Clive,
Please continue with your 'pokes' at Blair and Co, it keeps us all happy. However, you state you are not a Conservative, but didn't want Labour. I am sorry but voting Liberal was a total waste, they are Labour in disguise. We know that because up here as we have them in coalition government, and we are in an even worse mess than you are down south. Give them a Mondeo and they will vote for anything. I agree that in 1997 the country wanted a change, however, did it really understand what it was getting?? When G Brown walked into the Treasury in 1997 he was handed the official report which stated the economy was in its best shape since the war. His response? 'Never tell me that again', then he promptly followed the Tory spending plans. He procrastinates about his stewardship giving growth quarter on quarter. He forgets the first third were under the Tories. It is very strange how people have edited memories. Up here the Tories were the party to hate, yet all the Labour supporters queued up to buy their council houses courtesy of Maggie. They were also the first to buy the privatised shares, and then sell them for a profit. And one should never forget what came before Maggie? I remember the power cuts due to the power workers being on strike, the rubbish piling up in the streets, the dead unburied. What else? Oh yes, having to get a stamp in my passport to allow me to take the princely sum of