mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The pre thatcher Tories weren't so bad, decent > fellows and not a few statesmen about it. > Even under Thatch there were a few capable bods > about, though it seems to have been a trend across > the political spectrum that their numbers are > thinning. That is so breathtakingly inaccurate that I almost refuse to believe you actually wrote that Piers. Perhaps you are too young to remember the three day working week under the Heath government or you fail to remember your political history. Jeez! Now as it goes I voted for Thatcher in '79 because at the time I thought it was the right vote. I remember the dustmens strikes and all the rubbish piling up on the street, the poverty and long dole queues etc etc but it was a vote that I very quickly came to regret and I refrained from voting again until 1997 when I voted for Tony Blair. Each time I've voted a new goverment has got in and each time I've been disappointed with the bastards in power. But never will I ever vote for Tories again ever. I'll be voting Green next time and if that is to the detriment or a plus to the Labour or Conservative parties then I really couldn't give a flying fcuk.