"but my take on Labour ideology is that the 'whole' can be improved by lifting the 'bottom'."
Your take is wrong
Ihat nothing to do with personal wealth - it is based on equality of opportunity - the right for everybody to prove themself
You reduce that dream to "The politics of envy" - may your tongues fall out en mass
Who envies to be rich enough to have poor taste and little humanity - that's what epitomizes today's privileged
Your party once had principles - the dream that by sacrifice, poor people could better themselves
That has been long abandoned
I can think of a dozen leading Tories I once admired for something or other (I worked for some of them in London)
Now I'm hard pressed to think of one
Your Party has gone down the pan and it has taken Britain with it - go check the constant and repidly growing gap between haves and have nothings and tell me that's not so
Jim Carroll