michael adams wrote
Rod Speed wrote
michael adams wrote

But how many people voted Labour in the expectation
that it would be a Labour Government who would invade
Iraq, carry on with deregulation and bail out banks to the
tune of billions while allowing the bonus culture to remain ?

Irrelevant. The point is that when they **** up badly enough,
they are free to pull the plug on them the next time they vote.
And they did just that.

Except they didn't **** up.

Corse they did. They stupidly deregulated the banks so that when
the **** hit the fan the worst of them had to be bailed out by govt.

NOT ONE of the retail banks in Canada or Australia or New Zealand
imploded spectacularly or needed to be bailed out by govt.

Labour pursued the exact same policies a Conservative government would
have implemented if in office.

BULL****.

Post Election, nothing changed at all.

BULL**** on the cuts to benefits and the bedroom tax alone.

All that happened was that his Old Etonian education had equipped David
Cameron with the importance of switching off Sky News throat mikes before
calling erstwhile supporters bigoted women. And the importance of not
looking like an unelectable nerd incapable of defending his own
goverment's record.

The voters clearly felt otherwise, TWICE.

In the 80's and 90's a startling suggestion emerged that the way to win
elections was to appeal to the middle ground.

That had happened LONG before that.

Both in manifestos and subsequent policies.
The core voters will still vote for you whatever you do, its the swing
voters who dictate elections.

Its always been that way, nothing to do with the 80s and 90s.

And so that's what happened. While oldsters might still like to think
they're replaying battles from the 70's and 80's, to young people New
Labour and the Conservatives - all they've ever really had experience of -
are indistinguishable.

Even sillier than you usually manage. Foot was nothing even
remotely like Thatcher or Churchill. Neither is Corbyn.

As far as they're concerned voting changes nothing.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

As indeed it can't as most policy questions are decided by global economic
factors totally outside any UK Govt's control in any case.

What I said.

The old adage of "at least you're able to vote them out of office" simply
no longer applies.

Even sillier than you usually manage. They just did
that with Labour and they won't actually be stupid
enough to vote Labour back into govt until Corbyn
has been given the bums rush and a few other clowns
have been too, just like with what happened after Foot.

You're still going to get the same policies just different presentation.

Even sillier than you usually manage with Corbyn.

And have a look at the result SNP got in Scotland sometime.

and its the wrinklies who might well swing this vote.

I don’t believe that. IMO they are much more likely to not bother to vote
because they don’t care that much about politics.

Just a few words of advice.

All flushed where it belongs.