But New Labour have just carried on where the Tories left off. They are no better. Has the manufacturing industry been restored or even protected? No. Is unemployment rising? Yes. Are people losing their homes in ever greater numbers? Yes. Are taxes higher? Yes. Are 'public services' better? No. Have pensions been crippled (by Brown)? Yes. Have pensioners been better looked after? No. Have their council tax bill increases outstripped their meagre pension increases? Yes. Has there been less sleaze and corruption? No. Have we been in fewer wars? No. Have we abondoned nuclear missiles and energy? No. Is EducationEducationEducation better? No. is the NHS better? No. Are hospitals still closing? Yes. Have they presided over the demise of NHS dentists? Yes. Are community schools still being closed? Yes. Is there less Crime? No. Did they give us the promised vote on europe? No. Did they break their promise and increase university top-up fees? Yes, in England. Do the Scots vote on English only matters? Yes. Do the English vote on Scottish only issues? No. Are they weakening the Union? Yes. Did they break their promise on the 10p tax rate? Yes. Do they really think that HazelfeckinBlear is actually a good politician? Apparently Yes. Have they spent more and more of our money on a nanny state that produces no significant improvements? Yes. Have they failed miserably? Yes. Etc etc etc etc etc.......................
Honestly just how has New Labour improved things in our country 'cos they don't look very different to me, and things are generally worse if anything for the majority. Under the Tories things got very messy at the end just like they are doing now. The only thing that has been proved to me is that 3 terms of either party is too many and that the worse excesses of each can be minimised by chopping and changing them every other term of office or two
I should say, I'm not a Labour partisan by any means - I'd vote Lib Dem at the next election were it not for wanting to keep the Tories out.
But there is less crime now than in any recent period - Home Office figures back that up, as much as the Daily Mail etc would have us believe otherwise. The NHS, for all its manifold faults, is a wonderful thing - possibly the best thing about this country. I was in Australia recently and there (I didn't have a Medicare card since I was on a Tourist visa) I paid £30 to see a doctor, and £60 for a prescription. Admittedly you would get most of that back being an Aus citizen, but paying to visit the doctor?
And the minimum wage!
And things were more than 'a little messy' at the end of the Tories reign too, what about the preceding miserable decade before that?
Hazel Blears is a fucking drone, though. And James Purnell needs to be smacked in his fat mouth.
I like your final idea though, limiting terms. I'd be all for introducing proportional representation and forcing them to form coalitions, were it not for the fact that would probably let in headcases like the BNP.