Last night results were precipitated by 11 years of the present government. They became very popular with a public sector that expanded at an unsustainable rate. Jobs for the boys and large, unafordable pay rises that they hoped would be funded by income tax from increased employment. Jobless munbers fell, in many cases by creating and fostering other categories to put them into, training, years at university on useless courses, sickness benifit and many more to hide the real figure of people not gainfully employed or taken from skilled jobs in the manufacturing industries and re employed as shelf stacking labourers but of course as their wages fell the income tax they paid reduced as well.
The housing market was encouraged to go mad plus the cost of fuel and utilities as they all boosted the rapidly emptying government coffers by stamp duty, inheritance tax and VAT. Nice pay rises for the public sector kept them voting for the government, expecting more of the same but the coffers were running dry, gold reserves sold of at a low rate.
Tony Blair deserted the ship at the best time before the wheels came off the cart, leaving Gordon to try to steer the crippled ship, now it is on a sandbank.
I have seen similar in industry where managers had an easy time and were popular with the workers by giving unafordable wage and conditions increases. What happened? The companies found that they were no longer competetive, closed and the managers and work force were on the scrap heap, this has been coming for years and I pity the party that has to pick up the pieces after the next election. Labour will breath a sigh of relief if they loose.

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Well what can you say, all these people on here complaining and saying they did not vote because “THEY ARE ALL THE SAME”, how do you know? try voting something other than Labour & Tory, the other parties are not in the two main parties because they want something different. If you do not vote you can not complain. get off you chair and do something!!!!!!!

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