War Criminal To Win UK Elections In 2005


War criminal and New Labour leader Tony Blair seems certain to win a third term in power at the General Election due to be held in May 2005.

When Blair wins he should send a big bouquet to Robert Kilroy-Silk. No one will have done more to help Blair than the former Labour MP and current UKIP MEP.

Kilroy-Silk wants to be made leader of UKIP. I believe his well publicised demands have weakened the party. The consequences will have a far reaching effect on British politics.

Until UKIP was fractured, the Tories were taking the anti-EU party very seriously indeed. Howard and his chums knew that they had lost a great many votes to UKIP in last summer's European elections. And they knew that if they were not to lose votes and seats to UKIP in the 2005 general election they would have to move onto UKIP's ground - and adopt a tougher line towards Europe.

Now that UKIP is weakened the Tories don't have to worry so much. They will probably believe that the UKIP threat is much slighter than it was before Kilroy-Silk started stamping his feet and holding his breath.

How does this help Blair?

Simple.

Apart from the usual domestic issues (the economy and the NHS) there are two big political issues in British politics: the illegal invasion of Iraq and the EU.

Because the Tories made the massive mistake of supporting Blair's illegal war, Michael Howard and company are now limited in how much they can criticise Blair (though they could be much tougher than they have been - particularly over the missing weapons of mass destruction).

That just leaves the European Union.

If Michael Howard and the Tories had adopted a tough anti-EU policy before the next general election they would have probably won the popular vote. They would have been the only major party to be opposed to the EU. The Tories would, for the first time in years, have had a noticeably different manifesto to the two other big parties. The Tories would have attracted a massive popular vote and they would have probably won.

Now, I fear that the Tories will slide back into a middle-of-the-road position: slightly critical of some aspects of the EU but unwilling to upset hardline Europhiles by demanding a complete withdrawal from the EU.

Millions of disillusioned voters (for whom the EU is a far bigger factor than most politicians realise) will vote by staying at home. The turn out in the 2005 general election will be the lowest for years. The result will be that the election will be decided by the millions of voters who are financially dependent upon the Government. Blair will get very few votes from tax payers in real jobs but he will get vast numbers of votes from the unemployed, from the millions relying on long term benefits and welfare and from the millions who now have jobs putting up speed cameras, promoting political correctness and encouraging people to eat more broccoli.

Just as American voters have put their war criminal back into the White House so British voters will put our war criminal back into Number Ten.

If British voters put the war criminal back into Number Ten it will be Britain's greatest disgrace; the saddest day in our nation's history.


Copyright Vernon Coleman 2004