Cost of living under Labour

Roger, you are right to consider whether or not the conservatives have anything else to sell off. An even more sinister strategy, as proposed by D.C. a few months ago, is for the conservatives to back a policy of selling homes to hard-working familes while the land owner retains title deed of the land. People will have mortgages on the home without owning the land. How bad is that?

Lots of good intelligent comments here but my view is simple.
All political party's p%ss in the same pot.
The conservatives have spent the last 11 years or so slating almost everything the labour party has done, but will they reverse anything when they get into power, i don't think so.
And labour are no better either.
Remember the Poll tax. My rates when from £100 to £800 per year almost over night. Labour was shouting from the highest soap box for months how wrong it was. Now, when labour got in power did your rates go back down, mine did'nt.

Labour or the conservatives are not at fault for the price rise in oil but you have to blame the torys for closing all the coal mines in the 80's. We are sat on over 100 years of coal reserves in the UK. And labour must be blamed for not investing in nuclear power.
As a result we buy coal/electricity at a high price from overseas.

Sue thank god that there is someone out there with some common sense. You are correct most of our financial problems have been caused by Thatcher's policies. She sold off all of the utilities to here cronies, they are now reaping the benefit we are paying the cost. The current crisis was casued by the American's. I do not believe that the Tory's would have done any better in the present circumstances they might have looked after their cronies better but who gives a s**t about them. My main complaint about Labour is that they should ensure that the utilities are run to benefit the customers with reasonable profits. They should inforce a windfall tax on excess profits. Ensure that some of the profits are used to create the infrastructure that is required to ensure cheaper energy costs. We have minimal oil & gas storage facilities in this country whereas the French have large facilities so there energy costs are lower they can smooth out the fluctuations of the market by buying in bulk whne prices are low. We have been screwed by the greed of those with the most who want even more. Why is there a third world 1. Greed of the Multi Nationals they have never paid a fair price for the raw materials except oil where OPEC have realised the negotiating strength that they have. Tea, Coffee, Coco etc have been purchased at a low price and sold at a high price for years. Whats the point in having billions its about time that the greedy b******d's learnt that you cant take it with you. This government should increase the tax burden on the well off because you can be sure that DC and his tribe will not!!!!!

Arthur, if you wish to use that as an argument I would simply ask who was in power when we failed to either qualify or failed to reach the finals for both the World & European cup on countless occasions? I think that you will find that the Torys win hands down.

Roger from London
Who was in power in 2008 when we failed to qualify for the European Championships?