I'm not a lib dem, mate. Been a Labour supporter for 40 years. Yippee for the Commonwealth Games, just like Nero used to do to keep his subjects quiet. As for regeneration, do you mean the £250 000 flats in city centre that ordinary people can't afford to buy? Or the councile houses on sale round here for £150 000? Or Harvey Nicks perhaps? Or giving that nice commonwealth games stadium away to some football club? Brilliant stewarship of the publice purse, eh? Or how about a police force with just about the worst clearup rates in the country, or those chic little spots - all with labour councillors, with some of the lowest life expectancy in UK, or all those secondary schools , none of which can even get up to the national average for GCSEs? Or the gun crime in Moss Side? How about the "regeneration" in Moston, Gorton, Openshaw, Miles Platting, Droyslden, Openshaw, and so forth? Proud of that are you? Or how about or wonderful manufacturing base? All those maginificent factories feeding , house and clothing the world!! Of course Labour have done some good things. But don't give me this rose-tinted spectacles crap. And as for "being up my own arse", well thanks for the thought, but I'm not double jointed. Why don't you extend the similar to Saint Tony being up George Bush's arse? Proud of that as a Labour voter are you? When you voted Labour, did you do so in order to be led into a war under false pretences in support of neo-Fascists' world domination plans, or Cabinet ministers married to tax avoidance lawyers who make a living teaching the wealthy how to avoid the taxes the rest of you have to pay, not to mention helping far-right Italians with mafia connections to run offshore tax havens, or a government which gives lordships to people who'll give money to the labour party? If youre so proud of labour, go look at how much pensions and average wages have risen during Labour's tenure. Then go look at how much house prices have risen in the same time, how much personal debt has risen. Then go look how much top directors' salaries have risen in the same period.l Then you might - just might - realise why Margaret Thatcher says that her greatest acheievement is New Labour.

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