As a lifetime fan of JRR Tolkien, who is so anorak-y his writings that I’ve re-read the Silmarillion at least 8 or 9 times I can really appreciate this Gollum/Miliband analogy from Boris Johnson. It is correct even to the detail that in the Lord of the Rings, Gollum killed his own brother in order to possess the ‘One Ring’, or in Ed Miliband’s case it was beating his brother for the poison chalice job of leading the Labour party. Miliband has a difficult task whilst so many people are quite rightly angry at the mess Labour made of Britain’s economy, immigration policy, social policy and so much more. This is why Labour are spouting any old rubbish to try to persuade people to vote for them.

On this occasion Boris is correct. Labour’s only real message is to talk up the gloom in the hope that people will believe them and vote for them in 2015. Labour really do have no positive vision for the future. They cannot offer the British people more freedom to think, speak and act, because their whole political ethos is about control from the centre. Labour cannot offer the country a more stable economic future because they have proved they are incompetent in this area when they were last in Government. They cannot even offer what many people appear to be craving, which is withdrawal from a corrupt and stifling European Union, because, like Labour’s ‘Mini-Me’s’ in the Liberal Democrats, they are wedded to the idea of a European Superstate.

Boris Johnson said:

“It is a long time since I read The Lord of the Rings, but I have a feeling that there was a character – some goblin or twisted elf – who disliked the sunlight. He was fine at night, or when he was concealed in the roots of a mountain. But as soon as he felt the daylight upon him, he would writhe and moan and generally come over all queer.

That is a bit like how it is with poor old Ed Miliband. With every day that goes by, the sun shines a little bit brighter on the UK economy. Confidence is coming back. Things are blooming in unexpected places. People are being hired to do jobs in sectors that barely existed a few years ago.

As the economic weather gets finer, the predicament of the Leader of the Opposition gets harder. He starts to look a bit invisible – a bit pointless – as though he and his poll lead were vanishing together. So he scurries around in search of the darkness. He needs to find the bad bits, the dwindling patches of shade, and make as much of them as he can.

This is what we might call Miliband’s toadstool strategy – to shelter beneath some umbrageous and poisonous fungus and croak whatever Lefty nonsense comes into his head and that he thinks will be popular. He wants us to focus on the miserable old toadstools and forget about the ambient sunshine.

First, he noticed that people were fuming about their energy bills. So Labour offered to freeze them. We’ll cut your bills! Free money for everyone! said Labour. Really? said everyone, turning to look. You bet, said the voice beneath the toadstool. And for a while, it worked – until people started thinking about it.”

Read the rest at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/10808153/The-economic-sunshine-has-left-Miligoblin-groping-in-the-dark.html

Labour are trying to gull people into thinking that the state of the country is hopeless, and that we are plunging down into a Dickensian squalor brought about by the Coalition. This is not true, this is another Labour lie, because it fails to acknowledge that Labour were mismanaging the economy and the country itself, for a lot longer than the Coalition have been able to. Labour’s greatest hope is that the voter forgets the criminal incompetence they showed when they were last in power, and lets them have another go at wrecking Britain. Wasn’t the damage done by the period of 1997-2010 enough to convince that Labour should never again be allowed anywhere near the levers of British power. If you want convincing of Labour’s unfitness to govern then visit any local authority which Labour have controlled for more than a decade and you’ll likely as not see an economic, social, educational disaster area.