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Originally Posted by SonicBebs
well, stuff like taking (tricking) the country into war, killing civil servants who could prove they tricked us, invading Afganistan, fucking up the economy while making me (and you?) pay for the banks greed, employing a senior officer to advise on his specialist area and then sack him when the truth doesn't fit your spin, pretending to be labour (left wing) when really they're just torries in disguise. That kinda thing
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The war that Labour backbenchers tried to revolt against, but found that it was passed with Tory co-operation (and was only seriously resisted by LD)? The think tank headed by a senior Tory which recommended going into Iraq on the basis of false information about WMDs?
Economy would've been fucked anyway (you can't predict a recession, you can only react to it), but putting money into the banks from public funds rather than leaving it to the markets to continue raping it (the Tory line) makes more sense to me (although I'd agree more stringent caps on things like pensions are needed)
We all live with national minimum wage now, something that again the Tories would leave to the markets to decide (and we've all read Das Kapital, we know what happens when markets are left to their own devices). Not 'left' left-wing, but certainly left of the Tories.
Senior adviser bit I've got nothing on, but it's hardly privatising everything in sight and steamrollering over trade unions, is it?