For as long this debate focuses on the past and reruns the miner's strike, maggie, wilson/callaghan then it's going nowhere. WE need to look forward not backwards, looking back tells us very lttle about what we need to do now.

It's thirteen years since a Tory government, nearly twenty since Maggie (this years first time voters won't even remember her) even further for the miner's strike, the winter of discontent et al. Todays world is very different as are the parties, I no longer recognise this Labour Party as the one I was once a member of, the Colonel Blimps in the Conservatives say the same thing (the true heir to Thatcher is probably UKIP).

I am still waiting for one of the parties to tell the truth about how much pain is going to be required to sort out the current mess and how they're going to stop the banks holding us to ransom again. That party will probably get my vote.

Steve