There are a number of things that one can expect to get from today’s Labour Party, things like Islamopandering or economic incompetence or empty slogans. However there is one thing that the Labour party always delivers, whether they are in government or not, is hypocrisy.
The writer Paul T Horgan writing for the Conservative Woman website, has pointed out the hypocrisy of Labour figures such as Emily Thornberry (Lady Nugee) who play to the leftist gallery by making statements about how they would ‘stand up’ to President Trump, yet whose party backs some of the worst regimes around. Lady Nugee appeared recently on the BBC ‘s Andrew Marr show and was given a bit of an easy ride by Mr Marr. He allowed her to spout guff about how President Trump is a bad man but didn’t put any critical questions to Lady Nugee about Labour’s support for the murderous socialist regime in Venezuela. Mr Horgan said that it would have been good if Mr Marr had, in his words, dropped ‘the V bomb’ on Lady Nugee, it would have exposed Labour’s double standard when it comes to which regimes Labour supports.
Mr Horgan said:
Emily Thornberry was given ample opportunity to wax lyrical about an ‘ethical foreign policy’. She stated that, if she were Foreign Secretary and met Donald Trump, she:
‘[…] will be prepared to stand up to him. I would be prepared to say, ‘I’m sorry Mr President, but you’re wrong about that. We are supposed to be good friends, and these values are not our values. You are doing the wrong thing.’
Mr Horgan then added:
It is at this point that Andrew Marr should have dropped the V-bomb. But, naturally, he didn’t. It wouldn’t do to put a Labour politician on the spot about the disaster that is Venezuelan socialism to a fellow-traveller, and certainly not by good old dependable Mr Marr. The plight of the poor folk of Venezuela has been well-documented online. It has, however, been all but invisible on mainstream television. It has been edited out by the BBC’s Ministry of Truth. Clearly it is too inconvenient and interferes with the BBC’s narrative.
There is no good reason for this. The Labour Party is up to its elbows in the vat of excrement that is the Venezuelan economy. Its senior politicians are on record as depicting the policies of the Venezuelan leadership as the model for a viable alternative to capitalism. British trades unions openly support the Venezuelan government. Commentators who write in The Guardian have sung their praises of the disastrous direction in which the late Hugo Chavez steered his unfortunate country.
Venezuela is actually one of the world’s worst countries to live in. The cause of its blight has not been war or natural disaster, but state socialism. Businesses shun the country. Inflation soars. Oil wealth is squandered. While Labour are quick to criticise oil rich Saudi Arabia, the quality of life of the average person in that country is considerably better than it is in Venezuela. Infant mortality is higher in Venezuela than in Syria, which is in the middle of a civil war. About 24,000 people are murdered in socialist Venezuela every year. While denouncing Saudi Arabia’s attempts to secure its border with Yemen, no broadcaster is interested in the ethnic cleansing of Colombians living within Venezuela’s borders. I wonder why?
It’s fawning. The Left in general, their fellow-travellers in the media, and the Labour Party in particular, fawn over Venezuela, while deliberately ignoring the hard fact this country is collapsing due to its socialist policies. Would Thornberry even consider telling President Maduro that he’s wrong, like she wants to tell President Trump? Would she even disagree with the socialist policies that have brought premature death to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans?
Although I don’t always agree with the positions that Conservative Woman takes, as I take a more libertarian view on some issues than they do, Mr Horgan is without a doubt correct in his assessment of Labour. Labour have long term and extensive links with and have given support for the horrific socialist regime that runs and has ruined Venezuela. It shows up just how bad and unsuitable for government Labour is if they can aim all their ire at President Trump, but fail to criticise a Venezuelan regime that has taken an oil-rich economy and turned it into a basket case, where the national currency is worth less that the government-issue toilet rolls that are in such short supply.
If you are thinking of putting your ‘X’ in the box marked Labour on June 8th then think again. Think of what sort of regimes that they admire and support and imagine the policies that have brought Venezuela so low being imposed by Labour on you and your family? Labour is so mired in the ‘excrement’ of support for Venezuelan socialist dictators that until they change, they should never again be trusted with the governance of the United Kingdom.
