"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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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 which part of the following 15 word sentence did you have the
most problems with ?

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

Whether deregulating banks was a good idea or not is irrelevant.
In order to get elected Labour needed to follow the exact same
centrist/right agenda as was initiated by Thatcher.

The Conservatives biggest electoral weapon is fear. Older
voters are primarily motivated by fear, which is why in
order to get elected at all Labour needed to distance themselves
as far as possible from their previous policy positions.



michael adams

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