THE END OF THE WORLD IS AT HAND

They'll take your money, just like they've done in Cyprus!"

Just like that man tramping the streets, carrying a large placard advertising doom, councillor John Taylor was at it again this week, making all sorts of extravagant claims about welfare reform and benefit restrictions.

In bouncing from one wild remark to another, councillor Taylor not only makes himself look ridiculous, but, with his consistency in trotting out his weekly student union rhetoric, he must be first in line for Labour’s Poster Boy of Ridiculousness 2013.

For instance, in his letter he bangs on about the ‘You Choose’ event, where deserving groups bid for money that has apparently been ‘saved’ from recycling. But it was only last week that Tameside's council leader, in attempting to justify the hike in council tax, first tried to tell us it was all down to government cuts, then revealed that the raise was entirely due to the increase in the cost of waste disposal, which the council as an authority has no control over. Which basically, means that we’re paying an extra 3.5% in council tax, to fund a bureaucratically botched PPI scheme dreamt up by one department, so that another department can then give any savings away!

Then after waffling on for another eight paragraphs covering the same old ground, he finally got to ride his hobby horse by launching into the ‘savage cuts’ and how the Tory led government, should now stop blaming the last government for the world problems in the financial sector, which has led us to this situation. 

Now this I call rich, coming from a serial Tory hater who still lays the blame for all the world’s current ills at the door of Margaret Thatcher, who left office some 23 years ago!

At times he must a psychologist’s dream! -  At best a beta male trying to be something that he is not: an alpha male.

The councillor’s letter this week has merely crystallized the fact that his party’s leaders really do not have a plan or workable policy to get the country working again; their only plan seems to revolve around demonizing the coalition. 

In knocking welfare changes, Labour is again on traditional territory. Among those hit by any reductions in welfare are bound to be people existing near or on the breadline. Labour wants to stick up for them and thinks emotional attacks are the way to do it. But in doing so, all they seem to be advocating is recommending sustained moral degeneracy.

Most thinking people are now of a mind that the welfare bill needs serious pruning. Unfortunately, Labour just wants to borrow more and throw more money at it!

As for John Taylor, well if one is prone to predicting that the end of the world is at hand, don’t be surprised if people think you are daft when the sun comes up the next morning and the world is still merrily spinning on its axis.