sharkboy
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ORIGINAL: Professor Moriarty
I couldn't care less, but let me try to explain my ambivalence to show that I'm not just trolling the thread.
As any right- (or left-)thinking student of the time, I marched against the poll tax, thought Thatcher was the devil in a dress and waited so long for a labour government that was going to change everything. But, imo, it didn't. To win power the left moved right and it became increasingly difficult for me to distinguish between a conservative and labour policy. The culmination of that was a pretty awesome betrayal of the people by entering a war that no-one wanted on the basis of evidence that was a lie. If I'd have not known it was labour in power I'd have exclaimed of what else could you expect from those Tory f%$Łers. So, for me, over the time Blair presided over labour and the country, they went from CND and left of centre policies to war mongerers and a party that I can't distinguish from the right. Took all the fun out of politics for me when I discovered that this lot really could be as bad as the lot you spent so long trying to oust.
Pretty much this, but a definite no to his return. If ever there was a lesson in "be careful what you wish for" it was New Labour' homogenisation of UK party politics. Even in the run-up to the 97 election, you could say that if nothing else, at least they weren't Tory. Pity that couldn't be said by the end of that 1st term.
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