New Labour
Things can only get better...
A.K.A. Neu Arbeit. A phrase used to describe a group of largely apolitical, statist, authoritarians who have used the traditional Labour party as a vehicle to further their rampaging lust for power. The leader of the New Labour experience was Tony Blair but is now Gordon Brown. Due to the arrse falling out of support for Gordy, he has desperately tried to distance himself from Bliar's failed policies... not that his policies are any better or less incompetent!
In eleven years of power they have enacted over three thousand six hundred new laws, few of which are actively used... unless you want to fly with a bottle of water in your luggage... or shout 'rubbish' at one of Jack Straw's speeches - in which case you get to experience ALL of them.
... and worse!
Twenty years ago, if someone had told you that: there would be no Iron Curtain, WARPAC would be in the EEC (and winning Eurovision), Muslim extremists would be blowing themselves up on the London Underground, the British Army would be fighting in Afghanistan (again), that a Labour government would be in power for over a decade, that it would introduce ID Cards, a DNA database, a CCTV camera on every street corner and permit uncontrolled immigration to the point that English market towns resemble Soweto; that the police would look like the Federation troopers off Blake's 7, that we would have a multi-layered and largely inept law enforcement system that is seemingly powerless to enforce the law to the lawless, but uses its myriad powers with great effect to the largely law-abiding - and that the law-abiding are increasingly alienated of consequence....
<deep breath>
... That we have children who are institutionally uneducated almost by design, that you can be prosecuted for leaving your bin out on the wrong day - or putting the wrong rubbish in it, that local councils share the same powers as MI5, that any land you own can be 'bought' by the state and handed over to gypsies, so as to meet targets required by laws laid down in another country; that criminals and terrorists will have more rights than you - and that a veritable army of lawyers will vigorously (and perversely) enforce them at your expense; that the country will be absorbed in to a European federal superstate with its own currency - and done so without the democratic consent of the electorate, well... would you have believed them?
Whilst the fall of the Berlin Wall cannot be attributed to New Labour, virtually 99.9% of the above is directly consequential to the insane policies of this hateful government.
