1. This is an unbiased forum. If it wasn't you wouldn't be posting here. It is free to anyone to contribute in any way they like, as long as that contribution falls within our Terms of Use (see link at the bottom).
2. Although I am a Labour party member and I created this website, that shouldn't (and doesn't) stop people like yourself joining the debate.
3. My point about your contributions is simple - your reply to every comment/article goes something along the lines of, "Perhaps Leech isn't great but at least he didn't invade Iraq". That IS NOT relevant on a forum discussing John Leech's performance as an MP. Of course he hasn't voted to invade Iraq, and he isn't part of the executive, but then neither was Keith Bradley and he voted against the Iraq war (that was another little lie John Leech told during his election campaign). Yes the reasons for Keith Bradley losing are relevant when the discussion is focussed on that issue, but in general a response to a comment about John Leech wasting tax payers money by claiming his allowance as a councillor and having a full time salary as an MP (for instance) that focuses on the Labour government/Tony Blair is no appropriate.
4. Yes Peter, we've all heard you. You are disappointed with some of the decisions that this government has taken. We all are. I am disappointed that we have variable top-up fees, that we have stupid restrictions about where we can protest in Westminster, that we still have a minimum wage that discriminates against young people.
However, for me, those negatives are massively outweighed by the positives that this Labour government has delivered. Without this government (alongside a stable and well managed economy, though I'll avoid the argument about whether that would have happened anyway), we wouldn't have had the funding for school pupil's in England double since 1997, we wouldn't have a national minimum wage (remember, the Lib Dems opposed that too), we wouldn't have 78,700 more nurses, 27,400 more doctors, we wouldn't have banned hand guns and anti-personnel mines, we wouldn't have free entry to all national museums and galleries, we wouldn't have free bus travel for over-60s, we wouldn't have smaller class sizes in our schools, we would still have hospital waiting lists of 18 months, not 18 weeks, and finally, we wouldn't have 700,000 children lifted out of relative poverty. To me this Labour government has made a massive difference to the country we live in. I'm not arguing that this should outweigh the negatives for you Peter (nor do I really want the same response you always give), but just think what a state this country would be in if we hadn't had a progressive party in power for the last 10 years.
