British Elections 2007

[marshlander]

lol, didn't she fix your economy from the Labour Socialist policies that had hurt the economy before her?

Fix the economy? She certainly "fixed" lots of people. She split the country, created havoc, used the police in her war against the working classes, created the conditions for selfishness and brutality to thrive (infamously claimed "there is no such thing as society"), presided over the introduction of evil legislation such as the appalling "section 28" the effect of which was to set back gay emancipation by many years, encouraged the US in its bullying wars against small countries that did things differently, saw the gap between the haves and the have nots widen ... Her interventions and policies threw whole communities into chaos. Next time you watch Billy Elliott take careful notes. Now say this after me, "Does Canada really need a despotic, evil witch to cure whatever ills I might think need to be addressed?" There were even many within the rank and file Tory membership who thought Thatcher's brand of Conservatism was an aberration. The patriarchal attitudes of previous tory governments seemed positively benign when compared with Thatcher's assault which, incidentally, also split the elected members of the Conservative party so deeply it is still in recovery.

Labour is weird...their out and out publically "socialist".

Don't get Labour confused with the so-called "New Labour" introduced by Tony Blair's governments. Many would disagree that New Labour was anything like traditional Labour. There was, in fact, a rout that almost amounted to a witch-hunt against many who held on to traditional labour socialist values. New Labour pursued many of the policies introduced by the Tories, particularly privatisation of public services and took them even further to the right, a feat many thought would be impossible.

What's wrong with being "publically socialist" ... whatever it means?

There may be many things about labour policy in England (I don't know enough to comment on the rest of the UK) that make me uncomfortable, but the country has been a much better place to live under Labour than under the Tory rule.