Re: Brown to stand down
Thatcher is not an element in this at all. Cameron is probably farther away than that than Blair was tbh.
I think at this moment in time it is about stability for the country. That is why I would be content to see a Lib/Con pact.
Any pact that has just two main parties rather than six or seven has to be better.
However, whoever gets in faces an uphill battle.
TheMightyQuinn said:mackenzie said:So, if a party supports us all moving to the Moon without oxygen but are "Working Class" then you would vote for them?
New Labour are NOT Socialist.
They have done some things that I agree with and welcome (National Minimum Wage, The Irish agreement to name but two) but I could never agree with their stance on massive immigration (which was ridiculous, and I had to deal with it on the front line. And I was one of the moderates on that one), their determination to draw us into a War that we had no right to be in, their complete SLEAZE with the expenses matters (where they completely seemed to forget us, the "working class") and finally, the sheer arrogance from Day One. Oh, and the determination to scrap Clause 4 (probably the first thing that showed this party were never Socialists).
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They will never be Socialists. They are Tory lite.
And that is why they were elected in 1997.
And why they have fallen now.
No. I wouldn't vote for them but I wouldn't run to the tories either!
When City lose I don't go to Old Trafford. When my girlfriend pisses me off I don't go and shag her sister.
Politics is about more than party politics, it's about how a human conducts themselves.
New Labour are/were a joke. I agree. However, give me 'left wing lite' over the return of Thatcherism anyday.
Thatcher is not an element in this at all. Cameron is probably farther away than that than Blair was tbh.
I think at this moment in time it is about stability for the country. That is why I would be content to see a Lib/Con pact.
Any pact that has just two main parties rather than six or seven has to be better.
However, whoever gets in faces an uphill battle.