""But to pretend that the economic mess (currently engulfing the western world) is the sole fault of New Labour is damn silly.""

Nobody is saying that the initial banking collapse was the fault of the Labour Government, though they did spend thirteen years encouraging the accumulation of personal debt and the removal of all restraints from those who aggressively marketed that debt.

The extent to which it has crippled this country, however, undeniably was the fault of those who squandered the ample funds which they inherited from the previous TORY government, and compounded the crime by selling our gold reserves, the very thing that backed our currency, at rock bottom price.

You cannot deny that we would have ridden out this trouble with much greater ease had this not happened.

Therefore I do blame them, and only them, for our current problems.

""Plus he's seen Thatch get some easy plaudits for the Falklands - easy for her - not the soldiers and sailors who fought and perished.""

So you believe that there are British Citizens who do not deserve the concern and support from their government which you enjoy as of right?

Don T.