Labour cash crisis could bankrupt party leaders:
“The party’s constitution is like a five-a-side football club, or the local cricket club. The big difference is that the most club officials and managers could expect to have to fork out is an unpaid bill for hiring the pitch. In Labour’s case, it’s tens of millions of pounds.”
New Labour, like the country who followed its lead, has financed its dreams on the never-never and now it’s deep, deep in the hole and the executive are personally liable. Unsurprisingly it doesn’t look like the unions will stump up, not after the way they’ve been treated and no matter how many new hollow agreements Labour offer.
There’s a bloody good reason why the party’s constitution makes the executive severally and jointly liable for debts – so that executive members would consider their potential personal loss and not get into debt, because it would be on their own heads. So who did New Labour’s golden girls and boys, most of whom have yet to hold down a proper job and have, most likely, never even had to balance the household books, expect to make up the repayments when they took the debt on? I swear that New Labour’s authoritarian incompetents have been thinking their party expenditure’s been paid by the taxpaying mugs all this time, just like their own exorbitant personal expenses.
Er, no. They are personally liable for the debt they and their party have run up and that could mean the application of their own draconian laws against them.
That means that means if they don’t pay, the creditor can take pretty much all they own in satisfaction of the debt and associated charges – and do it with menaces. I hope that each member of Labour’s excutive, starting with Gordon Brown, each get a bailiff’s visit from their very own government-licensed thugs. Like this politically conveniently-timed raid on peace protestors just before the Iraq invasion:
Bailiffs evict peace protesters
Peace protestors who occupied a derelict building in the centre of Bristol for 12 hours have been evicted by bailiffs.
The bailiffs smashed their way into the building near the Council House, which had been occupied since 0700 GMT on Friday by an unknown number of people from anti-war and housing action groups.
They said the money being spent on the war could be spent instead on housing in the city.
The eviction happened on the eve of the anti-war march in London, which will be attended by protesters travelling in 66 coaches from Bristol.
Or perhaps they’d prefer a visit like this, to someone having problems paying their council tax -which has doubled since Labour came to power:
…in the first instance they turned up and tricked my husband into letting them in,he knew he shouldnt,but they made him believe letting them in was his only option,you know how they like to scare and bully people!,anyway,he let them in,they did a very vqague walking possesion,agreed payments of £30 a week(which we couldnt afford,but as i said,hubby felt intimidated),anyway,this was to be paid by cheque because they dont accept helpful payment methods such as standing order.
We kept the payments up to date,but thought instead of sending a cheque every week,we would send one for the whole month in advance,so payments were all up to date,just easier than weekly cheques.
Then a different bailiff to the first one,turns up on our doorstep asking for my hubby,so i ask whs calling,he says im mr ****** from chandlers,im here to take possesion of goods to the value of £1879,for outstanding ct.
So i explain to him that the latest cheque has just been cashed,he says yes it has,im not here to dispute that your account is up to date,as it is in perfectly good order,unfortunately,you agreed to pay in weekly instalments,and you’ve been paying monthly,so you’ve defaulted on the agreement,and if you cant pay by tomorrow at 6am,i will come back with the police!!,we tell him theres no way we can find that kind of money(if we had money like that,we’d have been able to pay the ct in the first place!!),so he says hes prepared to accept £958 tomorrow and reinstate the agreement for the rest,then my hubby made a flippant comment about him being generous,so the bailiff gets his head firmly wedged up his backside and says fine,i’ll be back tomorrow,i want the full amount,so i go after the idiot and persuade him to take the £958,he then says to call him when i have the money.After alot of panicking(where the hell am i supposed to find nearly a grand by the morning??),i get in touch with my brother in law,who does debt management,and ask if he can help,after alot of shouting and crying to the council,who told me it was tough luck,its in the hands of the bailiffs and theres nothing they can do about it cos im not on benefits(ha,if i was on benefits,i wouldnt have to pay the bloody council tax!!),i got him to speak to them for me,he managed to get the council to agree that the bailiff should never have turned up here and we didnt have to pay him the money,and if he came back i was to tell him to bugger off!.
Anyhow,mr ****** turns up at 10 am,and i tell him to go away,the council say he has no business being here,and he replies that,yes,the council have called him off,all there is to pay today is £180,which are there charges,so my bil who is on the phone tells him to sod off we dont owe him anything,he cant charge us for a visit he shouldnt have made in the first place,so he hangs the phone up on my bil and proceeds to take a clamp out of his van to clamp my car,so i pay him the £180 cos im on my way to work,he reinstates the old agreement,but to monthly payments,and off he goes.
So,my bil has put in a complaint with chandlers and north somerset council,the bailiff is denying threatening to clamp my car(my neighbour saw him,clamp in hand!!),and when i last checked the account,chandlers had added £1300 worth of charges!,we have paid over £600 off the bill and its higher now than when it started,the council have had £109 paid to them,and chandlers are laughing all the way to the bank!!!!!.
I can’t see any more just desert than that for those who cheered on New Labour’s authoritarian incompetence and their war crimes, and who in doing so have enabled another decade of Tory rule to come.
I want to see each and every one of them, jointly or severally, humiliated and stripped of everything they own, left on the street to sink or swim according to the vagaries of their own housing policies and forced to survive on the pittance they call the Job Seekers’ Allowance, just like the millions of others they have written off as the underclass. Let their children eat turkey twizzlers alone in a B&B while Mum or Dad begs for a crisis loan at the DWP.
It would be a start.
