New Generation, Same Old Balls

Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck YUCK.

What a miserable day indeed it is outside, in the real world. Screw autumn – winter is here folks. We didn’t even really get a summer, did we? Some things never change.

And you can say the same about what’s on the television. I’m convinced X-Factor never actually ended, it’s just one long-running manipulative karaoke contest. Two And A Half Men just WON’T GO AWAY. Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington are not only on every TV channel but also on every bus stop and billboard in the WORLD. And of course Coronation Street is fifty years old in December. Bloody hell.

Also on the telly, and I’m sure you’ve all been paying attention, is the Labour party conference. It’s not quite as riveting as watching the Pope fall asleep as he is forced to listen to days of fairytale gibberish but it’s up there. The Labour party has a new leader, Ed Miliband. He had been competing against four other contenders, one which included his own big brother, to get the gig and he won fair and square. The candidates all said that, whoever won, the party must unite behind the new leader, and move on from the squabbles of the past. No more lies, no more “soap opera” – just honesty and using the best team possible to tackle the coalition government of the Tories and Lib Dems.

Within mere days, that aim is unravelling before our very eyes.

Ed’s big brother David, who was expected to win the contest, is understandably angry and is tipped to dump his brother and his party and walk away from it all. That’s desire and determination for you. Ed Balls, who is a prick of the highest order (which admittedly makes for a half-decent politician), has slated big Dave before he’s even made his decision on whether to leave or not. Balls said he wouldn’t have competed against his own brother. Balls has twisted the knife into supposed friends, he did it with Gordon Brown and he’s doing it again already.

Harriet Harman, the acting leader between Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, voted for the war in Iraq, yet yesterday changed her tune as soon as a new leader announced that he wasn’t that fond of that decision, actually. What does she stand for then? Or does she just go with the flow and make stuff up as she goes along?

Andy Burnham, another Labour leader candidate, was on stage today making a speech about the NHS. However, the used the last half of his time to rip into the Coalition, which he still likes to call the ConDem government. Har har har. How grown-up of him. Burnham began slating Nick Clegg and calling him a Tory in a yellow tie. For fuck sake, Labour lost the election and the other two big parties joined together to sort out the mess, WHAT’S SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT? Did you expect Clegg and the Lib Dems to say: “Nah, actually, y’know, lets just not step up to the plate to show what we can do. Lets sit back, look like a bunch of nobs and let all the wee parties like the Greens, SNP and the Welsh lot cobble together the worst government in history with Labour, who lost the election. I think that’s a GOOD idea, what do you think?” If Ed Miliband wants to change how Labour works, he can do with less of Burnham talking the same old shit.

To top it all off perfectly, that disgusting woman at the top is Hazel Blears. She was one of the unfortunate souls who had to backtrack on TV in regards to the expenses nonsense. Blogger Guido Fawkes posted this video earlier, which explains it all. Blears says one thing, denies it, then gets caught out. In short, Blears, as part of the ‘New Generation’ Labour Party, is still a lying cow. What can Ed Miliband do to change that?

Like I said, some things never change.