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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Quite right, I can never understand why committed Tories or Labourites think it's such a good thing that their party should be permanently in power. If the Tories had been in the driving seat for the last hundred years, there'd be no welfare state, no NHS and the majority of the population would be working in terrible conditions and living in poverty. If Labour had been there for a similar length of time, we'd be living in some sort of drab, Soviet-style socialist police state. There may not be a lot of difference between the parties these days, but I'd prefer to keep the pendulum of government swinging!
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I read once somewhere that the ideal balance was two terms labour followed by one term tory - don't ask me why it was two terms labour and only one tory but that was what it said. The same applies in America too.
In recent years things have gone wrong because Labour outstayed their welcome with three terms (things only really started to go badly wrong during the third term) and in America when George Dubya was in for two terms.