It is a characteristic of totalitarian regimes that whilst reality is denied the state run media endlessly promote popular illusions and lies that are constantly repeated until they take on the appearance of truth. An example of this is Gordon Brown's constant repetition of the fact that Britain has a vibrant economy, over the last few days since the General Election was announced. The fact that the car giant Rover, the last British car manufacturer and a century old British manufacturing company, has just been placed into receivership shows that Gordon's lies on the economy are about as ' real ' as Blair's lies about Saddam Hussein's WMD missile system that could destroy the West in "45 minutes". But as long as their credit cards keep dispensing cash to them the lemmings in the British public will believe the lie as they cannot afford to accept the reality. Afloat upon an ocean of easy credit reality is the rock upon which the ship of fools is about to crash as soon as the economy starts to collapse.
Over 6,000 jobs at the Rover car plant will be lost when the plant closes and 20,000 related jobs in the West Midlands who supplied the car plant with equipment and resources will also be lost.
The fact that Tony Blair and Patricia Hewitt of the Department of Trade and Industry were negotiating with China, a harsh Communist dictatorship that crushed nascent democracy in China beneath tank tracks and machine gun fire, to buy a British company showed the moral bankruptcy of the Labour Government. The fact that Gordon Brown's 'economic success' is based on crawling to China for help to save a British manufacturing company shows the impotence of this government. The Labour government could not directly invest in the Rover car plant as the European Union rules on state subsidies of private companies restricts such investment. The fact that the only country in Europe that abides by these rules on internal investment is Britain, whilst all the rest break these rules with impunity, shows the utter stupidity and cowardice of the Labour government. They would rather throw 30,000 British workers on to the dole than offend their European political masters whose pockets are already bulging with stolen Euros.
This tragedy also once again illustrates the utter incompetence and stupidity of the current leadership of the trades unions in Britain. Instead of organising a national strike to demand that the British government nationalises Rover, confiscate the multi-million pound pensions of the Rover management board and then invest that money in the company itself so that Britain has at least one British car company, Tony Woodley of the TGWU sat next to Patricia Hewitt at the press conference that announced the death of Rover and did and said nothing.
The TGWU surrendered to the government's cowardice with not even a whimper or a whine. Whilst Rover workers were trying to explain to their families that they had lost their jobs, the Labour Government was busy digging Rover's grave whilst the TGWU union acted as the undertaker.
Only a few weeks ago the TGWU spent tens of thousands of pounds of its members' money fighting an Employment Tribunal case to expel a member from the union, just for being a member of the BNP. It seems that the TGWU is more than willing to accept the blood money from the Chinese government drained from the gulags of China, where student demonstrators for democracy in China have been held and murdered, to subsidise Rover but will not accept a British worker in their union who wishes to exercise his democratic civil rights in Britain to join a trade union. This sick and twisted morality shows that the trades unions are merely an extension of the Labour government - they are a gutless, cowardly cabal of ex communists and bigots who have betrayed the British worker.
The fact is that the trades unions are just not interested in the rights of British workers. They have not stood up against this government's policy of ' offshoring ' jobs to India, China and other developing nations as they would prefer to see investment and manufacturing jobs go to those countries and not Britain. The trades unions have launched endless internal purges of all political dissidents over the last few years in order to silence those within the unions who would have stood up and demanded the unions act to save British jobs. In the meantime the Labour Party has bribed the trades unions with £6 million a year to invest in recruiting new members. This is so the trades unions then pay back to the Labour Party through their donations to the Labour Party. The unions have been bought and paid for by the Labour government to sit by and watch as British manufacturing is destroyed. They have been well paid for their silence and apathy.
Rover is just the another victim, just one of the many British companies that are about to go to the wall as the British economy begins to collapse due to the pernicious effects of Globalisation on our national manufacturing and industrial base.