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Is The Nation Ready For Hard Line Socialism Again?

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ToraToraTora | 16:18 Wed 25th Sep 2013 | News
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24235688
Now I know many on here would love it but they've probably forgotten our last flirtation.
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Enough of the past. Cameron, Clegg and Milliband all want the middle ground because the British public have NEVER voted for an extreme party.

Except on a few minor issues, they are indistinguishable from each other. UKiP might be offering a credible further right alternative, but there isn't a further right credible alternative to the Labour Party. ( Unfortunately).
A further LEFT credible alternative to the Labour Part is what I meant to post.
No I agree with TTT
Red Ted we used to call him. Others called him Pouf and +ueer
but you know there is no accounting for taste.
even on this thread

I luuuurved my new word innaction - the second n is for No
and that is what Red Ted said the whole time - no No NO

esp-No not that woman ! shows he was a red'un.

And..... Qizzie can't add - you wil notice that there are more years between 1955 - 1979 than there are in the sum of the all the years of the prime minister

.... and the answer is.... Harold Wilson ( best Tory leader WE've had, I can tell you ) had six and not four

1964 - 1966 - let us recall Desmond Donnelly and Woodrow Wyatt
1966-1970 - landslide - time of the lavender notes from Lady Faulkender
aaaand.. 1974 - 1976 at which time he suddenly resigned - possibly to head off scandal.

well its lucky someone on this thread can add !
"Now I know many on here would love it but they've probably forgotten our last flirtation."

Ha ha...mental...
Pedant

// 1966-1970 - landslide - time of the lavender notes from Lady Faulkender //

The lavender list was on Wilson's resignation in '76.
and while we all debate the who was / is a left or right winger - the energy
companies have and continue to take their captive audience / consumer for a ride .

Lights will go out / companies will go bankrupt ( scaremongering by the energy companies ) - What a load of bullsh1t
Pedant, you're right; I not only missed out Callaghan, but I forgot that Wilson had two bites of the cherry! Never mind, the Tories still had more time in No 10 (13/11) than Labour did between 1955 and 1979, so the notion of "sovietisation" then is still absurd.
yeah thanks Gromit - but even so

TTT is the political analyst for me !
Of course the last prime ministers to impose energy price controls were those hardline socialists John Major and Margaret Thatcher.
Opening up the energy market to more companies, encouraging competition and forcing prices down for the private customers and small businesses sounds like a Tory policy to me.
But if takes Ed to do it, I'm happy with that :-)

It is interesting btw that so called "geeky" Mr Miliband is calling for 3 TV debates during the election campaign while voter-friendly Mr Cameron would prefer just the one, it seems.
"Lights will go out / companies will go bankrupt ( scaremongering by the energy companies ) - What a load of bullsh1t "

Absolutely - these companies seem to have adopted the role of new Scargillite NUM :-)
Interestingly though guess what: EDF the French company, where prices are regulated, has kept deafeningly quiet so far
I would be quite happy if we had a government of the sort we had in 1945, who thought it was a good idea for us to have a National Health Service.

If Labour government is so terrible, why did the British people utterly reject the wonderful leader that they had in Churchill, in favour of Attlee ?
War time Prime ministers do not usually make good peacetime Prime Ministers, two totally different disciplines.

So the colour they are wearing, in that particular case, was rather irrelevant.

And living on one good idea of nearly 70 years ago - 'The NHS' is perhaps not really a vote winner. The majority have moved on, even if you have not.
Ed has enough on his hands fighting with the union bosses, though i cannot confirm this, on the front page of my paper it says that £2bn was wiped off value of energy giants after Millibands talk on bid to fix fuel prices.
mikey, the people who introduced the welfare state had no idea the population would grow so big nor indeed live as long, so it's become a leviathan and will eventually have to be pared back. It was a good thing but also a bad thing, it has indeed made some very dependent on welfare, and we all expect to get hospital, doctor treatments don't we ?
red ed? pink ed more like it - a fart into a wet paperbag has more oompf than he does!!
he is not his father....

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