Are there any Tory voters here?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Isnt it a bit far fetched to blame it on Mrs Thatcher? Yes she encouraged the markets and took away a lot of regulation, and I certainly dont agree with everything she did, but I dont remember her ever saying that bank supervision should be completely neglected as it has been for some years now.

The Thatcher argument is over - she did it and we all have to live with it. That's why it wouldn't be any different under the Tories

[Coalman]

Ah well, we're not all Tories. I'm more of an 'almost anyone but Labour' voter.

Completely agree with you on voting anyone but labour this time.

Time for a change.

[ratewhore]

That's why it wouldn't be any different under the Tories

Biggest bunch of bollocks I've read in a long time...

[Cyberman]

Completely agree with you on voting anyone but labour this time.

Time for a change.

The problem is that if you vote LibDem you could end up with a Labour/Lib Dem coalition which we have suffered before, because it is extremely unlikely that the Lib/Dems would support the Tories. Then again, you would deserve everything that you get.

[BrilloPad]

The problem is that if you vote LibDem you could end up with a Labour/Lib Dem coalition which we have suffered before, because it is extremely unlikely that the Lib/Dems would support the Tories. Then again, you would deserve everything that you get.

As far as I rember it lasted 8 months? (Feb to Oct 1974?) It probably would be unworkable and would result in another general election within a year.

On the other hand it might just give a major kick to the main parties. They might have to try to impress the electorate.

[Cyberman]

As far as I rember it lasted 8 months? (Feb to Oct 1974?) It probably would be unworkable and would result in another general election within a year.

On the other hand it might just give a major kick to the main parties. They might have to try to impress the electorate.

Labour governments only try to impress the electorate within a year of an election by talking about adopting right-wing policies, as we have seen with their comments on immigration and crime. Once in power they drop them and slip back into tax, waste and political correctness.

The Tories always have their right wing policies and stick to them. You may not agree with them but you know what you get, and you will not get a tirade of lies and secrecy that are mark of Labour.

[Coalman]

Labour governments only try to impress the electorate within a year of an election by talking about adopting right-wing policies, as we have seen with their comments on immigration and crime. Once in power they drop them and slip back into tax, waste and political correctness.

The Tories always have their right wing policies and stick to them. You may not agree with them but you know what you get, and you will not get a tirade of lies and secrecy that are mark of Labour.

God you are blinkered and narrow minded!

Sorry - I should ignore this sh**te shouldn't I??

[Doggy Styles]

... it wouldn't be any different under the Tories

You believe it, I don't. It wouldn't be perfect, but I believe it wouldn't be the mess it is now.

This isn't aimed at you PB, but it's funny how people criticised the tories for 10 years for wanting to reduce public expenditure ("tory cuts"), but those same people are now dismissing them by saying they would have done the same profligate spending.

They can't have it both ways.

[TykeMerc]

God you are blinkered and narrow minded!

Sorry - I should ignore this sh**te shouldn't I??

I try to (see my sig) but people keep on quoting the idiot.

[DodgyAgent]

My point is Cyberman, if Dick cheney didn't react as you suggest, although he was in the Reagan Administration, why would have William Hague. The answer is, he wouldn't either. He would have taken his cue from the Bush administration and done nothing. I don't remember him mentioning it in the last election campaign. Do you?

Okay if you want to play that game. Then if labour had continued in power we would all be living in a totalitarian communist state (which is what will eventually happen under NL). Already Gordon Brown has contrived to run the economy where people are now becoming more state dependent than ever. Do you think he really cares that the government are now nationalising the banks? Do you think he ever cared that the FSA were useless?

I am sorry but I dont buy this link with Thatcher. The Tory press has been predicting this outcome now for several years, and at least Tory MPs understand the concepts of responsibility and understand markets far better than any socialist does.

A socialist is someone who has nothing and wants to share it with evryone else. They are getting their wish.