it sure look to me like the purpose of progressive governments is to repair the damage of right wing deregulation and over spending.

thatcher created real deficits for her whole term, only covered up by oil revenues. then she deregulated starting the financial abuse. this started the deindustrialzation and debt.

regan did much the same.

in canada the mulroney tories ran nine years of the largest deficits in canadian history and doubled our debt. the "terrible" loiberals ran eleven years of surplusees and kept most of the social programs. now harper has run back to back deficits that gain set the record for size. and they plan to keep it up untill 2015. they have already wiped out the liberal pay down of the long term debt. they will double it before they are through.

there is a reason for this.. the massive spending increases and tax cuts creates a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. the richest corporations and people no longer pay taxes and shift the responsibility to the governbment and the poorer tax payers .

this has been a sea change. it is not unlike france before the revolution. the upper classes avoided all taxes. eventually the weight of crushing taxation led to the revolution.

i think revolution is way off but the stagnancy of western economies is bot going to change untill the richest pay taxes and agreee to needed regulation.

i like lord salisberry. he said: "a successfull conservative party can delay essential reform legislation by at least fifty years"

at least he was honest

of course i pray for alba independence then a law of return for all us diaspora gaels who were ethniclly cleansed from our homes by the genocidal british empire. however the result could be a built in tory majority which should get english people thinking how screwed uo their culture and beliefs are and have been for hundreds of years. they never pass up a war.

in canada if quebec left confederation, we would lose a bulkward of progress and get a bilt in tory majority. that should make english canadians think how screwed up english canadian culture has been as the result of being part of the genocidal empire.

alba gu breath!! oila a alba!