As well as being a Labour councillor in both Manchester and Ipswich, Kevan Lim has been a Labour member since he was eighteen and has voted Labour in every election since 1970. With that sort of pedigree it’s shocking, to say the least, that he’s considering who to vote for now, and it won’t be Labour.
He makes an interesting post in his blog where he lays down the frustration of the financially literate. Gordon Brown is saying that he will protect government spending, having full knowledge that he can do nothing of the sort. To me – although Kevan’s too much of a gentleman to say this – that is the textbook definition of a lie, and to make it the main plank of your election campaign is to be a liar and to make thousands of well-intentioned and honourable activists into liars. Most of them know that they are lying on every doorstep and with every leaflet, but they will keep on with this appalling leader and his appalling behaviour until times get better.
Kevan Lim seems to have had enough and to say to the world what the other Labour activists do not even want to themselves, the Labour campaign is based on a central lie.
All three main parties (and almost all the minor ones) are soft peddling the horror that’s to come, whoever gets in. Sure, the Tories tried to lay it out starkly for a while, but although they are still far more honest than the other parties they have rowed back.
Anyway, back to Kevan Lim, and here is his main point:
So blindly protecting public services as the government is stating during this election is both impossible due to the budget deficit crisis and also because it will be the ordinary working people of this country who will have to pay for the cost of inaction either through higher taxes and/or the ending of key public services.
Spot on. And this is more eloquent than George Osborne and Vince Cable have been throughout this campaign.
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