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I am in total agreement with all who say the conservative set this country one the road to ruin, and have done it on more than one occasion, but have to point out that, until maggie sorted the miners out and therefore the unions, Labour always gave some power back to the unions when they came back to power, not this time, they have had opportunity to change things, but have actually carried on in a lot of ways just as the tory's would have done, new labour in my opinion is almost tory, one of the giveaways is the fact that, the funding for Labour came largely from union contributions, much of it now comes from industry and the fatcats within industry, so they wont go against the bosses in any big way anymore, nor have they put the money back into council housing since maggie sold the council houses (and she sold them because of the state of disrepair would have cost billions), so the people who bought council houses, thinking they were better off on the property ladder lost out, either because the property boom end crippled them, or because the condition of the houses left big repair bills for the purchasers, so many were actually worse off, my point is, Labour are not all that these days either!