Power to the People!
I agree with Proone on this one. Being a child of the 'I'm alright Jack' Thatcher era, where there was no such thing as society and greed was good, I believe that the cuts in education, health and social welfare spending during this time, along with the race to the bottom in cutting tax rates so that the rich could get richer, has had a substantial role to play in the proliferation of feral youth running amock. Whole swathes of the UK were devastated by the policies of the Tories, while they sold off the family silver.
The last Tory Govt were worse than this current lot, and while no political party are whiter than white when it comes to courting donors and dishing out honours, who was the clown that thought that Jeffrey Archer deserved a peerage? The current score between the current labour and the previous Tory ministers being sent to jail is Tory 2 - Labour 0 (as yet anyway).
Vin Rouge - do you honestly think that we wouldn't be fighting wars on 2 fronts had the Tories been in power in 2001? Do you really think that they wouldn't, rightly or wrongly, have been first in the queue to support the US? And as for Liam Fox 'quite liking us', FFS he is a opposition politician, who can promise us all sorts so long as he doesn't have to deliver.
I'm not too sure what the definition of socialism is, but if it means paying higher taxes to provide sound national health, education and social welfare systems as in Scandinavian countries, then count me in. They also seem to do quite well in exporting manufactured goods (Nokia, Volvo, Saab, Erikkson etc).
Anyway, I'm off to polish my rose tinted specs (the ones with Trotsky frames of course).
Last edited by NP20; 27th Jul 2008 at 03:03.
Reason: Edited to add that I of course do not believe that the state should support the lazy and the work-shy.