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Polly:

"We are watching Tony Blair being booed off stage in a hiss of hatred".

About bleeding time, I say.

"The 1997 voters who believed in Labour values should remember it always required a coalition with more ambivalent and fickle voters to win. Those who wanted more social justice, better public services, childcare, nurseries, maternity leave, a minimum wage, big increases in children's benefits, new schools, clinics, and hospitals, got more than was ever promised back then".

Quite. They must be punished.

"Tories are promising tax and spending cuts up and down the country if they win. Rightwing ideologues took over Hammersmith and Fulham a year ago from a well-run Labour group, cutting council tax by 3p, cutting £14.4m from children's services, housing, care for the frail and charity grants and closing a mental health centre. Tory Walsall is cutting vulnerable children's services, so is Swindon, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. The list of cuts elsewhere is long, but for those with short memories, that's what Conservatives usually do".

Interesting. Maybe they're worth voting for after all.

posted by Peter Briffa @ 5/01/2007 08:26:00 AM