> Brimstone wrote:

>> ®i©ardo wrote:

>>> Brimstone wrote:

>>>> ®i©ardo wrote:

>>>>> Brimstone wrote:

>>>>>> ®i©ardo wrote:

>>>>>>> Brimstone wrote:

>>>>>>>> Knight Of The Road wrote:

>>>>>>>>> I had my car serviced today and had to give the Government
>>>>>>>>> £27.20 for the priviledge. What the fuck is that all about?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We didn't ask for loads of people to go to Iraq or Afghanistan
>>>>>>>>> to fire rockets about, we didn't ask for the 2012 Olympics,
>>>>>>>>> we're not currently demanding ID cards.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And we never wanted that Dome thing either.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> When is Gordon Brown going to realise that working-class people
>>>>>>>>> voted him in and working-class people are going to vote him out?

>>>>>>>> The Tories introduced VAT as a result of them taking us into the
>>>>>>>> EEC/EU. So, nothing to to do with Brown, blame Heath.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> ...and Labour fought them tooth and nail on the issue?

>>>>>> It was Thatcher who signed the Maastrict Treaty, that brought about
>>>>>> even closer integration. So for al the Tories hot air about the UK
>>>>>> remianing "independent" they're the party which has tightened the
>>>>>> links with the EU.

>>>>> ...and Labour fought them tooth and nails on the issue?

>>>> Beside the point.

>>> Not at all.

>>
>> When discussing the lack of consistency between the attitudes and
>> actions of one party, what has the behaviour of another party got to
>> do with it?
>>

> Of course, in true Socialist style it *must* be someone else's fault,
> but the Labour Party only has itself to blame by lacking the guts to
> repeal it when they came to power, had they felt it was that bad.
>
> It is much the same with the trade union legislation introduced by the
> Tories. Despite lots of windbagging at the time, nothing was
> subsequently done to repeal it by the Labour Party for the simple reason
> that, however it may have seemed at the time, the Tories had shot
> themselves in the foot by taming the unions and allowing the Labour
> Party to become electable. However, as yet again a Labour Government has
> bankrupted the country, they will soon be kowtowing to their trade union
> paymasters who are again scenting wielding power and cranking up their
> demands. Even more reliance will be put on their funding than
> previously, given that most other sources of finance are rapidly
> distancing themselves from a bankrupt party and the possibility of being
> tainted by association with rather more than whispers of dirty deeds.
>