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THE LAST DITCH

Kerry Gold

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A creditable moment of truth from Labour MP, Kerry McCarthy.

The problem is, that some of these people are unemployable – not just because of lack of qualifications, but more because of lack of social skills or any awareness of what is right or proper behaviour.

It is a relief to know that some of them DO understand the truth about the British underclass (although Kerry is obviously not admitting that these people were fostered by Labour's policies on welfare benefits and education). We may have to wait a while longer for that admission.

I feel rather sorry for her
about the kicking she is now getting in the comments on her blog. It's no
wonder the average MP daren't speak the truth. Do go and read the comments though. I particularly love the wounded pride of one of her Labour trolls who claims (on being accused of confusing libertarians with anarchists) that he has two first class politics degrees. As some one asked, "Was it buy one, get one free?"

h/t Old Holborn

4 responses to “Kerry Gold”

  1. marksany Avatar
    marksany

    I don’t think Kerry is right though. The underclass has been created by the welfare state’s funding of their lifestyle. If the funding model is changed, so that single women aren’t rewarded for having children and so that low paid work is actually worthwhile, many of Kerry’s unemployable would turn the ingenuity they show working the benefits system to doing a job. There would remain a rump of genuinely unemployable, rendered socially unable to work by generations of welfare dependence and those who calculate that crime pays better than low paid work.

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  2. Tom Paine Avatar
    Tom Paine

    If memory serves, apart from Marx’s sexist restrictions on women working down coal mines, the only other element of the Communist Manifesto which is not now law in the UK is “the army of labour;” i.e. the unemployed, under military discipline, doing menial work. It’s not a very libertarian vision (libertarians would simply make no provision for those who refused to support themselves). Socialists, however, should at least be consistent in their logic. If they are going to provide for everybody, including work refuseniks, they should implement the army of labour. Good socialist Bill Clinton tried. He called it workfare.

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  3. Letters From A Tory Avatar
    Letters From A Tory

    Well it took her 11 years to figure it out.
    Better late than never, I suppose.

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  4. Guthrum Avatar
    Guthrum

    Socialists, however, should at least be consistent in their logic
    Socialists,logic,consistent- sorry does not compute

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Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

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“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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