New Labour's cheerleading, self-important, self righteous harridan that is Polly Toynbee is doing her damnedest, through gritted teeth, to keep her chin up.

Whichever way you look at it, ZanuLab are fucked. And like most empires before them, they are not conquered by some all-conquering hero, they have imploded. Undone by the spin, the lies, the deceit perpertrated on the Great British Public.

In response to Polly's attempt at the aggrandisement of Labour, there is this post:

EvilTory

May 6, 2008 2:10 AM

Nice to see you back Polly. Still peddling the 'Labour can win the next election' line I see. I'm afraid that you are entirely incorrect. There is no possibility, none, that Labour can win. To win there must be tolerance. That is gone, subsumed in that contemptuous loathing that only the British people, pushed beyond their normal equable fairness, can really manage. And we have been so pushed.

Labour will be annihilated at the next election. It will lose votes and 'safe' heartland seats to Plaid Cymru in Wales and to the SNP in Scotland. The libdems will take over previously safe labour seats in major Northern urban areas; the Tories will take not only the suburbs, the market towns and the rural seats, but will rip England's cities free also. Brown will be very lucky if Labour retain a hundred seats next time round. I'm sure there will remain a few Labour tribalist donkeys, blinkered and unable to turn from their well-worn path - there are some who post on CiF - but the majority of ex-Labour voters will vote for someone else For anyone else. Just to get rid of Labour.

And do you know why all this will happen? Because Labour have been dishonest with the voters, and they have been found out. That ultimate political sin, that thing above all that we as a nation cannot and will not tolerate. Moreover they have lied to us, not once, but repeatedly for more than a decade. And now all the lies are being exposed. The myth of Brown's economic "genius" is coming tumbling down and the whole shoddy edifice of debt-ridden idiocy is displayed for all of us to see. The crocodilian expressions of concern for social justice are demonstrated as untruths in the cold light of CCTV recordings. The overbearing authoritarian intrusive 'we know best how you should live your lives' contempt for the citizens is dragged with its monstrous pile of petty paperwork from behind the 'progressive liberal' rhetoric. We see Labour for what it truly is, for what it has truly done, and we don't like it.

I wonder if you can understand just how much satisfaction there is to have the vilest, stupidest, most incompetent, most vindictive and most arrogant government I've ever seen (and I lived under PW Botha for a short while) on its knees before the citizenry at last. "I feel your pain"? Gordon, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Honestly, I'm almost looking forward to the next two years. They will fly by as Brown and his hangers-on lurch from crisis to crisis, from idiotic relaunch to idiotic relaunch. And then the finest moment. Schadenfreude written in hundred-foot high letters across the skies. Labour and Bliar almost invented tactical voting, in a British context anyway, as a means of demolishing the Conservatives in their heartlands. It will be the perfect justice, inflicted with brutal finality by a pitiless electorate, when voters across the country use their ballots to support the best-placed anti-Labour candidate. Because there's nothing more vengeful than a public which let itself be fooled.

So, sorry, Polly, but you are whistling in the dark here. Oh, it's not quite over; there are two more years before Brown is forced to go to the country, and there may yet be some miracle. Nah, just kidding. There won't be any miracle, just a long-drawn-out death rattle. The longer he waits, the worse it shall be. So I do hope he waits as long as he can.

Oh, and for the record, yes, I loathe, despise, hate this government, more than I would have ever believed possible. As someone put it on another thread, I wouldn't piss on Brown if he was on fire - unless I could piss petrol. Not because I hate Labour or socialism - I disagreed entirely with Benn and Castle, Gaitskell and Hardie but I could respect them as genuine, decent and honest men and women, politicians of principle, democrats who geuinely wanted to do right by their countrymen. But because this 'Labour', this cabal of snouts-in-the-trough careerist liars, devoid of principle, devoid of morality, devoid of apology, devoid of courage, devoid, even, of anything other than the desire to stay in power, is utterly, utterly without any saving grace whatsoever. And I find in myself something I didn't know. I'm like Shylock. I want to see them suffer. I want my pound of flesh. I want to see Brown disintegrate and drag his party down into darkness with him.

So write your articles and muse about how Labour can forestall the oncoming tide. Because the downfall, when it comes will be that much sweeter.

To coin a metaphor, Targordon has launched his Great Armament at the behest of Blairon, but there is no (political) immortality to wrest. Now all there is to do is to await the electoral Wrath which will drown Nulabour forever. Can you say 'Akallabeth'?

Like the poster, I want to see this mendacious bunch of con-artists consigned to the dustbin of history sooner rather than later, before they damage this once great nation irredeemably. And when Brown eventually shuffles off his mortal coil, that will be the day I sign up to learn to salsa.

And Polly, pet. Why don't you just fuck off to your little Italian villa and not come back.