Labour getting that sinking feeling

Metaphorically speaking, Labour has donned the apparel of the Titanic?

With Captain Hindsight in command, they set sail for New York, and America, where Socialism is running amok. Having given orders for full speed ahead, into the dark dangerous waters of the Atlantic, Hindsight retires to his cabin, to isolate from reality, and work on his extracurricular jobs, leaving first officer Rayner on the bridge and in command.

Messages pour in warning of danger ahead, but the callers are told to shut up, and the warnings ignored. The lookouts have no binoculars, and can only see looking inward, when out of the darkness looms the iceberg of public rejection.

Rayner orders a hard turn to the left, but too late as the jagged edges of indignation scrape the side of the ship. The inadequate rivets of wokeness start to pop, and allow the plates of unity to come apart, letting in a tsunami of public anger; the ship is doomed.

But, there aren’t enough life boats, so priority must be given to the champagne wokes, who espouse socialism, but can’t spell it, and can’t live it. Next must come the identified vulnerable groups, a necessity for human shields and the promotion of human rights. But, alas all those in steerage, who brought Labour into existence, must be left to drown, no longer required and probably voting Tory anyway?

Labour know all about sinking ships; they sank the British shipbuilding industry with nationalisation; they sank the railways with the Beeching plan; they sank the aerospace industry by turning their back on the world beating TSR2, by buying second hand American semi obsolete planes. They sank the mining industry, closing more pits than were ever in Mrs Thatcher’s dreams; they sank the British car manufacturing industry, by letting the unions run amok. Each time they’ve been in power, they’ve sunk the economy and employment.

They nearly sank the Covid inoculation programme, with their demands for the government to submit to EU control over the jabs.

They are doing their best to sink every value and belief that has made this country great with their woke agenda, and they would sink the country, given half a chance, with a tsunami of unlimited migrants with their open door policy.

Really, Labour should rebrand themselves “The Flattery Party”, because they get you nowhere! Do they ever get that “sinking feeling”?

Steve Vickers, by email