"Mike Mitchell" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:46:33 -0000, "IMM" wrote:

I am basically an ABC, Anyone But Conservative. But New Lab, is aiming
for
desperately needed constitutional change, so they have to stay. The
country
have to break these elf interest Medieval institutions.

I'm all for modernisation, but Labour is breaking the kinds of
traditions that have served Britain so well for centuries. Lord Woolf
today warned against the Draconian proposals to change the justice
system, and hardly a day goes by when Blunkett doesn't try out his
latest "Heydrich" manoeuvre. We already have the largest prison
population in Europe, yet the Govt seems desperate to lock ever more
people away, while preventing Maxine Carr from utilising HDC, a
thoroughly political decision merely to appease the right-wing gutter
press.

Basically, this Labour government is not the Labour of old, neither is
it Tory or liberal, but some weird hybrid, led by Tony Blair in a very
dogmatic, but wrong, fashion. I dread to think what Blair actually has
in his mind as the ideal blueprint for Britain over the next ten,
twenty years, but I'll bet not many citizens will like it much.

If anyone can get this country anywhere near a meritocracy, getting rid of a
landowning aristocratic parasitic tier, fully democratic and an open free
information society then I am with them.

Blair is the only one who has done something, but nowhere near enough, and
he aims to do more. He has to stay. he Libs will implement proportional
representation and that is all, and the Tories will do nothing or reverse to
take us backwards.

Thatcher gave meritocracy lip service but did eff all. Eton, Harrow,
Oxbridge, Guards, and the rest of the ******** still rule. It is pathetic
in a so called modern country.

Blair does run the economy well and some excellent anti-social laws too.