"Leadership is not just about speaking--leadership is about listening. So as from tomorrow I will be going around constituencies of this country--mainly constituencies that we lost, but also some that we won to talk to people in our own party--but also people who didn't vote for us, to understand why, to understand their hopes and aspirations, and their fears", David Miliband said, as he launched his leadership campaign for the Labour Party which he entered '27 years ago'.
One could be forgiven for stating the obvious here as to why no one listened before, and for having a sense of cynicism that Miliband's intention to listen this time will be any different to the last few years he has been part of the Labour cabinet.
Surely then he refused to listen even to his own colleagues, as people like Frank Field, Kate Hoey and others surely made their arguments plain, that the government then under Gordon Brown, Miliband and others, had simply railroaded through the Lisbon Treaty without any consideration for the people or for democracy.
If you don't listen to the people who elected you then you have no place in politics at all.
Miliband supported the Lisbon Treaty, defiant to the end that it was materially different to the Constitutional Treaty before it, which was clearly refused by anyone who had been given a vote bar the cretins who have no sense of nationhood.
You must consider who those cretins were.
My guess, is that those who voted yes to that treaty in other countries and yes to the Lisbon Treaty after it, were completely without any sense of feeling of national identity, and if that is true then it could only be immigrants or traitors who actually wanted it.
Miliband might also wish to reflect on how it is possible to stem the flow of immigrants, particularly from Islamic and violent third world countries, when you have no control over European borders and when you have an open-door policy to the rest of the world which allows masses of immigrants to enter our country and under Labour, at a time when unemployment was rising, and when cuts had to be made to services because his government had lost the plot on the economy.
By allowing complete freedom of banks to conduct the equivalent of pitch and toss with assets, which would eventually require massive bail outs from taxpayers, and when we see only the people suffering the costs of the risks they took whilst at the same time seeing them get away scot-free, is hardly likely to have people flock to the polls to support Labour.
He might want to listen to people when they tell him how politicians have merely sought to prosper themselves personally on fiddles, and to prostitute themselves on the dead body politic of globalism and and era of so called post-democracy where the peoples voice is excluded, and he might want to stop to wonder whether politicians are supposed to serve the people or whether it is our job as people to serve them.
When he considers why people voted against Labour's 'choice' to have more of the same or to choose something different he might want to ask what the people themselves consider to be important.
Of course there are many reasons why Labour lost voters, not-least that it has embroiled the nation in three dubious wars on the basis of lies and a false premise in Iraq which is questionable as to its legality, and which would put the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on to the hands of any electorate who continued to vote Labour.
But the propensity for Labour to tell lie after lie was undoubtedly its biggest undoing in the end and even unto the end as they slid out of office as a result that they simply didn't wish to remain in office any longer.
Last week when Gordon Brown realised there was no clear winner, he could have said to the people that 'we've all got it wrong'.
He could have argued that the result, far from giving a clear indication of there being a desire that two parties should 'marry each other', was a clear sign that politics itself was broken. He could have declared the result void given that fraud had been exposed and he could have set an early date for another election based on new manifesto's including proportional representation and a vote on Europe, which would deliver real choice between the parties which previously simply IGNORED those questions.
If he hopes to stand any chance at all for a shot at leadership of the country itself, then Miliband needs to distance himself from the past by grabbing these nettles with both hands and coming clean with voters.
Of course with his slick tongue he can attempt to fool the people again as he will undoubtedly fool his own party, but next time I doubt the people will fall for it.
The fundamental change his party has engendered now with the resultant marriage of Cons and LibDems, is to potentially herald another 5 years of minority governance of this country where the people, their parties, and his own supporters, are barred from having any voice on these and other matters which ultimately led to a breakdown in politics which has been fixed temporarily, only by two political jokers deciding to weld themselves together in civil partnership.
Miliband if he's smart enough, could develop a strategy to win support back and to gain ground over this unmagnificent duo, with a clear sign that shows he believes in a true democracy, by offering a) A referendum on proportional representation, and b) A referendum on our relationship with Europe.
Only by handing power to the people where it belongs, can he dispel once and for all the myth proposed by Clegg and Cameron, that we have 'consensual government' In the UK, which conveniently omits to mention the plainly obvious thing in front of all our faces, that no one in the country at all actually voted for it.
And that's the point!
We have a collegiate government that no one voted for, and it proposes to establish itself for 5 years, whilst agreeing between them to not tackle the real questions on everyone's lips of that of Europe, Immigration, Islamification of Europe, and Democracy. Despite people wish to voice their opinion on these issues without being attacked and derided as 'deniers', 'racists', Fascists, and fools. And despite we've just had an election, and despite that THE PEOPLE CHOSE NOT TO ELECT ANY OF THEM, we have the unmagnificent duo telling us everything is fine now because THEY are agreeing not to argue with themselves?
The fool is on you Mr Miliband if you fail to listen to the people when the people themselves have already given their warning in the result they gave at the general election, which showed they were decidely unhappy with the lot of you who simply thought you could carry on ignoring us and getting away with it, just like the two drips we have now who appear to think a few laughs in front of the cameras is 'GOOD GOVERNMENT'.
But hasn't the BNP been saying this for some years?
Mr Nick Griffin MEP, clearly brought out a manifesto which did promise to hear the people speak with the ability of people to raise their own referenda. To call a halt to this EU plan of yours which removes control from our nation, and to restore democracy to this land in which the people decide what happens in their own damn country, but was not able to discuss it because those like yourself who wish to remain in power without listening to the people, saw fit to brand him and attack him, and to have an establishment, the media and your attack dogs of UAF, HopeNotHate, Searchlight and others, gang up on him to prevent the people seeing that the only way their aims could have been fulfilled is with a British National Party manifesto for government.
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