What are the main differences between Labour and the Conservatives?
Barb E Dahl
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For the layman, is it suffice to say Labour represents the working classes and the Conservatives the middle classes?
Is it really that simple?
Is it really that simple?
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One wears a red rosette, the other wears a blue rosette and both represent corporate interests. Other than the colour of the rosette there's nothing between them.
I agree and it's pretty disgusting.
Thanks, TS. And I guess whatever the incumbent party says, the opposition says, well, the opposite.
What's PPE?
In reality it doesn't seem to matter a jot who's in power.
Course it matters Labour wreck the finances of the country,
And what are you? The Chancellor or something? :yawn:
No just someone thats read the news.
Between Tony Blair "New Labour" and The Tories, not much difference. Its why I wish uber Blairities would leave the Labour Party.
News as in "real news" or the bullshit that passes for tabloid toilet paper?
If the Tories decided to give every family £1m each, Labour would oppose it. And if Labour gave tax breaks to the rich the Tories would oppose it.
Its a strange world is opposition.
Tories dont give enough of a shit to pretend.
The outcome is the same regardless.
That's it, I'm out.
Regards,
Cypher
anyone who thinks 'new' Labour represent the working class were probably first time voters in 1997,
If anything it's the general 'tone' that I despise about the Tories,
Labour have certainly changed with the times and moved more towards the 'centre'
The Tories and most of their supporters and backers have hardly moved at all in the past 50-60 years,
They still pretty much blame the poor for being poor, They despise trades unions or any organisation that supports a level playing field, (while never, or rarely, openly admitting it of course)
The current lot are hell bent on attacking and scapegoating the 'new enemies' (after castrating the unions the last time they held power) they are, the welfare system and those who depend on it, They have managed, in a little under two years to do something which I would have thought impossible just 10 years ago,
and that is to turn huge numbers of the British public against the sick and disabled, and everyone on the dole,
A large percentage of the public actually believe that,
A/the current economic crisis was CAUSED by the sick the disabled and the unemployed,
and, B/ that the current economic crisis will be resolved by 'punishing' the sick the disabled and the unemployed,
This has been done deliberately and cynically by this government in order to deflect public attention away from those who actually DID create this mess,
and THAT is why I shall continue to reluctantly vote Labour, Because sadly at the moment they are the only party who can rid us of the Tories.
These are MY opinions based on MY life and experiences, other opinions and experiences are also available,
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Not quite. While both are on the corporate payroll, Labour still has some compassion. They reversed the extremism of Thatcher and Major, in that, e.g. where the former abolished wages councils Labour bought in a minimum wage and signed up to EU Social Charter.
About 1994 my local hospital took self governing status under the NHS management policy of Majors government. The hospital managers then gave themselves an 11% pay rise, and sent me and others a letter informing us we would now have to pay £80 a year for a vital treatment without which we would die.
The latter example perfectly illustrates the differance between Conservative and Labour. Labour were as content as the Conservatives with 'top' people, hospital managers or anyone else in the most senior of posts, filling their boots at the publics expense, but they outlawed the treatment charge I referred to above.