"The prudent Chancellor and unelected PM Gordon Brown proceeded to remove virtually all remaining restrictions from the activities of the financial sector, and encourage record levels of personal and national debt."

Just read D(W)T's remark from 26 May 11 - which I must have missed last time round. A bit late to reply now - but here goes.

I don't disagree with any of that, Don - the last Labour government, and the one before that, were an absolute disgrace! 'Red on the outside, deep, dark blue on the inside'. Grubby, incompetent, stupid hypocrites! I will certainly never vote for the idiots ever again.

I was at a dinner party the other night with a load of Labour Party members. They were ranting on about this "rotten government" and invoking the memory of Ramsey MacDonald (who is currently revolving so fast in his grave that he's registering on seismographs) and all boasting about their "working class roots" (although most of them were very comfortably off academics and retired teachers and the like) and other tiresome sh*t of that nature. Then I realised that they were reserving all of their wrath for the LibDems - who they were determined to destroy. At present, as I see it, the LibDems are the only bulwark between us and the Tories. If Labour succeeds in destroying them we will all be at the mercy of a rabid, right-wing Tory government. But Labour would love that, wouldn't they? Then they can strut around, beating their breasts declaiming what noble, ideologically perfect 'socialists' they all are and how all they want to do is to defend the rights of the 'workin' klarss' ...

Until Labour gets elected again (God help us!) - then their leadership will be de-regulating again like crazy and worming their way up the arses of Big Business - and you won't hear a peep out of the 'noble socialist' rank and file!