[jambutty]

I don’t think that you can call pensioners a minority group garinda.

For as long as I can remember we have only ever had either a Tory or Labour party in office. Note I state ‘in office’ as opposed to being ‘in power’ as new labour like to call it. Calling it being ‘in power’ says it all for me. Also during that time we haven’t even had a democratically elected government but an oligarchy.

With the Tories in office they tend to look after themselves for starters and then the well off, business leaders and professionals and if there is anything left in the pot the working classes get a few crumbs.

With New Labour in office, who have encroached on the Tory ground, they also tend to look after themselves first and also look after business leaders and professionals and if there is anything left in the pot the working classes get a few crumbs although it might be more than the Tories gave them.

Old Labour at least tried to look after the working classes but were often prevented from doing so by the country’s economics at the time left by the previous administration and by the Mandarins in Whitehall. Not forgetting the unions who really messed things up when they couldn’t get Labour to do their bidding.