You shouldn't be so quick to make assumptions about what goes on in other people's minds Richard.

It is perfectly possible to espouse the basic principles and concepts of UK Conservatism, while still having concern for those less fortunate than oneself.

Your trouble is that once you decide that one way is wrong, it becomes totally without merit in your cosmic perception, and anyone who disagrees with you is stupid, deluded, evil, or perm combination of the three.

Tories are no more inherently evil than socialists. It is the mistakes they make that cause problems, not the fact that they are right or left wing in their views.

I am a firm believer in the Conservative principle of allowing citizens to decide for themselves what they want to do with their lives, their finances, and their property.

I am disgusted by the "Nanny State" mentality of New Labour, which is in any case a cover for their obsessive need to CONTROL EVERYTHING.

At the same time I have concern for those citizens who need help to manage. I don't want to see ONE person getting less than his needs.
So that is the point where I INSIST that my government should ACT, and if the government confined itself to that level of action, it would improve immensely its capacity to do a good job.

Instead of trying to tear down those who CAN manage their affairs successfully, government should be about ENABLING those who currently cannot. I can't believe that anyone but the most blinkered communist would want to REDUCE quality of life to its lowest common level, rather than RAISE it to the level of the higher achievers.

Don T.