An Early Election Looms

Speculation continues to grow over whether Gordon Brown will call an early election in the autumn after a ‘bounce’ for him and the Labour party in the opinion polls.

Money and donations are rapidly flooding the Labour party’s coffers, which leaves me in little doubt that, if necessary, Gordon Brown would have no trouble in financing an election campaign within the next year.

The Conservative party and David Cameron have underestimated Gordon Brown for some time now, previously attempting to portray him as an ‘analogue Chancellor in a digital age’. Many of them seem to have forgotten that Gordon Brown was just as much the architect of New Labour as Tony Blair. He knows the ways of spin and manipulating the press who are currently content to feed from his hand as they have done for the past ten years.

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Foot And Mouth Returns

A second outbreak of foot and mouth has been confirmed inside the Government’s surveillance zone in Surrey, and it now looks pretty likely that the initial outbreak will be traced back to one of the nearby government laboratories.

Despite Flash Gordon to the rescue; returning from his holiday on the south coast of England, it would appear that he and the Labour Government have still not fully learnt from the catastrophic mistakes they made six years ago.

The livestock culled in this month’s first outbreak were taken all the way to an incinerator near Yeovil, which was surely an unnecessary risk that could have led to spreading the disease. What’s more, so I’m told, the Government has not yet closed local footpaths in the outbreak area, so walkers could possibly spread the infection more widely if not careful.

That said, these are still early days, and I hope for the sake of the rural and farming communities across the country that the relatively swift action taken will prevent the returning sight of burning pyres throughout Britain.

If not, and the outbreak is eventually traced back to either the government laboratory, or the private company licensed by the government, then there will surely be hell to pay.

Government Legalised Theft

Yesterday, the Government announced that unclaimed money from ‘abandoned’ British bank accounts will be used to fund the building of ‘a youth centre in every town’.

The Government’s reasoning is that if they create a large number of very expensive youth centres, teenage thugs and ruffians will just suddenly stop causing trouble and enjoy using the new facilities instead.

Apparently many youths go out and cause ‘trouble’ (government speak for getting drunk, beating up other people, causing criminal damage to property, etc) because they have nothing to do. It’s not their fault you see. The fact that there are many other children who have ‘nothing’ to do and yet do not go around breaching the law does not seem to register as applicable to a government and a Labour party that just loves to waste your money on pointless and ineffective schemes.

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Reclassifying Cannabis

Gordon Brown told the House of Commons today that the Government would research and look carefully at the reclassification of Cannabis from a Class C drug to Class B. In other words, they might reclassify; they might not.

However, regardless of whether Cannabis is classified as Class B or C is largely irrelevant. More often than not, drugs laws are not enforced at a low or personal level. Individual users are rarely prosecuted, if ever, and it is only large scale importers and distributors or dealers that are sporadically targeted.

Celebrity addicts such as Kate Moss and Pete Doherty regularly flout the law without any consequence, other than the minor inconvenience of a court appearance which invariably leads to nothing. In fact, it’s probably fair to say that Pete Doherty is now better known for his drug abuse than his music. Such behaviour and lack of any retribution sends out completely the wrong signals about drug use to ordinary people who read about it in the media.

The use of illegal drugs needs to actually be enforced by the police - though unfortunately this seems unlikely in the foreseeable future since most of our political classes and the liberal media probably have used or continue to use these substances themselves, and so have little or no interest in discouraging their misuse.

Labour’s announcement is nothing more than another meaningless gesture that will do nothing to actually solve the growing drugs problem in Britain.