Chris

Stepping down, yep. I think, given the number of seats the Tories gained, he would have been well able to continue to command respect as leader of the opposition. I see nothing odd ab out him poniting out he will be in his late 60s by the time of the next election.

Nope. The thing about slash and burn is that it's well known as an effective means of generating new, heathy growth. Pretty much what's been happening in the UK for the last 12 years, in fact. Or will you, like Blair and Brown, conveniently forget that many of their vaunted '50 quarters of consecutive growth' the UK has enjoyed were quarters administered by the Tories? Go on, do the maths. 50 divided by 4 is 12.5. That's 12 and a half years. Which means the first quarter in question was in 1993. Can you remember who lived in number 10 in 1993?


A very long way to go, given that despite creating one of the most complex tax/benefit systems in the developed world, Labour has presided over a real-terms fall in household incomes in the last eight years.

That is so unbelievably pig-ignorant I'm not going to legitimise it by tearing it to bits. Do grow up.

Eh? The Lib Dem share of the vote, and number of seats in Parliament, has gone up (yet again). Can I ask, do you have any knowledge of history whatsoever? Do you know anything at all about the birth of the Party you support? Clearly not, because you are obviously of the opinion that successful political parties emerge from nowhere and storm into Government more or less immediately. The modern Liberal Democrat party has been around for less than 20 years.

Oh, sorry, after all that I didn't realise you were a Tory. Norman Tebbit would be proud of you.