So you did mean to say that you hadn't voted for them since before Blair became leader. Forgive my reluctance to believe that, but the reason I somehow doubt it is that going by what you write there is absolutely no way on this Earth that you would have failed to vote Labour in the 1997 election after all those years of "Tory misrule" - you wouldn't have been able to resist the temptation to assist in the removal of a Tory Government.

Have I described the "British people lazy scroungers and British industry as crap not worth preserving"?

I think my condemnation was of successive British Government who have created a welfare system that encourages people to become lazy scroungers and trapped within a system that was only ever envisioned as providing a temporary safety net. As to British Industry being crap - what ALL OF IT?? I will let you run on blanket generalisations, I prefer to deal in specifics and fact. The bits that were crap have gone to the wall, the bits of those bits that were good still survive and thrive.