Kerrrrrrrrrrrrrrchinnnnnnngggggggggg!

[DimPrawn]

Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...54_964x884.jpg


Champagne socialism at it's best.

[doodab]

New labour only got in by stealing ideas from the tories. This is just more of the same.

Who are you going to vote for if you don't want a gravy training self interested git in charge?

Liberals
Greens
UKIP
BNP

Personally I reckon that if all the people who are saying "well, I would vote lib dem but it'll be a wasted vote and I don't want [labour|the tories] to get in so I'm going to vote for [tory|labour]" actually did vote lib dem they'd be in for a pleasant surprise. If you can call the yellow peril a pleasant surprise.

[Vallah]

Good to see him getting £2m consultancy fees from the bank that directly profited from his illegal war in Iraq. The lying c***.

[NotAllThere]

Consider this diagram.

See how Labour have shifted. They're more "right wing" than the Tories were in 1982. And more authoritarian than Thatcher since they won back in 1997.

[minestrone]

I got bumped from his employers a few weeks after he got the job, I blamed him, strangely his name never came up on the address book.

[doodab]

Consider this diagram.

See how Labour have shifted. They're more "right wing" than the Tories were in 1982. And more authoritarian than Thatcher since they won back in 1997.

What is most noticable about that, to me, is that the three main parties have all moved up and to the right.

[Green Mango]

What is most noticable about that, to me, is that the three main parties have all moved up and to the right.

Bollocks, the Conservatives have gone to the left.

[NotAllThere]

There is no right or left. According to that site anyway. But their argument carries weight.

[Boudica]

Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...54_964x884.jpg


Champagne socialism at it's best.

You don't really work, do you Mr Prawn?

[doodab]

There is no right or left. According to that site anyway. But their argument carries weight.

Sorry, I was referring to the orientation on the diagram. Up-down = individual liberty, left-right = economic liberty.

Bollocks, the Conservatives have gone to the left.

Between 1972 and 2008 every party has moved up (i.e. less individual liberty) and to the right (i.e. greater corporate / economic liberty i.e. less government regulation). Labour more than anyone else.

Also notable is the convergence of tories and liberals in the last five years and the clear movement of labour from the bottom left quadrant in the 70s and 80s to the top right (traditionally tory) quadrant in the 90s.

It's a shame this hasn't been picked up on by mainstream political commentators. It's been knocking around for a while. The 'left-right' divide is more convenient I suppose.

FWIW, I am Economic Left/Right: -4.75, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69, so down with Ghandi, The Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and slightly more commie than labour in the 70s.

Anyone else want to post their scores?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test