The best that can be said about them is that they are no better and no worse than Brown.

I don’t even know if that isn’t even too kind.

Is it possible for anyone to be worse than Brown?

Thanks. I didn’t know you still visited. I’ll keep an eye out for “Dutch” visitors.

My, you must be having a hard time at the moment! Not one single party with views you completely espouse. Mind you, I feel the same way about the Conservatives. I’m a bit to the right of Cameron - that’s not saying much, admittedly.

Yes, I remember suggesting you join Blogpower.:) Having emigrated to the Netherlands, I’m no longer that much into UK political blogging. However, your blog is one of the few I regularly visit. I like the mix between personal and political stories. Here’s hoping you keep blogging!

“But as to the Tories being seen as electable, why ‘God forbid?’”

I think you know the answer to that one. I’m a bit to the left of new labour.

You may have forgotten but you have a lot to answer for. It was you who suggested I join Blogpower!

I’ve missed your daily posts. i’ll ry to visit moer often now.

Long, long time!

I hope you are well.

I agree with what you say about the unelectability of one party leading to the other party getting a much freer ride than they deserved.

But as to the Tories being seen as electable, why ‘God forbid?’

Many moons have passed since last I commented here.

Nich (or is it Nick)has saved me from writing too much. He’s right imo.

I think in 2005 anger at Blair masked unhappiness in general with Labour. Blair’s going allowed true views of Labour to be heard. Also the unelectability of Labour during the Thatcher years and of the Tories since 1997 allowed the governments to last longer than they would otherwise have done. Now, God forbid, with the Tories being seen as electable Labour plummet in the polls.

Yes, I agree. It all seems rather cyclical, doesn’t it? Having said that, I rather suspect that the ferocity of the public anger this time around is driven by the fact that they had actually placed a lot of trust and goodwill in Blair, Brown, and Labour. I don’t think, in the years the Tories were in office, that they ever had that much goodwill from the public. Perhaps people voted for them out of a resigned sense that they were more competent with the economy than Labour were.

As for the Tories 12 years from now, I think the public is now so jaded about politicians(”they’re all the same, etc”), that nobody will manage to work up quite the same level of anger in 12 years time. The expectations of the public have been drastically lowered, so I suspect that, so long as the Tories don’t sell us all into slavery, they will be tolerated, albeit with cynicism and contempt.

What goes around comes around.