Worshipping The Party

I wonder if anyone else notices something decidedly creepy about James Purnell MP’s resignation letter to Gordon Brown. He speaks of the Labour Party as an separate entity, saying of it “We owe it everything and it owes us nothing”. He adds “The Party [note the capital "P"] was here long before us, and we want it to be here long after we have gone. We must do the right by it”.

It strikes me that there’s something distinctly 1984 about all that. An individual sacrificing himself for the good of The Party, worshipping The Party. Buying into an ideology, regardless of what individuals think. What is that ideology, anyway? “This moment … calls for a Government that measures itself by how it treats the poorest in society.” In the case of Labour, then: throw benefits at them, deny them any sense of personal responsibility and sponsor them to have as many children as they like. And put them up in hotels when they decide to start committing crimes.

This Labour government (possibly the whole party) is dead and buried, thank goodness. It’s in its dying throes. There’s nothing Mr Purnell can do about that, nothing Gordon Brown can do about it. This load of politically correct liars and spin doctors, with their catalogue of scandals and countless examples of incompetence, are on their way out – hopefully forever. They were granted their chance (wrongly, in my view). Soon it’ll be time for realists to come in and try to clean up the colossal mess they’ve made. In the meantime we can just enjoy the spectacle of them disintegrating.