The Wrong Game?

I do, I'm amazed that Tony Blair is still in Downing Street, and will leave of his own accord to live in a rich and comfortable retirement. No doubt there will be a series of very highly-paid U.S. lecture tours, and a well-spun autobiography that attempts to show his years in power in the best possible light.

But history judges people by what they have done, not by what they say they have done.

Tony Blair and his New Labour lackeys at home have overseen a phenomenal rise in prices in the housing market, rising interest rates, and record bankruptcies and housing repossessions. The pensions crisis is growing due to wrong New Labour decisions in the past, and there is an insufficient supply of decent affordable housing for millions of people. Huge sums of money have been spent and often wasted in vainly trying to run the NHS as a business. Facilities like Post Offices and Country Hospitals and Nursing Homes are being closed down at an unprecedented rate.

Abroad New Labour have got us deeply involved in an American war we cannot ever win, and which is bleeding this country of millions of pounds every day of every week and month of every year. It doesn't look like the new incoming Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will be pulling us out of Irag in a hurry, either.

But the New Labour politicians who brought in the measures which resulted in our present chaos are very well paid while they are in office, and get a handsome pension on retirement. Many have got themselves on the boards of big companies with which New Labour runs hand in hand, and are now very rich men.

So obviously you and I are in the wrong game. But could we stand the deceit and the lying and the general dishonesty of their game?