Worth quoting
"The even uglier reality for Miliband is that the New Labour era was a golden age for the PFI. The modern PFI is the child of John Major’s Conservative government, but it was adopted and thrived under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Between 1997 and 2008, 90 per cent of all hospital...
"After a shambolic month where Cameron was humiliated in a EU vote, had the chair of the party resign and seen Boris position himself for the impending election defeat his lead slips further. Not even the demotion of Gove will save him."
Just thought it was worth re-posting the original...
This thread seems to have deteriorated into a rather tedious rant between 4/5 hardcore Labour supporters for who Ed f**king Miliband is the new Messiah. God help us.
Totally agree, PR should've been introduced years ago. Its the only fair system. Trouble is its not in the electoral interest of either the Tories or Labour to do so.
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No of course it won't. The only difference will be that if Labour get in everything that moves and most things that don't move will be taxed, or the tax already paid will increase, and the funds will go into re-creating the job creation scheme that was the vastly inflated public sector the...
Hahahaha - absolutely right, The party line desperadoes are scrabbling around in the dirt like one-eyed pigeons looking for even the smallest crumb of comfort from the plethora of polls to advance their desperate craving for a slim majority for their party whereas the reality is the majority of...
Dream on .... Depending on the stance taken by the SNP, which is likely to be totally scotcentric, the SNP could well get even stronger if there was another election.
Actually what Labour consistently do when they're in power is massively increase the bureaucratic infrastructure of the NHS by creating new tiers of administration and regulation which add nothing to the quality of care provided to patients. In the Blair/Brown years they also privatised some...
Ironically the fact that the Lib Dems proved to be so weak is probaly one of the main reasons why the coalition survived. I think a SNP/Labour coalition would be a completely differnt animal because the SNP would be much harder to negotiate with and Milliband and Labour are deperate to get into...