I think as a long term Labour supporter. You learn not expect miracles. Harold Wilson refused to support America in Vietnam, and America exacted a terrible revenge - cosying up to the IRA, cancelling defence contracts, generally wiping their arse on the special relationship...

Blair was running scared of that happening again. harold Wilson's galloping pragmatism mark II.

In the other hand, many good things got done. Things that wouldn't occur to a Tory admin. Just today, they want to make the O level exams something that won't lie within the hope of ordinary kids. It will be something once again - just saying - working class, no rich parents - you ain't good enough. The idea of having an education system that is 'comprehensive' - holding something achievable for the whole population is anathema to the tories. Same as their view of the tax system. the health service and everything else.

If you'd lived at the bottom of society - you would understand.