championed "free speech", now only one party champions that and they never even existed in 1945.
"The nation needs a tremendous overhaul, a great programme of modernisation and re-equipment of its homes, its factories and machinery, its schools, its social services.
All parties say so - the Labour Party means it. For the Labour Party is prepared to achieve it by drastic policies and keeping a firm constructive hand on our whole productive machinery; the Labour Party will put the community first and the sectional interests of private business after."
"They say, "Full employment. Yes! If we can get it without interfering too much with private industry." We say, "Full employment in any case, and if we need to keep 8 firm public hand on industry in order to get jobs for all, very well. No more dole queues, in order to let the Czars of Big Business remain kings in their own castles. The price of so-called 'economic freedom' for the few is too high if it is bought at the cost of idleness and misery for millions."
What will the Labour Party do?
First, the whole of the national resources, in land, material and labour must be fully employed. Production must be raised to the highest level and related to purchasing power. Over-production is not the cause of depression and unemployment; it is under-consumption that is responsible. It is doubtful whether we have ever, except in war, used the whole of our productive capacity. This must be corrected because, upon our ability to produce and organise a fair and generous distribution of the product, the standard of living of our people depends.
Secondly, a high and constant purchasing power can be maintained through good wages, social services and insurance, and taxation which bears less heavily on the lower income groups."
www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml
What a brilliant party, what a brilliant time, what brilliant people. They were a party of hope of the future of the people who controlled the elites and made sure they served the people. They were for growth, progress, industrialisation, economic productivity, invention, employment and the people. How different to today's Climate Change Act which will limit our industrial expansion and put a tax on growth.
It is sad to look at what was and what is now. I hope Danczuk does become labour leader and toplles the North London liberal elite. If he does he will do the whole country a favour and he will once again win for Labour the people's vote.