yeah that’ll be good, but a Tory PM will of course have the ability to control world oil prices…

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Andrew, I wonder if you’re perhaps too young to remember the Tories’ record on inflation? It wasn’t good!

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Peter: your argument is pointless. The Conservative party is unrecognisable from its Governments in the past in the same was as the Labour party was in 1997 was unrecognisable from the Kinnock / Foot / Callaghan era.

But if you wish me to indulge you I could refer to Dennis Healy’s begging mission to the IMF in the 70s after he and Callaghan almost bankrupted the UK.

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Peter
I remember the 3 day week, blackouts, Unions ruining the country and the awful times while Mrs Thatcher got us back on track.
This New Labour shambles is the worst government on record, it inherited a golden goose of an economy and has squandered billions and illegal war to boot.

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And would you trust David Cameron as Primeminster?
This is a man who chains a bike up to a bollard in London

And only recently called Russia “Bullies”

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wow cheap computer games, thanks gordon brown, i cant eat them can i!!

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I really can’t believe that there are people here who believe that Thatcher did anything but harm to the working people of this country – perhaps you were living in the booming South East at the time while she set about destroying the industries further North?

The current rate of inflation, whilst causing some concern is not high by the standards of the Seventies or Eighties. Only yesterday Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist, warned against talking ouselves into a recession, and proffered the opinion that we may well have reached the peak of the inflationary pressure for now.

He is a man who was very highly regarded, even by such hawks as the Daily Telegraph in his time at The Economist, and his views offer a measured opinion of our current economic situation rather thean the politically-inspired hysteria of the tabloids – we would do well to take heed of them.

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Andrew,

My recollection was that the three day week and the blackouts took place under Ted Heath’s government.

We may have future power cuts to look forward to under a future Tory administration too, but that will be because your great heroine undermined our future energy strategy for good by privatising the power utilities for short term greed and gain, and closed the coal industry out of spite towards the miners.

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After you Y Mab… I will welcome a Tory government over the utter shower/sorry excuse of an administration we have now, thank you. And it seems that with the polls showing around 45% of the British planning to vote Conservative, the country is more or less with me on this.

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Harry Saxon Esq And the polls are always right are’mt they?

i seem to recall Lord David Steel of the Liberals thinking he was going to gain power

and

Kinnock as well

based on the polls 2 years before the elction.

The fact is if labour grant families 150 pounds for heating this year
Then labour will be virtually assured of being in power for the next 10 years

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So if stuff costs more the government makes more VAT, then please please please will they not listen to the public and cut taxes in other areas (i suggest on fuel especially) because we need the money and its our money, give it back gordon please Darling the economy needs it now, not you!!

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better than the high inflation and high unemployment and high interest rate triple whammy that the incompetent tories gave us in the 90s

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Worm catcher, unfortunately what was supposed to be a Labour government has continued to reduce taxes on the ‘uber-rich’, though I accept not to the windfall extent that the Tories did so shamefully.

Labour has done well by the rich, well by the very poor, and not so well by the rest of us – I would sooner see some restraint placed upon the obscene pay rises to ‘City’ types rather than a constraint upon typically quite low-paid public sector workers, whose pay isn’t responsible for the current inflationary pressures anyway.

We mustn’t forget that the latest near-recession was caused by the unfettered greed and irresponsibility of global capitalism. Whilst the current Labour government has done diappointingly little to tackle this, we do have at least some protection for workers in a minimum wage, working hours protection etc.

If the Tories get in on a protest vote, then we should expect even fewer constraints on global capitalism, more British jobs going abroad, more current British jobs becoming subject to ‘sweatshop’ conditions, higher inflation, higher unemployment and an even more difficult time for us all.

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atleast its not as bad as when the tories were in

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