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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] I was just struck by how long it's been. I mean, I felt all the 18 years of the previous regime. But, when new Labour were elected 13 years ago, well, put it this way, the notion of going to have a look on this internet thing to see if I could find any info on those strange new ships in First Contact hadn't occurred to me (and didn't for about another three months). Labour didn't deserve to be in power anymore. Not that the economic crisis was their fault per se - no government would have done any different, and kept the financial sector properly regulated despite the certain total opposition of the City. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas! But they blew it. Or rather, Brown did. He could be said to have blown his whole life, really - by standing aside for Blair to run for the leadership in 1994; by refusing to support a coup against Blair 5 years ago, by not holding that election in 2007 once he was finally Leader. In recognising that Party infighting was the curse of the Labour Party, he made his desire to avoid any infighting a rod for his own back. Ironically, his decision to keep Britain out of the Euro (for largely personal reasons again, as it would diminish his power as Chancellor) may come to be regarded as his greatest hour in light of current events in the Eurozone. I had a lot of hope for him at one time - I thought that his relative integrity would enable him to outshine Blair's tenure and become one of the truly great Prime Ministers - if he ever actually made it to Number 10. But as people are going to find out, a lot of his economic mircale was smoke and mirrors: his over-use of PFI deals for big public projects (very costly in the long term) enabled a lot of spending to be kept off the budget books and make it look as though his fiscal rules were being adhered to. To quote [URL=http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/malcolm-tucker]Malcolm Tucker[/URL], today: "I have spoken with the Gordon. He's very tired. As I'm sure you know, all of the carbon in our bodies was created in the white heat at the centre of stars billions of years ago. We know this intellectually. But it's only when looking at Gordon's face that you really feel it." I'm generally coming round to the idea of a Tory government that can't do much. It won't last long - they'll never give the Lib Dems what they want in terms of electoral reform: indeed, the Tories' stated plans to reduce the number of MPs will make the Commons even LESS representative. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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