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An Honest Man After the 1992 General Election resulted in victory for John Major’s Conservatives, Neil Kinnock stood down and John Smith was soon after elected leader of the Labour Party. Although the income tax plan which had apparently scuppered Labour’s chance to take power had been designed by John Smith himself, he was seen as a safe pair of hands. As previously mentioned, Smith was not a fan of Clinton’s leftist brand of Fabian-style Globalism, reportedly telling Peter Mandelson: “I know what their game is! Well, I can tell you that we don’t need any of this fucking Clinton stuff over here. They’re just drawing attention to themselves and rocking the boat.” However, while John Smith was in charge of the Labour Party, the next generation—who would eventually go on to design New Labour—were busy throwing in their lot with the American globalists. John Smith was a consummate professional. He knew that Labour would be able to challenge at the next General Election if they focussed on where the Conservatives were weakest, even before their weaknesses had become defining issues. For example, his first speech in Parliament targeted the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, which was a determining factor in the following General Election. Smith was constantly on the attack, and his attacks were very successful. Smith often used comedy to make his points. He described John Major and Norman Lamont as the “Laurel and Hardy of British politics”; he told Labour members at a Sheffield rally that the Conservatives would have a box office disaster with “Honey, I Shrunk the Economy”; and in a 1993 debate he hit out at John Major stating: “the man with the non-Midas touch is in charge. It is no wonder that we live in a country where the Grand National does not start and hotels fall into the sea”. While Smith was the Labour leader, the party continuously led in the polls. The week before Smith died, the Conservatives were savaged in the local council elections, where they suffered their worst defeat in over 3 decades. By May 1994, John Smith’s Labour Party had a massive 23-point lead in the polls, ahead of a severely flagging Conservative Party. Even though the British economy was steadily recovering, Labour was expecting to take power in the next General Election. That was before tragedy struck. The aforementioned Alwyn W. Turner also mentions Labour’s path to victory under John Smith as being set in stone, stating: “The feeling that there was no need for a change in direction was supported, as it happened, by the very polls that Prescott professed to despise. In the last opinion poll published before Smith’s death in May 1994, Labour stood at 45.5%, with the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives neck-and-neck, more than twenty points behind. The assumption on behalf of the electorate was that Labour could, almost certainly would, win the next election and that Smith was a serious leader.” John Smith previously had a heart attack on 9th of October 1988, and afterwards, he changed his lifestyle considerably. He reformed his diet, gave up smoking, and took up hiking in the Munro mountains of Scotland. He lost almost 3 stone, and it appeared that he was a much healthier man in general. However, on the 12th of May 1994, Smith suffered a fatal heart attack at his flat in Central London. The unexpected death of a beloved Labour leader led to a showdown ensuing between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for the leadership of the party. According to some sources, the two World Economic Forum Global Leaders for Tomorrow, and International Visitor Leadership Program alumni, made a backroom deal which meant Blair became Prime Minister under the condition that Brown became chancellor and that he’d be given total control over the economy. Although Blair and Brown won their 1997 election in a landslide, John Smith’s biographer believed that Smith was on course to win a similar, if not slightly reduced, majority. But this was not John Smith’s Labour Party any more. This was Blair’s freshly rebranded New Labour, built in the image of Bill Clinton’s Democrats, and manned by like-minded Fabians who were ready to pivot away from the interest of the British people, and towards supporting American-style militaristic Globalism. The epitaph on John Smith’s grave reads: “An honest man’s the noblest work of God.” (Below: John Smith and Family: Sarah, John, Jane, Elizabeth and Catherine - Courtesy of The John Smith Centre) 🧵10/11