On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:22:49PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> ok i reserve the right to quit this thread at any time, however ....
>
> But hasn't `new' labour's example shown that there is no place for
> socialism in modern government? Hasn't their move to capitalism been
> really a well spun admission of defeat? How can any socialist not
> feel that when it came to the crunch socialism was rejected by
> intelligent people who understood its principals and benefits
> intimitadly because they could see it would not work for modern
> Britain?
Alternatively ... the Labour Party is not and never has been socialist,
but they at least used to embrace some of the same policies as socialists
do. Being in reality just another form of Social Democratic party, they
decided that it was in their best interests to pander to the dribbling
morons who believe what they read in the tabloid press, and so ditched
any remaining hints of socialism and became just another Tory party*.
Although without such a witless and ineffectual leader.
I have no intention of voting for Bliar or for Vague. If there were a
party standing here on a platform of devolution/independence (such as an
alliance of the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and some (currently non-existent)
English equivalent, they'd get my vote. Do the Lib Dems think along
these lines? No-one knows cos the LDs have never seemed to have any
policies ever.
* - although clearly not quite as evil as the real thing.
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