""Look, it's very simple. The avowed intent of the Labour party (or at least until Tony B. Liar) was to advantage the less advantaged. That of the conservative party was to retain advantage for the already advantaged. That's the core principle.""

You and I have never heard in debate, or seen in print, the expression of a desire to further enrich the already rich, rather the opposite in fact.

That core principle is merely your ungenerous interpretation.

Has it never occurred to you that governments actually don't have the power to impoverish rich people to satisfy your envious desires. Wealth, of its nature, tends to create more wealth, largely resulting in an immunity to the ups and downs of economic climates.

If it were as easy as you claim to deal with taxing the rich, surely your preferred party had ample opportunity over thirteen years, and signally failed to do so, but I suspect that they had just enough common sense to realise that rich people and corporations paying some tax and creating employment for the party's core voters was slightly better than having them all bugger off abroad and pay nothing and create no jobs at all.

Don T.