The total, abject failure of socialism is what Labour should be nailed on

...And is what the Tories and Dave don't realise.

A whole heap of news sources hit me today like a fucking brick, the sort of moments you have when a pang of realisation happens.

First off was this utterly farcical bullshit. Yes, we, the British people, are whacking 1.5 million bad boys at the traffic problems of third world countries. Yes you did read that right. £1.5 million on poor traffic lights and zebra crossings because bad traffic and driving kills a lot of poor people. Quite why the AA are so up this I don't know, but at a guess I would say they are getting an implementation and management contract out of it.

Then the Tories slammed one home. Oh indeedy, the Murdoch trade off is finally here: local media. It's a shame, they scream out loud, that local papers are not allowed to be owned by one 'group' (read 'person'), that is why they are going under. Nothing to do with the nationals sucking them dry for every penny and reducing your important local print to be a run off from AP. Not at all. In fact my local is pretty fucking good, local interest etc. But it would be so much better if it was owned by News Corp. Course it would.

Then we had the economy. Fuck. Me. Last month we borrowed...11.42 billion Queen's faces. That's the highest October borrowing on record and means we now owe £829.7 billion and have, in turn, 2.46 million unemployed. Public sector net debt as a percentage of GDP now totals 59.2%; the highest on record. That piece of news is buried, you see that swanning about.

But what's that? Oh yeah, it's the piano dropping onto the Rolls. In case you haven't already heard, this is now the longest recession in history. So Gordon's absurd argument that the Tories would make the recession longer and deeper are clearly utter bollocks.

So who is it that is being kicked firmly and squarely in the rotund particulars? The working classes, that's who. As this Beeb article from last month clearly shows, it is not Mr Tory voting, New Labour endorsing tosser that is the loser, it's Mr working bread-winner man.

And that is why socialism has utterly failed.

Labour are a socialist party, fair enough. I don't like them, but they are what they are. The one purpose of a socialist party is to raise up the life of the workers and remove poverty and its affects from their lives. That is the biggest thing Labour has singularly failed to do. Ever.

The stats speak for themselves. Places like Walsall and Hull have gained nothing from the artificial boom Labour created to placate the Rover drivers of Kent and Hampshire. Now it is over, they are the ones getting a good kicking.

And this is repeated again and again over the last century, nothing. Nothing has been improved, nothing gained from the West Midlands to the North West, the North East to Glasgow. Hard Labour voting areas that are still shit holes.

Now they are pledging to cut child poverty, for instance, after 12 years and not one of these areas will ask 'But isn't that why we voted for you?'.

So why do they vote for them? Money. As JD said, it's about getting the cash in their pockets that they think they are 'entitled' to. Which is just fucking sick.

The people in these ghettos generally don't give a shit. They were on the dole in the 80s, the 90s and now and they will be a decade from today. They get their cash, they sit on their arse. And we aren't talking about the early 1980s and over 3 million unemployed here. The bulk of the unemployed are the same million time and again, sitting there on the statistics like some battered fridge on a lawn.

Kids are not ‘poor’, the areas they live in are poor. No jobs, no input or creation. All that happens is their parents sign on and the state gives them money. That isn't a solution. That’s the problem. And why do they keep voting Labour? For the same reason mumsnet thinks Dave will screw them, because Labour gives them cash and stuff in exchange for fuck all. The Tories, traditionally, give them the opportunity for cash and stuff in exchange for work and production.

And that is the solution that Labour cannot see, the voters refuse to wake up to and the Tories have sacrificed in a misguided bid for votes.

The only way to help these areas is to give the Local Authorities the powers and freedom to spend the money and form the partnerships to actually inject genuine regeneration into the community. Give them the power to lower business rates and taxes so that companies want to set up shop there, employ local people and spend cash in local places.

But the Left, old and new, do not see this as a solution. They quite simply do not trust you or I to spend that money in the way they want us to and they do not trust Local Authorities to do what is needed without the iron grip of state on them.

The socialist solution is to take money from A and give it to B. The proper solution is to let C set up shop and employ B to make and produce goods and services for A. But that wouldn't be a redistribution of A's money now would it, and why should B have to work for their money when A has it all sitting there doing nothing in their pension pot. Better tax it.

The clear as day fact is that the A to B solution does not work and never has.

The number of people contributing has fallen and the bill for supporting them has gone up. Yet getting these people off of support and into contributing is anathema, it can't happen. You forget, they are carers and are needed by their slightly hard of hearing wife with a slightly dodge knee.

The result is astounding. You can bet a fair whack on Labour getting voted back in for those areas, but others are lurking: the BNP.

Why? Because they are a left wing party that claims to represent the masses and it is no surprise that these scum filled bastards are cleaning up in areas of high working class unemployment. Even in Scotland the SNP Marxists are dumping Labour on its arse.

Why? Because Labour has abandoned the working masses and the working masses want the gravy train to keep on a'rollin'. They could vote Tory like '79, but the Tories have missed that boat by becoming New Labour. They could vote for a libertarian party but the only one out there is too small for them to see. And anyway, the idea of individualism is terrifying.

So no, they vote BNP or it's lighter cousin the SNP. And Labour cannot see that the reasons for this are not actually immigration, or propaganda, but a total lack of the socialist party of the people no longer representing the people. The working people are losing their jobs, their money, and it's their party that has done it.

And so socialism has completely failed and has in fact never worked. And it is that reason alone that Labour should really be held to account. It's had 12 years with a massive majority and socialism still hasn't worked, it still hasn't solved anything. Because it can't.

What it does provide though is a free ticket on the piss take express. Labour has fucked up a lot of things, but rather than hammering Labour as a party we need to start hammering socialsm as a system. Socialism and social-democracy has not, does not, will not and cannot work, it is a bankrupt belief that people still cling to. They need to be woken up to the fact.