Well it could have something to do with headlines like "IF KINNOCK WINS TODAY WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE BRITAIN PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS"Originally Posted by walesrob
So if the Tories were THAT bad why did they win 4 elections in a row.Strange that.
You see, its the loop thing, back in the 80's and early 90's people had memories of how bad things were under Labour during the Callaghan years, and now look where we are.
I'm voting for Gloria
and don't forget the selling of the family sliver and the greed it created..
Cable & Wireless: Oct 81
Amersham International: Feb 82
Britoil: Nov 82
Associated British Ports: Feb 83
Enterprise Oil: Feb 84
Jaguar: July 84
British Telecom: Nov 84
British Gas: Dec 86
British Airways: Feb 87
Rolls-Royce: May 87
BAA: July 87
British Steel: Dec 88
Regional water companies: Dec 89
Electricity distribution companies: Dec 90
Not to mention the new Building Society Act which was passed in 1986 allowing Building societies to demutualise...... just another way for those with disposable income to make another fast buck while those without the means to join in lose out.
I well rememberNigel Lawson's 1988 Budget when he cut the basic rate of income tax from 27 to 25 per cent and was was widely applauded by the tory press the Sun, the Express etc, for doing so, while at the same time he also abolished all higher rates of tax apart from the 40 per cent rate which was a far greater giveaway to the rich than the 2% cut he gave to Mr and Mrs average.... but as Maggie always said, "we must look after our people", by which she meant, true blue tory voters and those at the top.
At the time the Sun newspaper was full copy showing how much better off Mr or Mrs Average would be, but they didn't mention how very much better of Mr Rich who used to pay 60%+ and who's income tax had been slashed by a third was going to be. But of course, that was reaganomics and all that extra wealth given to the already rich was in theory supposed to trickle down to the rest of us in some way....... some hope.
He did OK out of losing. Him and his sponging family are still milking it on board the Brussels Gravy Train. Once the games up Mandleson and his rent boy will no doubt slither back to Belgium. These crafty ex Labour politicians take two-facedness to a higher level.
Given the chance, the majority of us would do the same
Keith - Administrator
I don't think any fair minded person would think they're any better or any worse than the ex-tory politicians, many of whom were lining up very lucrative directorships by doing the odd favour for their future colleagues in the boardrooms of Britain now and then whilst still in power.
A nose in one kind of trough is just the same as a nose in another kind of trough unless your so rabidly anti-labour that you can manage to find excuses for the tory politicians who do it but not for the labour politicians who do it. And Keith is of right when he says, "Given the chance, the majority of us would do the same".
Not so............ Directorships involve salaries paid for by private money so unless you are a shareholder you have no basis for complaint. However the bodies used by Socialists to cushion their failed comrades and cronies from the real world involve the payment of obscene salaries from the public purse - Quangos, NHS Trusts, Brussels etc
Most of us probably would do the same but it is only the chums and colleagues that are given the chance.
Many Labourite trough feeders eg Bungling Bob and the woman who is the new EU foreign supremo have never had a proper job in their lives. Look at Two Shags Prescott still on the MP payroll till May 2010, he's not spoken in the Commons since July 07 but he's now British representative to the Council of Europe with a big fat expense account
Look at Two Shags Prescott still on the MP payroll till May 2010, he's not spoken in the Commons since July 07 but he's now British representative to the Council of Europe with a big fat expense account... a big, fat expense account ... for a BIG, FAT man, eh?
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