Thread: The Tories
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Old 25-09-2012, 09:04   #1971
Houseboy
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Re: The Tories

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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy View Post
Houseboy, yes I am a capitalist and therefore right wing, unfortunately that means you and others on here believe that to be a blue through and through.
I watched the last Labour government act just like their predecessor. In some ways worse, the off the balance sheets PFI deals Gordon and Tony made with their new best friends the Bankers. Plunging our health service, schools etc into massive debts and creating a time bomb of debt for years to come.
Let's face it Gordon Brown in the first term, blew away £2 billion pounds by selling over half of our Gold Reserves when the market was at a all time low.
Very shrewd.
So are the current lot any better?
Who knows, we will only find out in years to come.
Personally I feel that all politicians should be taken outside and .......
Don't disagree with your last point at all (about politicians, etc.).
The thing is you and I are probably the opposite sides of the same coin. You are right wing without necessarilly being a Tory (if I read you right) and I am left wing whilst being quite a way from being a Labour supporter just now.
Capitalism is fine if it is kept under some sort of control (that is where the "mixed economy" (prior Thatcher) came into it's own. But left unfettered it descends into what even some Tories in the past have described as the unacceptable face of capitalism.
Unfortunately I fear that that is what modern Toryism has become.
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