I like that American left are miserable

[fredd bear]

I left the Labor party when they made  a bloke I considered a thug and a moron our leader. I was right; he helped Labor snatch defeat from the jaws of Victory.

You're right, if Blair hadn't turned the party into a milquetoast version of the Tories, or decided that being a war criminal and genocidaire was not an admirable thing to be, Labour would have been in power for a generation or more.

By 1997 the tories were politically, and capitalism ideologically, bankrupt.  They had run the country into the ground and destroyed British industry and commerce in the favour of foreign finance, all the while pissing Scottish oil revenues into the wind.  If, as he promised before the 1997, Blair had instituted a social democratic (and actual Labour) programme of government; instead of deepening and accelerating privitisation (he effectively privatised the NHS and education systems, two things Thatcher was afraid to do for fear of losing her head), plus becoming more slavishly entwined with US adventurism, Labour would have been in pretty much permanent power for a generation.




Instead, the only reason he won in 2001 or 2005 was because the tories were still in civil war mode, and had nobody even half way competent to stand against Blair.

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@Nomad

Crossed wires mate.   I'm an Aussie, in Australia, talking about the Australian Labor party. The thug to whom I referred was a drop kick called Mark Latham. It's my observation that Australia no longer has an effective political left wing

I've  been following the Brexit issue for some time but can't say I fully understand it. My perception is that both parties a have a complete shower in charge.  That Theresa may introduced the notion of Brexit  purely for her own political advantage. Much like the appalling Maggie Thatcher and the Faulklands War. As for Jeremy Corbyn; he just  comes across as complete cock.

Overall, it looks as if the UK is as well served by its political leaders as is Oz.

But hey, I'm only an ignorant colonial, what do I know .