Well thanks for that link on NuLabs record on election pledges DMcG.

BBC - the undoubtedly unbiased source that it is, or would have us think it is.

Amazed to read that NuLab has not put up taxes, yet everybody is a damn sight worse off now than they were in 1997. Of course the criteria that the Beeb were measuring against was "direct" taxation. Blair & Brown were great believers in indirect or "stealth" taxation, which has rocketted in the last 11 years. By the bye DMcG who was it that was going to dispense with the 10p Tax band, but had to wind their necks in as it would provoke a back-bench rebellion and lose the Government a vote in the Commons that would cause Gordon of Cartoon to go to the country?

Also amazed to see that the pledges relating to the NHS have been met, the Beeb must therefore believe that the NHS is better because of it. If they do they must be the only group in the country, apart from NuLab, that think that way.

Education the same

Defence the same

Foreign Policy the same

List goes on and on

What they have done is what most Labour governments do - they throw money at things without addressing the problem of what is actually wrong - recipe for disaster. Tony Blairs timing was perfect, he stood from under well before the cracks became too wide to ignore.