Thursday - April 25, 2013
the left has reorganised and is every day, circumventing democracy
Not certain who is copying whom but there seems to be a race on. So far the UK is ahead of the USA where many are armed. Not too funny that.
But it is true and I have been saying it for a long time. The left is in control, the current PM is hardly that with the co-coalition govt. in place. And I am not sure he’d make that big a difference anyway.
Quentin Letts covers politics, his beats are two and he is always brilliant at them. He is a drama critic and also covers Parliament. Don’t know how he manages all the writing he does daily.
There have times over the years that I may not agree , like when he gets critical of USA foreign policy or when he was critical of Bush as everyone here seems to be, even then, I could not help but admire the man. And his skill as a wordsmith.
Take a look.
How the Left’s grip on Britain is tightening, with ever more control over key public bodies since David Cameron came to power
By Quentin Letts
Voters in the Yorkshire seaside town of Redcar may have felt a stab of deja vu in recent days. Into their lives once more there barged a tall, shock-headed lawyer with a maddening, nanny-knows-best manner.
She announced that there was no need for the police to monitor minor drugs use because it simply ‘wasted their time’ and was, anyhow, of piffling concern to the public. Redcar residents surely looked at this carrot-topped autocrat, Vera Baird (6ft plus Vera is hard to miss), and thought: ‘Hey, we got rid of her in 2010.’ So they did. They booted her out as their MP with gusto.
Yet here was barrister Baird back in the political pulpit, unashamedly spouting her fashionable theories. How come? Well, Miss Baird, after two years in the wilderness, managed to get herself adopted as Labour’s Northumbria candidate in the new elections for police and crime commissioner.
There we could probably leave the bullet-proof Baird were it not for the fact that her political resurrection reflects a wider, more troubling trend — the stealthy acquisition of power by the Left in areas previously unpolluted by party politics.
From the outer spheres of Whitehall to the BBC, from quangoland to the charities (the ‘third sector’ as they now call themselves with that echo of ‘fifth column’), Left-wing intellectuals are on the march.
Police commissioners have at least been elected, albeit on low turnouts. But others are unelected placemen and women who suck money from the state. They cost us money not just with their often inflated public salaries, expenses and pensions, but also in their promotion of Left-wing ideologies and their determination to sabotage the Coalition’s efforts to reform the British economy by reducing the size and influence of the state.
Reds under the bed? If only that was the only place. These people are everywhere. In fact, it would not be going too far to say that after nearly three years of a Tory-led Government, it is still the Left that controls the real levers of power in Britain.
BBC actors and canons of the Church of England do not hesitate to espouse public, partisan views. Small beer? Yes. But once that slide from objectivity in supposedly revered figures has happened, we become less offended by more serious bias.
And so we shrug at political shenanigans on hospital trusts, in state education governance, in academic think tanks, in once impeccably apolitical animal welfare charities. The RSPCA, now run by a Liberal Democrat zealot, has pursued an obviously political prosecution against a hunt in David Cameron’s constituency.
Great institutions seem to have lost sight of impartial public service and have become infected by politicised turf wars and blame-evasion.
This, I am afraid, is the stuff of serious cultural collapse. From time to time a scurvy journalist (soon, of course, to be regulated by a new organ of this mottled state) dares to point this out. We are then told that there is ‘nothing untoward’ and that ‘no political influence’ has occurred.
But this refusal to question institutional bias may remind us of Rene the café owner in TV’s ’Allo ’Allo. When caught by his wife in the arms of another woman, Rene would call his spouse ‘you stupid woman’ and insist he was innocent. Officialdom tries to pull the same trick.
When card-carrying Labourite Dame Suzi Leather chaired the Charity Commission, we were assured that her stewardship was non-political. The Charity Commission, pre-Leather, had been a dusty, faultlessly non-controversial body. Under Ed Balls admirer Dame Suzi, it became entangled in politics as it tried to destroy independent schools.
Recent figures showed that more Labour supporters are working for public bodies under David Cameron than did so under the last Labour government. Mr Cameron loves to be thought Centrist, moderate, not a tribal fellow. The Left sees this and takes him for a fool.
The Prime Minister is foregoing control of organisations which are undermining his Government.
Labour-dominated quangos, health trusts and advisory bodies are on a war footing.
You only had to see the hysterically overdone claims about social hardship whipped up against Iain Duncan Smith from the likes of the Child Poverty Action Group, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the TUC.
Or look at the state-paid Leftists — such as self-regarding university dons — who constantly carp about Education Secretary Michael Gove’s brave reforms of state schools.
Critics of Mr Duncan Smith included Save the Children and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Innocents will hear the names of these charities and suppose they are devoted solely to the alleviation of suffering. Think again.
Save the Children is run by Justin Forsyth, Gordon Brown’s ex-strategy chief. He is paid £162,000 a year and previously worked for Tony Blair. The NSPCC, meanwhile, has hired Peter Watt as director of child protection, advice and awareness. He used to be the Labour Party’s general secretary.
Fair-minded readers will say ‘well, it’s the Conservatives’ fault for not applying for the jobs’. But it’s not that simple. For public duty has become a career and it appeals more to big-state tax-and-spend types than free-market-supporting individualists.
Gordon Brown had a team whose responsibility was to plan appointments to public bodies and charities, carefully building a kind of government-in-exile.
Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, explains: ‘These charities are not the kindly tin-rattlers they were. In 2008, Gordon Brown changed the rules so charities could join political campaigns. It was a masterstroke.
‘The charities sharpened their claws by hiring former Labour apparatchiks. Now, Britain’s charities are nurturing a talented and efficient anti-Tory alliance.’
In a recent paper published by the Institute of Economic Affairs, academic Christopher Snowdon wrote: ‘In the past 15 years, state funding of charities in Britain has increased significantly, while restrictions on political lobbying by charities have been relaxed.’
Some of these charities lobbied for causes that don’t enjoy widespread public support, such as bigger government, higher taxes and the creation of new agencies to oversee and enforce new laws.
David Cameron, devoted to the middle ground, will never reverse this. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in his arts policy which has appeased meretricious non-talents from the Left.
Arts minister Ed Vaizey declares vacuously that his favourite artist is Tracey Emin, even though she could barely draw a bath.
Subsidised British art has been left in the control of a cabal of dated modernists headed by Sir Nicholas Serota, a man who is about as Tory as Fidel Castro.
Nothing is more obstinate than a defeated, discredited Left which has reorganised and is, every day, circumventing democracy and outsmarting a naïve Prime Minister who wishes too much to be liked.
Posted by peiper on 04/25/2013 at 01:07 PM
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