Yes, I have watched the Long Walk to Finchley-The Margaret Thatcher story on TV, and yes, I have an admiration for the Lady and the determination with which she against all the odds facing a woman of her calibre at the time, and her steely grip on the possibility of power at the top and all that-and I do recognise her as a fellow human being-but my love for her stops there right at the crossing before the locomotive of Toryism breezes past in its headlong rush to make a cool million. For its adherents and proponents of class division, spendwells and exclusivists, while the rest of us were shut out, ostracised from its vainglorious dream of an ignorant aristocratic utopia. She if you remember cut back on things as needless as children's school milk and welfare benefits, heralded the enslavement occupational-therapy-mentality programme known as the YTS, and caused redundancies for lower classes to become as common as in her day capitalist enterprises for the fortunate and elite who were born into class privilege in the first place, while the miners, dockers and lowerpaid workers were trying to maintain their grip on some form of income The Magdalene was gleefully prising their fingers from the hope under her tyranny of any survival for those who just wanted a reasonably-paid job to call their own. Thankfully, it is now with Cameron and his crew of CONservative Cronies and their eye on the top notch this election that they are coming to realise themselves that in the Labourites their is actually some real competition; but while Cameron and co. fan themselves in their pristine imagery of a brighter better Britain, Labour have actually got their noses to the grindstone with a view to the hard work ahead of how best to serve in fairness and equality the people of Britain, should they win.
Although I appreciate your view of politics, Major, and you are entitled to your belief-system as I am to mine, I still think the clarity of the vision on the left is better than that of the right, because the disasters which have hit Britain economically in recent years would have been accompanied with even more scapegoatism and blame towards the Tories had they been in power. It is a matter of hard times and how to bear them that has to be borne responsibly upon the shoulders of either Brown or Cameron this year and next. Time will tell. All I can say here is, May the Best Party Win. With respect, Major!