[Margaret Pilkington]

Eric you are right...absolutely spot on. When Labour added 'new' to the name of the party, it ditched all the socialist ideals...those that working men, trade
unionists worked so very hard to instil in politicians way back when Labour was for the working man.
It courted those who had money, much as the tory party has always done.
I always thought the Tony Blair government was as tory as you could get....but they couldn't call it that could they?....they wanted all those who had been brainwashed (is that too strong a word?)while growing up to support them - New Labour bamboozled these people into thinking that the Labour party still worried about the working man, and had his interests at heart.

And politics has become a profession........it is almost like the oldest one in the world, where you can have what you want as long as you have the money rattling in your pocket...if you are poor, then you can go and whistle.

Now, where did I put my anti-cynicism pills?