01/06/2010: "labour control freaks"

in my last post i quoted from greg pope's (labour MP for hyndburn) website/blog, from a post he put on there arguing about gordon brown's manipulation and smearing of opponents within his own party, to secure the leadership for himself.

after the events of the last 24 hours, that i have experienced, i would surmise that its not just the labour leadership that are control freaks!

greg pope's son also posts to his blog, and one such post, on equality, in which he makes the - all too common - sweeping statement "since May 1997 the poorest in society have grown more affluent.
to be fair he was specifically refering to people's finances and not material goods, so i posted a comment that pointed out a few inaccuracies with this view and pointed out the vast numbers of people are being subsidised in some form by the taxpayer. i also asked how any increase in wages or money given is often ofset, in the case of the poorest in society, by a reduction in their housing or council tax benefit, so they of course are financially unchanged, but now have to work xx amount of hours per week to do this. i highlighted also other aspects of inequality that are on the increase, such as the way the courts are being manipulated and influenced indirectly by the government he supports, when making decisions that affect thousands of people, such as the supreme court and the overdraft fees ruling.
(the new goverment bonus tax came not 2 weeks after the supreme court ruled against all other courts verdicts on oft v banks on overdraft charges, and by an amazing coincidence, raises almost the exact same revenue for the government, that the banks would have had to refund to customers who had been charged incorrectly!)

i posted the comment, it showed up on the blog, then i did something else.
today whilst having a quick brew, i log in to the blog to see if there is any reply to my comment, to find it has magically been deleted from the post!

oh well, i thought, why have a blog and post stuff at all, if, when you get an alternative opinion backed up with facts, you simply dont argue with it, but delete it instead? - if you dont want comments, then turn them off!

so off over to the bbc's website and see what the people are talking about there. on my log in i find that despite more than 100 comments being added to the thread "what should political parties focus on?" mine are still held in its "moderating queue" - of course it attacks the broken promises of the labour government, no student loans then brought them in, etc.
i check on another post i made 2 days ago, regarding "how should food policy be changed" - again this post attacked the government for putting the onus on the public and not doing anything to reign in supermarkets, who receive preferential treatment to independant retailers, etc. - once again it was held in a moderating queue for days, no doubt to go the way of many other posts against this labour government on a whole variety of issues, only published after the debate has been closed to comments and then disappears off the website within 12 hours!

so we have a labour mp blog that comments arguing a point they themselves have raised, mysteriously vanish, without explanation - then we have the bbc website forums being "moderated" to stop any opinions that oppose the government from being published and voted for.

the labour party must be in trouble, they now wont even debate with facts, any position they state they take on any issue, they have proved they just want to control the uk public.... no wonder the uk public cannot get any answers about whats happening in todays britain!