I've been finding out lately that a disturbing number of you are conservatives/Tory supporters of some stripe or another. Being somewhat of a flaming red socialist myself, I'm interested in how you guys justify the belief that the rich ought to get richer and the poor ought to fend for themselves that seems to be the Tory standpoint to me...
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Date: 2004-09-18 01:07 pm (UTC)From:Couldn't that be paraphased as 'Labour discovered, through bitter experience, that its former principles just didn't work in practice, and rather than sound nice, but be wrong, they decided to take on the heavy burden of hard, complex, but pragmatic descisions, policies and changes, which would make a positive difference, instead of an idealism which collapsed in the face of reality'.
On reflection your version was more consise so probably wins.
In typical Neil 'oppose it because it exists' I may be coming across as rather rightwing kinda chap, as it happens I'm not. Labour is too right wing for my tastes, and I'd really rather not entrust the NHS to a Tory government. However, I do oppose weak thinking whenever I find it, on whatever side, and I think you glamourise the failure of the Labour party in it's past form.
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Date: 2004-09-18 11:25 pm (UTC)From:As it happens; I think a dead stick could've won that election, so long as it wasn't Tory; but hey...
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Date: 2004-09-19 12:47 am (UTC)From:One word: strikes.
To my mind it's only post William Hague that the Tory party have achieved new depths of deader than a dead stick, before that I had some respect for them. The election kinda indicates that I was alone in this viewpoint.